Cambriano, Italy
“Pininfarina has a long and successful history in the automotive design sector, which is why the partnership with Roux came naturally to us,” states Paolo Trevisan, Head of Design for Pininfarina.
“The resulting helmet line exemplifies how both companies are committed to designing revolutionary products and working to transform the industry.”
Now, the designers and the manufacturer have teamed up for a new line of helmets that come in two styles—one style is for closed-cockpit racers while the other one for the open cockpit.
The helmets won a recent 2020 Good Design® Award from The Chicago Athenaeum.
The two revolutionary, cutting-edge, racing helmet designs push both aesthetic and technological boundaries where luxury and safety can go together.
Pininfarina knows luxury design when it comes to transportation. There’s no question about this detail because we’ve featured a number of Pininfarina-designed vehicles. It’s almost synonymous with luxury product design and engineering.
Known as Cool-X technology, this system is used to recirculate water from a CoolShirt cooler.
The goal is that it keeps a 52-degree water flowing which is considered perfect-temperature.
The water then circulates through the helmet to keep the heat stress low. Simply put, the system “cools” the helmet so a racer won’t be uncomfortable while racing.
The open-cockpit helmet boasts removable aerodynamic spoilers that may be good for Formula 4 to Formula 1.
Meanwhile, the closed-cockpit GT helmet also comes with the said water-cooling system.
If those are not enough to convince you to spend that much for a helmet, know that it has an audio system with noise-canceling and speaker pods.
Pininfarina ROUX Helmets
Designers: Pininfarina SpA
Manufacturer: Roux Helmets
