Stylishly Taking the Racetrack With Alpinestars
Danica Patrick's racing suit by Alpinestars
Any suit of armor is bulky; however the Italian active sports and fashion brand Alpinestars spent the past few years with the mission of making auto-racing suits stylish.
Some of the results were put on display April 8 at the Phantom Galleries in Long Beach, Calif., where the Formula Drift races took place on the weekend of April 9–10. Alpinestars keeps its U.S. headquarters in Torrance, Calif., and it sometimes put an industrial, sleek look on the colorful suits of race champions Danica Patrick, Fernando Alonso and Jimmie Johnson, which hung in the gallery.
While the suits looked sleek on the outside, inside they were packed with heat- and flame-resistant fiber Nomex and sometimes Kevlar to insure driver safety. Also on the weekend, April 9, Alpinestars debuts a motorcycle suit equipped with internal airbags for that added layer of protection on the race track, according to a spokesman for the company.
Fernando Alonso's racing suit by Alpinestars
Alpinestars' Supertech stock suit, available to consumers for $1,699 retail
