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Bearman’s Karting Throwback Helmet for São Paulo 2026
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Oliver Bearman’s karting throwback helmet for the 2026 São Paulo Grand Prix brings his old silver, yellow and blue design back to life. The Haas driver shared the new lid on Instagram, holding it next to the original karting helmet.
Key Takeaways
Bearman’s São Paulo helmet follows the lines of his old karting design, with the same silver, yellow and blue.
Both helmets carry his “O.B.” initials.
Bearman thanked Lucky Design for helping bring the design back to life.
What Bearman’s throwback helmet looks like
The new helmet is a Bell with a mirror-like chrome silver base, chrome blue and fluorescent yellow panels cut in sharp, angular shapes. Thin fluorescent yellow and dark blue lines outline the panels, and a pattern of curved, swirling arcs with a holographic, glittering finish sits over the silver.
On the front, the Haas logo appears in black on a silver panel on the forehead, with “Haas Automation Inc.” on the white strip above a mirrored light-blue visor. The sides carry a large black Haas logo on fluorescent yellow, plus his “O.B.” initials and the Deus X logo on the silver lower panel.
How it echoes his karting helmet
The new design follows the old karting helmet’s layout: the same silver, yellow and blue, the same angular panels and the same “O.B.” initials. The old helmet, shown in the photos for comparison, also features Kosmic branding, an iridescent blue-green visor and “LUCKY DESIGN” on its visor strip.
Bearman posted six photos, including side-by-side pairs of an archive karting photo and the new helmet, and an archive photo showing him in a kart numbered 87.
What Bearman and Team OB said
Bearman called it “a really special ‘special’, going back to the old days” and thanked Lucky Design “for their help bringing back this beauty back to life”. He posted it on his own Instagram account on 5 November 2026.
The Team OB account linked the helmet to the Brazilian round, writing: “From the local kart tracks to São Paulo, he’s come a long way.” It also called the reveal “the ultimate throwback Thursday”. The São Paulo Grand Prix is round 20 of 2026, with the race at Interlagos on Sunday 8 November 2026. Bearman is in his third F1 season with Haas.
His other helmets are in the Oliver Bearman collection.
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