GP4: 2022 Japanese GP helmets (part 1)

Hey there racefans. This update is a significant milestone for me, because there are now 100 helmets in the 2022 season pack. I thought I'd make a release whilst I finish off the other Japanese GP helmets. 

Lewis Hamilton

2022 Lewis Hamilton Japanese GP helmet

Lewis showed up in Japan with this bright helmet designed by Takashi Murakami, with whom he has collaborated with a range of clothing as well. Murakami's trademark flower smiley has been repeated in this rainbow coloured design. For this, I decided to make my own flower smiley so I could easily change the colours and fill the helmet. 

2022 George Russell Japanese GP helmet

Another race, and another new lid for Russell, who has gone another shade of blue for this design, with the darker navy blue and lots of plusses. Note for this race that he runs a clear winged helmet, although it should be compatible with the solid wing shape if you choose to run that. 

Yuki Tsunoda

2022 Yuki Tsunoda Japanese GP helmet

It's no surprise that the Japanese driver had a new lid for his first home race. Yuki actually ran a competition and this design by Hiromi Nagaoka was painted by Woodeye. This features koi fish and sakura blossoms, as well traditional Japanese style waves. 

Sergio Perez

2022 Sergio Perez Japanese GP helmet

Checo's helmet for the Japanese GP now has a Japanese style twist to his usual design by MDM. White and red colours now abound, with subtle tones of sakura blossoms and turning the Red Bull logo into the rising sun. A really nice design, but it's a shame it's got very similar colours to Max's regular helmet. 

Sebastian Vettel

2022 Sebastian Vettel Japanese GP helmet

Last, but certainly not least, we have another Vettel helmet designed by JMD. This one is made to look like the Arai box in which the helmets arrive in. So there's a small cardboard hole/handle on the top, as well as the sticky labels and warning texts. My favourite part is the German flag is meant to be like parcel tape, so there's little subtle ripples to give it a 3D, and slightly transparent effect, with tears on either end. 

Thanks for all those who have supported me and motivated me to continue with all these helmets. It wasn't always the plan to commit to doing them all, in fact I was going to cut back this year. Without Jvinu's helmets and templates, these helmets would simply not exist, so my thanks goes to him, and to those who convert them and use them in other games. 

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GP4: 2022 Singapore GP helmets part 1

After a couple of prolonged breaks, the Grand Prix are coming thick and fast and I'm trying to keep up with the various helmet designs. I'm releasing a batch of helmets now, knowing I have a few to go, but I hope you enjoy these ones. 

Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso 2022 Singapore GP helmet

I like Fernando's simple but effective helmets. This one has a relatively simple design, but the curves are not too easy to replicate with where the seams are on the mapping. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the result of this, the helmet combining some of the traditional colours of Nando's helmets along with the BWT branding. 

Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc 2022 Singapore GP helmet

A return to Punk Paradise, having run a similar design at the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP, though it was glittery red then. Thankfully I could recycle some of that helmet on this year's gold edition. A reasonably strong weekend for Charles in this lid. 

George Russell

George Russell 2022 Singapore GP helmet

As we no longer have a Malaysian GP, Singapore is now the closest to Petronas HQ. George ran a Petronas coloured version of his helmet, as they announced an extension of the Petronas and Mercedes partnership. Sadly, it was a bit of a forgetful weekend for the young Brit.

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel 2022 Singapore GP helmet

Vettel ran this helmet, the black is meant to absorb 99% of light, making the rainbow stand out even more. The helmet is a blended gradient which could have been an issue on the seams, but thankfully I got it to match pretty well. 

Alex Albon

Alex Albon 2022 Singapore GP helmet

Last, but not least, we have Albon's helmet designed by kids from a Thai orphanage. I believe this helmet will get auctioned after the race to raise money. The helmet features various cartoons of the kids from the orphange at the top, the Buddist elephant on the sides, and a huge smile at the front. Albon is pictured at the back, with the boy on the left sporting a Liverpool FC top, my home town. It was remarkable that Albon made it back to the cockpit for this race, sadly it wasn't his best showing, although it was still miles better than Goatifi. I enjoyed recreating this one. 

These are made to fit Jvinu's helmets, utilising his templates for which I'm am ever grateful, and of course these helmets are compatible whereever ACSPRH helmets have been made. 

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GP4: British GP and Austrian GP helmets

I've managed to catch up with the majority of the helmets now, I'm still working on Vettel's British GP helmet, but here's a selection of what's been added to the latest pack. 

Sergio Perez

Sergio Perez 2022 Austrian GP helmet

First up is Sergio Perez's Austrian GP helmet. Designed by MDM Designs, the helmet is mostly red and white, in line with the Austrian flag, home of Red Bull. It also features in shiny version of the Red Bull statue that's at the circuit. In the end I had to recreate that part manually and I'm quite happy with the result. 

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen 2022 Austrian GP helmet

Max continues his tradition of running special helmets at the Red Bull Ring. This time it's blue and yellow. Designs of the helmet, by KV Designs, was revealed quite early in the week, so I was able to get a head start on this. It also features reflective background pattern. 

George Russell

George Russell 2022 British GP helmet

This helmet is part of the Super Human/Evolution NFT range, and coincides with the specially painted rear wing of the car. Designed by MBSJQ who also designed various posters, one of which I was able to use as part of the helmet design. I couldn't find any particularly clear pictures of the rear of the helmet, so I've left it plain for now. 

Please Note: that Russell used a clear wing for this helmet, so the normal winged version will look unfinished. The shapes are included for GP4. 

George Russell 2022 Austrian GP helmet

Back to another MDM Designs helmet, it's not entirely clear to me if he's going to run this lid for the rest of the season or not. Anyway, with it being blue, he's much more distinguishable from Hamilton's car. The helmet is still his standard 2022 design, although the 63 logo has changed. Sadly for Russell, two special helmets, and two disappointing Grand Prix making two uncharacteristic mistakes. 

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel 2022 Azerbaijan GP helmet

Vettel has tended to run his special helmets on Friday's now, opting to stay fairly consistent (for him at least) on the helmet's he's using for the race. In practice he ran a Fridays' For Future based helmet which contains various protest slogans. At the race, he ran his standard helmet with this MNP peace logo on it. 

As I said above, Vettel's Happy Birthday helmet which he ran in the race at the British Grand Prix is still in my workshop. Until it's complete, I can present to you his Austrian GP lid. 

Sebastian Vettel 2022 Austrian GP helmet

Seb ran the bee logo at last year's Austrian GP, so that saved me some time in putting this one together. Although the lines kind of look straight from side on, it looks circular from the front and back. So it wasn't quite so straight forward and took a bit of time to get that right. 

I notice that Theofilos has released an excellent version here: https://www.racedepartment.com - but being a lover of black and yellow designs, I had to create my own version. 

Lando Norris

Lando Norris 2022 British GP helmet

Lando appear at his home race with a neon effect helmet, with his usual design in a textured chrome. I enjoyed trying to recreate the chrome effect, that was a new skill learned on my part. 

Charles Leclerc

Sorry, no previews for this one, because Charles Leclerc has returned to his pre-season helmet for the British GP as well as using it for the Austrian GPs sprint race. He ran a clear wing during pre-season, so I've done a proper winged version with a slightly different No War logo from the GPDA. 

I've included a config file where drivers have run previous 'special helmets' at subsequent races, so that's been updated to Austria. 

I hope you enjoy this update. I continue to be indebted to Jvinu's helmet shapes and templates. As always, the helmets are free to be converted to other ACSPRH compatible games, just include me in the credits. 

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GP4: 2022 Helmets - 18 helmets completed

I hope you're excited for the first race of the 2022 season. 

I've got seven more helmets completed and I'm happy to share them with you. 

Haas

Mick Schumacher

2022 Mick Schumacher helmet

Here is Mick Schumacher's standard launch helmet. He did experiment with an alternative sparkly version in testing, and it looks like he'll use the updated design for the first few races. He's back to yellow and green, displayed prominently at the front and the top, but he's gone black and blue at the rear, something he did at the Abu Dhabi GP at the end of last year. 

Kevin Magnussen

2022 Kevin Magnussen helmet

After taking part in the pre-season test at short notice, it wasn't much of a surprise that he wore his 2020 lid. I wasn't sure whether he'd have time to get a new one for the season, evidently not. I was able to use Jvinu's excellent 2020 helmet as a guide to create my own. There's not many pictures of it yet, so this may get updated as more photos appear. 

Mercedes

George Russell

2022 George Russell helmet

George Russell decided against a predominantly red helmet, he says that look belongs to Michael Schumacher. He's adopted more black with flashes of red and blue. The helmet follows a similar design to his previous helmet. I was worried how easily distinguishable this would be from Hamilton's helmet on TV, but then Lewis now has a bright yellow helmet. What you can't see on the previews is that there are metallic/glittery reflective parts of his helmet, so it's not all plain black, but it will show up more prominently in game. 

Red Bull

Sergio 'Checo' Perez

2022 Sergio Perez helmet

Sergio Perez is also running a similar design from last year, full of bright colours. There's more aztec inspired patterns subtly placed around the helmet, and the Mexican flag on top. He did have yellow parts, at the launch, at the front of his helmet, but in testing they turned blue on one side, and red on the other. Where the sponsors are on top of Red Bull logo on the side, I usually try and avoid making sponsors go over the seam on the texture to save time, but I've decided to take the plunge this year and try and spend a bit more time trying to line it all up seamlessly. 

Alpine

Esteban Ocon

2022 Esteban Ocon helmet

Ocon's helmet is quite a simple design, but it's got a subtle honeycomb pattern on the side and top, and the deeper red is also reflective and glittery. In testing, the French flag had reflective Alpine logos, but I've stuck with his launch helmet for now. A nice, bold, striking helmet for the Frenchman. 

Fernando Alonso

2022 Fernando Alonso helmet

With Alpine running a special pink livery for the first few races, Alonso has a special helmet to go with it. Personally I'm hoping he'll return to his familiar colours soon. 

Aston Martin

Nico Hulkenberg

2022 Nico Hulkenberg helmet

Super sub, Nico Hulkenberg at least had time to pick up his helmet rather than scrounging around for a spare plain helmet as he did in 2020. This was his 2021 reserve helmet where some logos had to be taped over and new sponsors put in their place. Again, there's not a huge amount of photos of it around yet, so there may be an updated version in the future. Again I have to thank Jvinu for his 2020 version that helped me a lot in lining things up. 

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The remaining 3 helmets are a bit more complex and will take time to complete. On top of that, the Ferrari drivers have appeared with painted wings (they ran transparent ones in testing), and it looks like Leclerc's got subtle maroon added to his helmet. Hamilton and Gasly have run bold new colours on their helmets, whilst Albon wore the blue helmet in FP1 and his white helmet in FP2. Anyway, I won't have any time to mod for the next week or two, so the next update may be some time away. I'll return soon to complete the set. 

GP4: Final batch of 2021 helmets

A Happy New Year to all of you.

I never envisioned at the beginning of 2021 that I would end up doing as many helmets as I did. I'm grateful that there are other authors who have released fantastic content to supplement it. Having been a mere novice at Photoshop before, I'm growing in confidence in what I can do, and that's in part pushing myself to produce more and more complicated helmets. Some have come off better than others, I must admit, but this final batch are amongst my best work this season, that's the way that it should be I guess. I've added 9 new helmets for you in this batch of releases.

Valterri Bottas

2021 Valterri Bottas Abu Dhabi Helmet

First up, we have Valterri Botta's helmet for his final race at Mercedes. I've actually enjoyed recreating all of his designs this year, all done by his girlfriend. This one features a messages of thanks in different languages, some career highlights, a number of photos from his achievements with the team, as well as a fitting tribute to Niki Lauda on the back, and a nod to teammate Lewis Hamilton. The top is full of stock art, which I was able to track down was by Anastasia Vintovkina. I even had to mix two fonts together to make up the Danke Mercedes text. 

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Charles Leclerc

2021 Charles Leclerc Abu Dhabi GP helmet

This is another busy helmet. I started off by creating a glittery background, and there was just about enough photos for me to recreate the design, with messages of love, the prancing horse of Ferrari and his own name repeated on the top. It was a pleasant enough helmet to make and I think it looks really nice in game. 

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Lando Norris

2021 Lando Norris US GP helmet

Two Lando Norris helmets for you. This one is back from the US GP. It looks simple, but with the moon and rust backgrounds, I struggled at the time at the seams. It's not perfect still, but close enough not to notice it. I'm quite pleased with the final result and to get it done, as this was plaguing me sitting in my to do list for a while. 

2021 Lando Norris Abu Dhabi GP Helmet

I was expecting this helmet, which shines and reflects in different ways and in different colours, to be near impossible. But I found a close match to the pattern that Norris used, and I managed to quite quickly put his design together again, I managed to use some of the techniques I've learned this year to put this together. It looks great in GP4, working well with the alpha channels that adds another element to this helmet. In the end, it didn't take as long as I feared, and I'm pleased with the result. 

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George Russell

2021 George Russell Abu Dhabi GP Helmet

George Russell, in his final race with Williams, had a plain helmet, along with a new visor strip promoting the new King's Man film, where the team members were able to sign messages directly onto it. Because I did a similar task with Norris's British GP helmet earlier this year, I knew just how to go about this one. All the messages are true to the real lid, although there's a few I had to get creative on placement. The blue also twinkles a bit in the lights. Again, not as bad as I feared, again I'm pleased with the result. 

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Mick Schumacher

2021 Mick Schumacher US GP helmet

Two helmets for Mick Schumacher. Like Lando's US helmet, it was hanging over me for the last few races. I attempted to recreate it directly from photos, but there was no good picture of the right side. In the end, after much searching, I found the correct wood stained Texan flag. I also found a close match to the floral embossing. It was just then finding a good match to the rust background, there's three different layers going on there, and I managed to recreate the helmet entirely. From fearing I couldn't do it, I'm really glad I can tick this off, as it was a challenge, but I'm glad it's done and representative of the real thing. 

2021 Mick Schumacher Abu Dhabi GP helmet

Mick went all blue for the final race, with each star representing one member of the Haas staff. The placing of the stars was probably the most complicated thing about this helmet, a fairly easy recreation compared to some of the others in this batch of releases. 
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Max Verstappen

I wanted to commemorate Max's first World Championship by making up his helmet. He's driven absolutely brilliantly all year, and he's made less obvious mistakes to Lewis, and though I felt he was over aggressive at times, it doesn't take away from the achievement of beating a 7-times World Champion in probably the marginally better car, to his first World Championship. 

2021 Max Verstappen US GP Helmet

I had his template for his helmet mocked up from his previous liveries, so it wasn't too much trouble to recolour it to his regular design, and add one a few parts. In the US GP, the team ran with Acura branding instead of Honda, so that's all that's different with this helmet really. 

2021 Max Verstappen Abu Dhabi GP Helmet

Max had a thank you Honda logo put onto the back of his helmet for this weekend. He ran it in practice and qualifying, but ran his regular lid in the race. Anyway, I felt it justified it's own helmet, and as I say it's my tribute to his Championship success. 

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GP4: 5 car liveries and 14 special helmets released

Wow it's been a long season and 22 races later and we've completed the season. Christmas is now around the corner, and I've got lots of goodies for you, all free as usual. Although, if you appreciate the work and you're feeling generous, there is a donate button.There's still more to do, but this is likely the last chance I'll get to do any modding before Christmas. 

Car Liveries

Williams FW43B

Williams FW43B 2021 Saudi Arabian GP livery

Williams FW43B 2021 Saudi Arabian GP livery

First up is the Williams livery from the Turkish GP and the Saudi Arabian GP. They ran the Turkish GP livery for most of the tail end of the season. Sadly, Frank Williams passed away on the week leading up to the inaugural race in Jeddah and all teams ran with Frank Williams tributes, a logo from the original team. The halo also includes a quote from the film Top Gun, a favourite of Frank's. 

I will update the Abu Dhabi livery soon, but until then, enjoy the Saudi Arabian GP livery. 

Alpine Liveries

Alpine Qatar 2021 GP livery

Alpine ran with a green rear end at the Saudi Arabian GP, which was to commemorate 100 races with Castrol as the fuel supplier, formerly known as Renault. This dates back to the 1997 season where Jacques Villeneuve won the title in a Williams powered by Renault at the time. 

This livery is included, as well as the US GP livery where they changed the main logos to Mandiant. 

It also includes the Abu Dhabi livery, where they retained the green, but put the Alpine logo back on it. It also includes 'El Plan' on the rear wing. 

The original work was done by Excalibur and Hega from RSCT, all I've done is amend the livery slightly. 

Special Helmets

I feel like there's a mountain of helmets yet to do, but there's quite a few completed so far. I'm not doing them in any particular order, generally I'm picking off the easier ones first. As always, I'm indebted to Jvinu for the shapes and templates available on his blog. It means these helmets are compatible with ACSPRH helmets in other games. 

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel 2021 Mexican GP helmet

Here's Seb's Mexican GP helmet. Because of the nature of the helmet, the majority of this helmet is created from photos rather than painted, it was the only way for me to be happy with how the helmet looked in the end.

Sebastian Vettel 2021 Saudi Arabian GP helmet

In Saudi Arabia, Vettel was promoting his own political message, supporting equal treatment of women, particularly in motorsports. The world map is now reminiscent of a train map, which has glow in the dark sections in. That's not exactly possible in GP4, but I have given them as shiny alpha channels as I could to try and replicate the effect. 

Sebastian Vettel 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet

Also included in this pack is the Abu Dhabi helmet, which features various phrases that is close to Vettel's heart.

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Valterri Bottas

Valterri Bottas 2021 Brazilian GP helmet

Here is Valterri's coffee inspired helmet, designed once more by his girlfriend. This helmet went through various iterations during its creation, in the end I found most of the source pictures, which I had to carefully place on a sparkly base. I'm quite pleased with the alpha channel and reflections on this helmet too. 

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Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc 2021 Saudi Arabian GP helmet

Charles ran an amended version of his white helmet in Saudi Arabia, adding several red triangular lines and other subtle changes. 

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George Russell

George Russell 2021 Saudi Arabian GP helmet

In addition to the car running tributes to Frank Williams, Russell ran this rather simple yet striking helmet design that looks great with the car. 
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Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo 2021 Qatar GP helmet

It was almost not worth doing a preview of this helmet, but it's the same as the Qatar GP only with updated logos on the visor strip. Other than that, the helmet is the same. 

Daniel Ricciardo 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet

In Abu Dhabi, the shiny helmet became glittery. Quite a lot of the helmet has been re-coloured and the alpha layer is completely different. Both helmets are included in the pack. 
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Carlos Sainz

Carlos Sainz Jnr 2021 Abu Dhabi GP Helmet

Carlos began the season with a glittery version of his standard helmet, and he's done the same again at the season finale, except the sparkly bits are on the opposite parts of his helmet to the Bahrain version. Also the base colour of the helmet shines between purple, blue and even yellow in some shots. Out of all the sparkly helmets so far, this one is my personal favourite that I've created so far. 
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Lance Stroll

Lance Stroll 2021 Abu Dhabi GP 100th Race helmet

This was Lance Stroll's 100th GP and he ran with an amended helmet livery with a special 100 Races logo added. It's also a glittery helmet with the Maple Leaf and the Wings now a very reflective green. 
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Yuki Tsunoda

Yuki Tsunda 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet 'Thank you Honda'

I thought Yuki had finished updating his helmet for the year, but he rocked up at the final race with this helmet, with colours amended to reflect more of the Japanese red and white in tribute to Honda's final race in F1. All of Honda's era's in F1 are marked on the top strip. There's shots of two of his helmets painted side by side, and the grafitti is different on both of them. Anyway, out of all the grafitti designs he's worn all year, I'm happiest with how this one turned out in particular. 
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Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet

I quietly released the first iteration of this helmet that Sir Lewis has worn at all the Middle-Eastern rounds, but the season finale saw him wear a sparkly version of it. Generally speaking, it's not gone well with drivers who have worn special helmet designs going into title deciders (Max's lid carried a small thank you to Honda on it, so that doesn't really count), so I guess that trend continues.  

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Antonio Giovinazzi

Antonio Giovinazzi 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet

In the final race of the popular Italian, Antonio ran a tribute livery for his team-mate, Kimi Raikonnen, who is also leaving the team, in a design inspired by Kimi's 2007 Championship winning helmet. Nice, simple, effective and I certainly think it's Kimi's helmet before remembering it's actually Antonio's lid. 

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Kimi Raikkonen

Kimi Raikkonen 2021 Abu Dhabi GP helmet

Kimi ran his first proper special helmet of the year, this one inspired by his first helmet some 20 years ago when he drove for Sauber. The helmet also carries a message of thanks on the rear. 

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I hope you enjoy this bumper release edition. Until the next post, I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas.