Black Beauty
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Two livery changes before the season’s even begun. We won’t see days like this again. So it feels a bit odd trying to in any way judge the new Mercedes livery on aesthetic standards. Whether or not it looks any good – and particularly how it looks in relation to the original livery – is completely irrelevant when set against what it means. It’s a huge statement – sure, the kind of huge statement that’s ultimately meaningless unless it’s backed up by the kind of action Mercedes are saying they’re committing too – but a huge statement nevertheless. There will be (and indeed are) those argu ..read more
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2020 Liveries: The Verdict!
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Well, here we are, then. We’ve somehow made it into the third newly-prefixed decade of F1 Colours’ existence. 2020 has something of a “holding pattern” feel to it as a season – with not much movement on the driver and team front (except for one team taking on a new identity!), but new rules and lots of movement due to happen in 2021. It’s been a good few years for liveries – since around 2017, we’ve had some bright and colourful schemes on the grid, as well as some nice surprises here and there; but some of the established paint jobs are starting to reach the natural end of their lifespan, and ..read more
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Ian Hutchinson 1960-2020
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Some sad news this week, as reported by FormulaSpy, that the famed livery designer Ian Hutchinson has passed away at the age of just 59, after a battle with cancer. Hutchinson was most famous for his work with the Jordan team, where he was employed between the team’s inception in 1991, and the first year of their contract with Benson & Hedges in 1996. This means, of course, that he was responsible for the livery that many – myself included – consider to be the greatest in the history of the sport, the 1991 7-Up Jordan 191: Embed from Getty Images A beautiful early draft of the iconic Jord ..read more
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VIDEO: F1’s Most Successful Race Numbers
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
It’s only taken us five years, but we’ve finally produced another video feature! Every car and driver in Formula 1 carries a different race number – but are certain numbers more successful than others? We’ve done the maths to bring you a list of the 10 most successful numbers, based on race wins since 1974 (the year that numbers became fixed for a whole season). Does Lewis Hamilton’s #44 beat Sebastian Vettel’s #5? What impact do the likes of Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell have on the figures? Watch on to find out. The post VIDEO: F1’s Most Successful Race Nu ..read more
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Pointing Back to Pink
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Well, this was a surprise – or at least, it would have been, if photos of the livery hadn’t already leaked online – but Racing Point have made a change to their title sponsorship arrangement. SportPesa, who joined the team for its rebranding last season and added blue to its livery, are out of the door – and BWT, who’ve been with the team since 2017 and are the reason for its pink livery, become actual title sponsors for the first time. It’s meant that the awkward fudged blue sections that got added to the car last year are gone, and as a result what we’ve ended up with is the cleanest execut ..read more
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Williams Make a Statement
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
When rounding up Williams’ livery history earlier this year, I said that the team could often be considered somewhat conservative, especially when it comes to their livery choices. Generally, they’re a team who finds something they like and then sticks to it – moments where they’ve raised eyebrows with their liveries are generally few and far between (the 1998 switch to Winfield red perhaps the most striking example). So it does feel rather like they’re making a statement with their 2020 livery – that after an annus horribilis on the track in 2019 with a livery that many felt was flat and uni ..read more
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AlphaTauri Dress for Success
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
We didn’t get a post out on this straight away because AlphaTauri took the bizarre step of launching their car on a Friday night – and on Valentine’s Day, to boot. There was no chance I was going to have the chance to get away and give this the writeup it deserves, so you’re getting it now. But it does deserve having time spent on it, because bloody hell, what a livery this is. My initial reaction from the first shots I saw of the launch was how weird I thought the massive logo and “ALPHA TAURI” text on the engine cover were – and I still think that. But it’s weird in a good way. It’s unusual ..read more
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McLaren Join the Matte Club
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Matte paint: it’s all the rage in F1 now, it seems. With Red Bull having started the trend a few years back, and Ferrari hopping on to it last year, the latest team to de-shine their car is McLaren, for whom it’s one of a handful of evolutionary changes made to what was by a comfortable margin the best livery of 2019. Aside from the change to that papaya orange, there are a number of ways in which the 2020 livery differs from last year’s, while still feeling very much like a new version of the same concept. The way that the blue sections have been applied to the car have changed significantly ..read more
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Some Things Never Change (Especially If You’re Ferrari Or Red Bull)
F1 Colours by Seb Patrick
by Seb Patrick
4y ago
Ahem, sorry. But having a four-year-old child means that song’s been playing in our house a lot lately. Anyway, yes, we’ve had two new launches in the last twenty-four hours, but because they’re Ferrari and Red Bull, there’s not a huge amount to talk about in terms of the liveries being particularly different from last year. Let’s start with Red Bull, because as they’ve said on Twitter, “liveries are made to last”. And this livery has lasted, albeit with some alterations, since 2016: Even by their standards, though, this one is astonishingly similar to last year, which was itself astonishin ..read more
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