I always wondered if there was a correlation between brand of race helmet worn, and the hastening of male pattern baldness. Whether the sloping angle of the forehead to the top of the head padding and its potential rubbing over time might adversely affect the hair follicles.

Genuinely been thinking about trying to write an article on it for years.

But how do you approach somebody, let alone a racing driver with a stereotypically fragile ego, and ask what they think brought on their receding hairline?

Oh boy. There’s a lot of very serious folks taking this all far too seriously for something which, by its very nature, quite clearly wasn’t very serious.