Senna, the legendary three-time world champion, wore the helmet racing for McLaren for much of the 1992 season, including at Spa-Francorchamps where he famously helped rescue an unconscious driver after a crash.<\/p>\n
Ligier driver \u00c9rik Comas credits Senna with saving his life after the Brazilian stopped on track, cut off the car’s engine and held Comas’ head until paramedics arrived following a shunt in practice.<\/p>\n
The helmet features Senna\u2019s signature yellow, green, and blue design, was made by Japanese manufacturer Shoei\u00a0RM Sotheby\u2019sEditor’s Picks<\/p>\n
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While Senna finished fourth in a 1992 championship dominated by Williams’ Nigel Mansell, he still solidified his status as one of the F1 greats with three race wins and the ultimate act of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n
The helmet, featuring Senna’s signature yellow, green, and blue design, was made by Japanese manufacturer Shoei and sold at auction online by Sotheby’s between April 23-28. It was a custom, lightweight version of the X-4 model, weighing 100 to 200 grams less than the standard.<\/p>\n
Before Leclerc’s auction, the previous helmet record was \u00a3139,100 ($186,551) for another Senna helmet — from the 1990 season — sold in 2019.<\/p>\n
Senna tragically passed away in a crash at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 29, 2025, 10:44 AM ET The helmet worn by Ayrton Senna during one of his most iconic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-61464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114423902123241705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}