Alex Albon Leaves the Internet Teary-Eyed With What Could’ve Been An Ode to Super Mash Up “Valentino Daniel Ricciardo Rossi”

Alex Albon sat out in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix. This gave Nyck de Vries a chance to showcase his talent, and it paid off. However, Albon’s absence deprived us of another great helmet design paying tribute to one of the greatest racing legends in the history of motorsport.

Albon was diagnosed with appendicitis during the Italian Grand Prix weekend at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. That meant that the Thai-British driver could not take part in the race. But recently, he revealed the lid he was going to don for the occasion on Instagram.

Alex Albon’s IG post was captioned, “Looking back to my favorite race helmet that wasn’t actually raced due to appendicitis but still technically a race helmet 🪖 Tribute to my childhood hero Valentino Daniel Ricciardo Rossi!”

Seeing this, fans stormed to Instagram and Twitter to share their reactions.

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The Helmet design was a nod to Valentino Rossi’s famous helmet design. As it turns out, even Ricciardo was going to don a similar helmet, but McLaren chose not to go ahead with it due to the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II. Let’s take a look at just a few of the fan reactions to Albon’s post.

One fan commented on Instagram, “This is awesome 👌 you gotta use it next year.” While another swooned over the helmet design, “Stop🥺 this has cured my sickness.”

Fans were also very forthcoming with their suggestions, as one fan said, “use this next year as a tribute to both daniel and rossi.” 

All in all, fans were ruing Albon’s missed opportunity. “The fact this didn’t get a race is a crime.”

“Pls use that design again, it’s to good never to be seen on traxk.” Fans couldn’t get enough of Albon’s tribute lid. “Pls run this next year at Monza.”

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Fans also stormed Twitter to share their reactions.

That being said, fans also took the opportunity to react to Ricciardo‘s helmet design for the Italian GP.

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Should Alex Albon make this a permanent design in 2023?