🗣️'We have no objections. It’s a nice tribute.' Charles_Leclerc's issue has been resolved and he will be able to don his GillesVilleneuve tribute helmet for the remainder of the F1 CanadianGP weekend ⬇️
Charles Leclerc has been given permission to use his Gilles Villeneuve tribute helmet in the Formula 1 Canadian GP after the late Ferrari legend’s family was"surprised" by its appearance.Leclerc revealed his special helmet design on social media on Friday, but he hadn’t told the Villeneuve family what he was planning to do.the helmet design is trademarked, and thus there were potential issues around the Italian team’s current sponsors being associated with it.
Villeneuve Sr’s image rights are controlled on behalf of the family by Jacques’s sister Melanie, and Leclerc called her on Friday evening to apologise for not alerting the family in advance. “Charles was very sweet about it,” Melanie told Autosport. “We have no objections. It’s a nice tribute.”Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-23, Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-23, Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-23"It was just a big surprise to see the helmet yesterday because nobody had called the family,” he told Autosport. “It's mainly my mother and my sister involved in that. So that was just a big shock.
"But then I chat with Charles and he said, 'Oh, sorry, I didn't think about it.' And then I think he talked with my sister and everything seems to be clean there.
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