Image from court documents Niki Lauda's Helmet Will Return to Italy Thanks to This Am Law 100 Firm
"Our strategy was straightforward: we owned the helmet," said Ed Patricoff, who represented Dainese.
October 18, 2024 at 03:58 PM
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What You Need to Know
- A 40 year mystery has been solved.
- Dainese received a Bonhams press release about the Lauda Helmet's upcoming auction at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.
- This week the two companies have reached a settlement. Next Thursday the helmet will go back to Italy and be placed in the DAR - Dainese ARchivio, the Dainese museum in Vicenza, Italy.
After a nearly 40-year mystery, Niki Lauda's helmet was found, and it will be returned to the company that designed it.
Dainese and Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers reached a settlement regarding Lauda's helmet, which the driver was wearing during the horrifying crash at the F1 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on Aug. 1, 1976. Dainese is an Italian company and the successor by merger of AGV, the company that designed the helmet.
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