F1 News dated 7 December 1994. End of season special with cover star Michael Schumacher having won his first driver's championship. 8 race wins compared to 7 for Damon Hill and it came after a controversial season finisher in Australia.
One of my favourite Formula One quotes was when Martin Brundle (at least I think it was him) in a television interview was talking about the finale and said Hill should have treated Schumacher's car "like the back legs of an angry donkey".
Clockwise from around the main Schumacher image we have Nigel Mansell guest starring in a Williams Renault, Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger (the only driver to win a race that year other than Schumacher and Hill), Schumacher again, Pedro Lamy (pink helmet with the Sega Logo), Mika Hakkinen and Hill.
Lamy seems like an odd choice for the cover. He only entered four races that year for the Lotus team when a testing accident left him with serious leg injuries. He was still recovering at the time this issue was published but did make a brief return to F1 the following year. Pink wasn't a common choice for F1 driver helmets but would have been a blessing to commentators who could easily distinguish him from his team-mate. Apparently the colour was chosen in tribute to his father who frequently wore pink shirts. 10 years later, F1 driver Jenson Button also wore a pink helmet in a one-off race as tribute to his late father who, again, liked to wear pink shirts.