Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s Justin Wilson is auctioning off the helmet he used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 to raise money for two charities supported by his No. 22 Team Z-Line Designs race team.
.Wilson’s helmet, inspired by Wilson the Volleyball from the movie “Cast Away,” is being sold on online auction site eBay with proceeds benefitting Racing for Kids, which uses the popularity of motorsports to focus public attention and funding on the health care needs of children, and Operation Helmet, which provides free helmet upgrade kits to servicemen deployed overseas.
“For the Indy 500, most drivers want to do something special with the paint scheme on their helmet, ” Wilson said. “My idea started when Will Power kept shouting “WILSON!” at me like Tom Hanks with his volleyball in “Cast Away.” So I decided to paint the top of my helmet like a volleyball.
(Helmet painter) Michael Corby and I then went down to Riley Children’s Hospital and had some of the children put their hands in paint then put it on the helmet, and it came out great. ”
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