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Verstappen’s Special Helmet for the 2026 São Paulo GP
123Helmets Editorial Team
Max Verstappen’s São Paulo special helmet was shared by Red Bull Racing ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix, with the team describing a splash of green and yellow.
Key Takeaways
Red Bull Racing shared a special edition helmet for Max Verstappen.
The post links the design to São Paulo and the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Verstappen’s own photos show painted tropical leaves and a big-cat face drawn on the crown.
What Red Bull Racing revealed
Red Bull Racing revealed a special edition helmet for Max Verstappen for the Brazilian Grand Prix in São Paulo. The team announced it on social media with the words “A splash of green and yellow for São Paulo” and said it was loving the special edition lid.
The post is tagged #F1 and #BrazilGP, which ties the design to the Brazilian round of the 2026 season.
What the helmet looks like
Verstappen showed the helmet in full on his own Instagram account on 3 November, with the caption “Bringing some samba to São Paulo”. The shell is a Schuberth, with the name printed at the rear, and the colours are those of Brazil: a white crown band, yellow on the sides and the lower rear, and dark blue side panels covered with tropical leaves painted in brush strokes of green, yellow and blue.
The crown carries the main drawing. Inside an oval ringed by thin green and yellow lines, a white line drawing shows a roaring big-cat face with bared fangs and a jagged mane, with the chevron of his Verstappen logo on its forehead, filled with the same leaf painting. Around it, the white band carries “Heineken®”, a red star and the blue “-0.0-” lettering of Heineken 0.0 on both sides.
On the sides, a large red Red Bull bull charges over a yellow sun disc above the red “Red Bull” lettering, with Ford Racing, Mobil 1 and VISA near the visor and “MAXVERSTAPPEN” on the lower side. At the rear, his number 3 sits at the top, above four small gold stars marked 21, 22, 23 and 24 for his four world titles and his MV logo in green with “VERSTAPPEN.COM”. The visor is a dark iridescent blue in the photos.
What we know and what is still open
Verstappen.com added close-up photos on 6 November with the words “São Paulo, this brand new helmet will be with you shortly”. Neither post says who designed or painted the helmet. The São Paulo Grand Prix is round 20 of the season, at Interlagos, with the race on Sunday 8 November 2026.
A full-size 1:1 display replica of this design is now open for pre-order, and his other helmets are in Max Verstappen’s collection.
Pre-order the São Paulo helmet replica
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