1991 Mario Andretti Signed Bell AFX1 Newman Haas Racing IndyCar Replica Helmet

Beautiful Mario Andretti replica professionally painted on a real Bell AFX1 helmet. Since the helmet was photographed, it has since been hand signed by Mario Andretti on May 20th 2024 in Indianapolis. 

The incomparable Mario Andretti is the only driver in history to have won the Indianapolis 500 (1969), the Daytona 500 (1967) and a Formula One World Championship (1978), and he is in select company with many other motorsports accomplishments.

The patriarch of the famous Andretti racing family, Andretti won four IndyCar Championships (three under the USAC banner, one with CART), and is the sport’s record-holder for career starts (407), poles (67), laps led (7,595), second-place finishes (56) and podium finishes (144).

Andretti’s victory in the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix stands as the last F1 race won by an American driver, and he and Juan Pablo Montoya are the only drivers to have competed in NASCAR, F1 and the Indianapolis 500.

Andretti remains second only to A.J. Foyt in career IndyCar wins (with 52), with 24 of those coming from pole position.

Andretti scored his first IndyCar race win in 1965 — at Indianapolis Raceway Park — and later that year started a streak of seven consecutive poles that carried over into the 1966 season, all in his Dean Van Lines entry. Andretti would go on to win the USAC National Championship (today known as the IndyCar Championship) in his first two seasons, 1965 and 66, and would add two more titles in 1969 and 1984.

This helmet would make nice edition to anyone’s Indycar collection.

The helmet comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.