Monaco & Indy special designs

This month will be busy with several special designs being painted for the Monaco F1 GP and the Indy 500 race. Lewis Hamilton will be wearing a new design for Monaco with a Casino theme, and special Indy designs are being painted for Dan Wheldon, Ernesto Viso, and Takuma Sato who is having a commemorative design commisioned by Lotus to celebrate their return to the Indy 500.

I'll be flying over for the Indy 500 race but there's a lot of paintwork to complete before then!

New Arai Iridium Visors

We have just taken delivery of genuine Arai iridium visors for the CK6, SK6, GP6s and GP6 models. They are in limited supply and available in red/gold, silver, blue and blue/green. They are available from our shop here.

Busy start to the race season

The pre-season is always a busy time of year but this year has been especially hectic. 3 new F1 drivers (Karun Chandhok, Paul Di Resta and Fairuz Fauzy) as well as lots of other new drivers has meant some long working hours and not many days off. It's been hard work and difficult to keep up but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!

New video

Autosport Show/Ginetta Awards

The Autosport Show was held last week at the Birmimgham NEC and we had helmets on show with several companies including a display on the Arai stand. It was a great showcase for our paintwork and a chance to meet friends, customers and some of Arai's drivers.

On Friday night some of the helmets were taken over to the Metropole Hotel where we had been invited to display some helmets at the Ginetta Cars awards night. A charity raffle in aid of Teenage Cancer was held after the presentation, so we donated a voucher for paintwork which was sold for an amazing £900!

New Arai junior karting helmet - CK6

The first batch of the new Arai CK6 arrived in early December and we had several to get painted for customers for Christmas. These were finished before Christmas but we couldn't show them here until now, as most of them were surprise presents!

Motorsport News Feature

Motorsport News visited the workshop a while ago and the feature they put together is in the Christmas issue which is in the shops now, you can view the whole article here. http://www.jlfdesigns.com/MN58-59.pdf