NASCAR drivers wears badass 'Star Wars' helmet
While NASCAR fans will be focused on Sunday's big Daytona 500 race, a driver on Saturday got plenty of love for his badass helmet.
Brennan Poole drove Saturday's Powershares QQQ 300 while wearing a helmet painted to resemble Luke Sywalker's headgear from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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The helmet, designed by BEAMdesigns, comes complete with Rebel insignia and even smudges meant to look like wear and tear. It's pretty awesome.
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For his part, Poole seemed pretty excited about the helmet, too.
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Despite the bevy of jokes that would have rained down had Poole won the race -- "He completed the race in less than 12 parsecs!" -- Poole finished a disappointing 26th after being knocked out by an accident.
But he's still got that badass helmet, so that's something.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
