Our goal is to bring our customers’ wishes to life with the highest level of creativity and precision. Whether a Formula 1 driver or an amateur racer – a project is only complete when the customer is 100% satisfied. Almost 50 Formula 1 drivers have trusted JMD Helmet Designs. Since 2001, our designs have contributed to 12 Formula 1 World Championship titles. This makes us the most represented helmet design brand in the pinnacle of motorsport for over two decades. Drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen are among our clients. Our professional collaboration with drivers, teams and sponsors has made us a respected partner in the paddocks of the motorsport world. Behind JMD stands a strong team of motivated people. Our passion for motorsport and design drives us every day to deliver perfect results. Long-standing team members create a reliable and stable working culture – the foundation for maintaining the highest quality in Formula 1 helmet design, even under tight deadlines and major challenges.

Fernando Alonso

When Fernando Alonso expressed interest in working with us for the 2012 season, the JMD team was more than excited. After all, you don’t gain one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of our time as a client every day. As a passionate helmet collector, Fernando now owns an extensive collection that can be admired at the Museo Fernando Alonso.

Rubens Barrichello

During his time as Michael Schumacher’s teammate at Ferrari, Rubens Barrichello initially had to be convinced to work with JMD. Later in his career, however, we were able to inspire him with new colors and effects and enhance his traditional helmet design.

Nico Hülkenberg

Nico has been one of our clients since 2011 and completely changed his helmet design together with us. When he moved to Renault, we developed the current retro design together. The latest version in the black and yellow color combination was voted the most beautiful helmet on the grid in a FIA poll in 2018.

Felipe Massa

Felipe Massa is one of JMD’s most loyal clients. We have accompanied the Brazilian driver since his early days as a test driver at Scuderia Ferrari in 2003. We celebrated his “almost world championship” in the 2008 season and feared for his health after his accident during the Hungarian Grand Prix the following year. He is the second driver after Michael Schumacher for whom we have painted two farewell helmets. Even in Formula E, his helmet continues to feature the Brazilian colors painted by JMD.

Esteban Ocon

When the Force India F1 Team gained BWT as a new title sponsor for the 2017 season, not only the race car but also the entire driver outfit was branded in the company’s colors and logos. The flexibility of the JMD team was required to adapt Esteban’s helmet – originally a homage to Michael Schumacher’s classic red design – to the new branding within a very short time. Since then we have continued to collaborate.

Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel is one of the most likeable drivers in Formula 1, and it is always a pleasure for us to plan new projects together with him. For more than 10 years Daniel has been part of the JMD client family and his special helmets are often a talking point in the paddock. The Honey Badger graphic on his helmet was also designed by us and has since become his trademark.

Nico Rosberg

Nico has been a JMD client since 2005 and we accompanied him from his first Formula 1 race to his greatest successes. Initially using the colors of his father, his design evolved in 2012 – together with his wife Vivian – into the chrome/carbon look he kept until winning the Formula 1 World Championship in 2016.

Carlos Sainz Jr.

The son of multiple rally world champion Carlos Sainz came to JMD even before his Formula 1 career as a Red Bull Junior driver. For the past two years his helmet design has been developed in collaboration with the Spanish designer Dave Designs.

Timo Scheider

Even before Sebastian Vettel became known for regularly changing his helmet design, Timo Scheider served as a creative playground for our ideas. Apart from the basic layout, none of his more than 130 helmets since his Formula 3 days in 1997 have been identical. The color experiments continue even today after his active DTM career. Alongside René Rast he is one of our longest-standing clients.

Michael Schumacher

Working as a helmet designer for the pinnacle of motorsport is exciting enough, but when the current world champion contacted us in 2001 and asked about our work, a new chapter in JMD’s history began. Until his final race in 2012, we accompanied the career of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time with more than 500 painted helmets and four world championship titles. Working with him was just as professional as his racing career. Every detail of his helmet design mattered to him. With his special helmet at the USA Grand Prix in 2001, only weeks after 9/11, a helmet carrying a statement was used in Formula 1 for the first time in history. After the race it was auctioned for a record sum in support of the victims of the attacks.

Adrian Sutil

Especially in the later stages of his Formula 1 career Adrian developed into a true helmet design enthusiast and contributed many creative ideas of his own. He had already been a client since his karting days and until his last Formula 1 race in 2014 we created some of the coolest JMD helmet designs together.

Max Verstappen

When Max joined us eight years ago as a Red Bull Junior driver, nobody could have predicted that he would develop into one of the greatest talents of modern Formula 1 history. We are proud to accompany his career. His orange Spa helmets have become world famous and it is always exciting to bring his ideas and visions to life.

Sebastian Vettel

When we prepared his first Formula 1 race in Indianapolis in 2007, we had too many ideas for just two helmets. So Sebastian and Jens Munser decided to paint both helmets differently and use two of the concepts. Over time an entire collection of ideas developed and every new helmet was carefully planned. Even today we present Sebastian with our concepts and finalize the design together. In the summer of 2012 the 50th helmet design was delivered in Monza. Contrary to popular belief that Sebastian receives a new helmet for every race, each new Arai helmet actually receives its own design. However, every helmet with which he wins a race earns a place of honor in a display cabinet and is never used again. Since 2015 the FIA regulations allow helmet designs to change only once per season. Since then we have focused on a consistent base design composed of white and the German national colors. Even so, there is still plenty of room for creativity. In total, more than 130 different designs have been created and painted – and there is really no reason to stop.