Tonio will pay respect to the victims of the earthquake that struck Japan’s northwest coast in March this year by wearing a special edition helmet in their honour at this year’s Japanese GP. This will be Tonio’s sixth special edition helmet provided by Kaos Design this year and is named “Embracing Japan”.

Tonio will be racing with a limited edition helmet design at the Japanese Grand Prix, with it serving as a dedication to the thousands who were affected by the country’s earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in March. After the Grand Prix, the helmet will be auctioned with the benefits going towards charity.

Tonio decided that he wanted to give a visible sign of his Italian character for his home race, the Italian GP. Therefore his friends of Kaos Design – who take care of his helmet design – presented him at Monza a helmet with with a very unusual look. This article is written by ‘Lucky’ of [...]

Tonio’s busy Monaco weekend already started on Tuesday, when he attended the F1 All Stars Soccer match in Monaco. The F1 All Star team plays several matches during the F1 season for charity and this match was set up for the benefit of AMADE (World Association of Childrens Friends), a Monaco-based association, which helps the [...]

As we exclusively reported on 29 November 2006, Tonio has made the switch from Arai helmets to the American helmet manufacturer Bell. His new helmet will be a Bell RS HP3 with a pure carbon shell. Besides that, it weighs 1295 grams and it’s the first helmet in the world to meet the new FIA [...]

For the second time this year Tonio tested the STR2 car, this time at the Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit. He covered 25 laps, with a fastest lap time of 1:36.345. This was almost five seconds slower than the Ferrari’s who topped the time sheets today. Tonio also tested a new Bell helmet for the second time [...]