Rossi unveils trendy Mexican Huichol art helmet

Bengaluru, November 28: The MotoGP season is over, winter tests also ended, but Valentino Rossi is still in the limelight!

The Italian great hit headlines last week by unveiling a new Aldo Drudi-designed helmet design at Mugello.

Rossi's latest design is set for pre-season MotoGP testing, which begins with a private Yamaha test at Sepang at the end of January.

It takes inspiration from Mexican Huichol art. The Huichol people, indigenous to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, are known for the bright colours and designs from which the rider from Tavullia has taken inspiration - and the results are spectacular.

"Huichol art immediately intrigued me, because it uses many of my symbols, like the sun and moon or the turtle," said Rossi, while posting a picture on Instagram.

Ecco il nuovo casco per i test invernali 2017-2018 ispirato all’arte Huichol,arte tradizionale Messicana composta da perline colorate.grazie ad Aldo Drudi e a tutta la Drudi performance per avere studiato le grafiche,e soprattutto grazie a @davidedegliinnocenti DID che ha disegnato col pennellino le perline una per una 😱🤓 @agvhelmets #agvrider

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"We've tried to recreate the effect of the beads that the Mexicans use to bring color and shape to these objects.

"The helmet looks really good, Aldo Drudi did a great job, as did Davide in particular - he created the beads with a brush, one by one. We might say that the helmet has become a work of art, something we've never seen before," added Rossi, who had finished fifth in the 2017 season which was won by Honda's Marc Marquez.