A friend’s standout design: Amaury Cordeel on his 2025 Helmet

Amaury Cordeel’s helmet certainly catches the eye, a design like no other on the Formula 2 grid, and that is just how the Rodin Motorsport driver wants it to be.

Recently, we caught up with him to discuss his 2025 look, and how it came to be, as well as what we can expect maybe at some point this season.

“It's actually a design I did last year for the last two rounds in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, together with an artist, whose logo is on the top, from Belgium, and he did the design for the helmet.

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“I think it was a great idea because he is a friend of mine that was an artist and I wanted to do something new with the helmet and it just popped out, so I did something nice with him.

“But because of the last moment change to drive this season, I am just using the helmet from the last two rounds from last year, because I really like it.

“He asked me what has to be on it and I just said to him 'go crazy on it'. For me there is nothing that has to be on it, because before I had my logo on it but then it's not art anymore. So I just wanted him to go crazy on it.

“The wonderful thing is I have a duplicate version of it at home that is painted by the artist themselves.

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“This is designed by the artist but not painted, because it has to be homologated by the FIA, but I have one at home that is painted by hand.

“I don't know if I have a favourite part of the helmet. I would say I like that it's all split into different parts and the designs on it is really nice.

“I think I first saw it before the designer saw it because I got it from the painter and then I sent the photos to him.

“Going forward, what I do will depend on if I do it with him or without him. I am currently working on one that will not be with him but maybe in the future we can do something together again. But it will be something else again.

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“I won't reveal the new helmet yet, it will be something completely different which I like to do. Before I had the mosaic, and I like to do a lot of different things with a lot of different designs.

“I think it's boring to always have the same design and the same patterns in your helmet. So that's why I asked an artist to do it, but now I am also working on something myself that is completely different to other helmets. That's what I like!”