A new season means new helmet designs for the 20 participants in this year’s Formula 1 world championship. Or, if not new, slightly revised in many cases.
With racing getting underway once more in Bahrain this weekend, here is your yearly guide to the designs each of the drivers in this year’s field will be rocking in their cars.
While you can expect plenty of special designs during the year – especially around the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix in November – these are the typical styles you can expect to see of your favourite drivers this season.
Red Bull
Max Verstappen
“We used different colours to last year, with the red and blue,” Verstappen said of his 2023 design. “I have chosen to go for a bit of a more old-school design, with some small lines and without the glitter.
There are new brands present on Verstappen’s helmet, including the official F1 game’s producer EA Sports, but “the back of my helmet is quite slick and clean” still. The most important change is the addition of a second star to the design, to mark his second world championship title last year.
Sergio Perez
It’s another multi-coloured design from Perez, with a large use of yellow once again. His personal sponsors are present as usual, sharing the same spaces as on previous designs, and the base ‘colour’ is a grey pattern not unlike Red Bull’s famous test livery from 2015.
As ever, F1’s only Mexican driver proudly wears the flag of his nation on the crown of his helmet.
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Ferrari
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari describe this design as “same same, but different”, which is pretty accurate. The white stripes have been thinned out so there’s even more red than before, and the Ferrari logo sits large and proud above the visor. Team sponsors decorate the sides and keep to the red-and-white colour scheme.
Carlos Sainz Jnr
The Spanish flag theme continues in a very similar design to last year’s bar the white stripe going around the upper half of the lid being replaced by more black that begins from the top. Sainz’s number, 55, is still written in the yellow part of the helmet and once again in a difficult-to-read similar shade of yellow.
Mercedes
George Russell
Russell used to have a Niki Lauda-style all-red helmet, and switched to having a very dark – but not quite black –…
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