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Livery Watch 2024: Special Editions
Breaking News: Local woman still isn't done yelling about car liveries.
idk how many one-off liveries the teams are going to do this year, but in any case I love McLaren's livery for Japan, so if there's any more across this season I'll be updating this post as they appear throughout the year!
McLaren - Japanese GP Vuse "Driven by Change" livery
I LOVED this when the promo images dropped at the start of the week. The livery was designed by Japanese artist MILTZ and is inspired by Edomoji (a style of Japanese calligraphy), the design reminds me a lot of The Great Wave off Kanagawa but I'm pretty sure because they both have a wave motif.
I absolutely love the splashes of blue and white, I wish they were on the black portion of the car instead because the livery would look so much brighter, but I still love how it looks on the car regardless.
9/10
Ferrari - Miami GP Blue livery
Adding list to the very long list of the ways that Ferrari have disappointed me, and ngl I'm so tempted to put it right at the top.
After all the hype Ferrari had been putting out on socials I was expecting the car to be all blue (which, is in recognition of the 70th anniversary of Ferrari selling cars in the USA) and instead we have... this.
Like, no one would have forgotten that Ferrari's are meant to be red just bc the car went all blue for one race, especially because the team kit and overalls are all-over blue for this week (I am extra mad bc the shades of blue that's on the car are so stunning and would definitely have stood out compared to the other blue livery cars).
Also don't get me started on the silly amount of HP logos on the car, if I was a tifosi I would be beyond embarrassed rn
2/10 and that's me being nice.
Racing Bulls - Miami GP livery
Ahhhh. That's better.
I LOVE the multi-colour gradient (even if it does slightly resemble the instagram logo). I would have loved to see it all over the car because the chrome silver bull would look so nice against it.
But apart from that it's so bright and fun and it's going to look fantastic on track this weekend. I'm not even mad that it's matte.
9/10
McLaren - Monaco GP Senna livery
*shouting in the general direction of Maranello* You see this Ferrari? THAT'S how you do a special livery!
Yes, it's incredibly yellow (to the point it looks like a Benson & Hedges sponsored Jordan if you squint) but that's the whole point. (Also bonus points for the car pretty much being completely painted!!!)
As an ode to Ayrton Senna, it's pretty much spot on. For me the first thing that always sprang to mind when Senna is mentioned is his helmet design featuring the colours of the Brazilian flag. I also love the diagonal lines as a nod to the Marlboro McLaren livery.
Oh and did I forget to mention that IT'S NOT MATTE!!!
10/10
Red Bull - British GP "REBL CUSTMS - Stallion Red" livery
Like last season, we're getting three fan-designed RBR liveries this year in honour of the team's 20th anniversary and this is the first!
And god, I wish it was the main livery. The brushes of neon red are so bright and actually look interesting instead of the super corporate unchanged livery we've seen since 2016.
Usual 'I hate that it's matte complaints' but spart of that, it really looks great.
8/10
Williams - British GP livery
So in the design stakes, I definitely prefer last year's white accents design. However, on the sentimentality stakes (of which I will never be immune to), I love it so so much.
As it's been mentioned a lot in commentary already this week, the car features the names of all 1005 Williams team members - and founder Sir Frank Williams, which is just so so lovely.
6/10 for design, 10/10 for the sentiment behind it.
Alpine - Belgian GP "Deadpool & Wolverine" livery
ngl friends I have spent the whole time since this dropped staring at this going 'hmm'.
I definitely don't hate it, I think I once again find all the exposed carbon very off-putting, but at least there is more paint on the car this time compared with their core blue and pink liveries. (And, tbf, given how Deadpool's colour scheme is red and black, it does make sense from that pov)
The concept behind this is very fun, I genuinely cannot remember the last time we had a full promotional livery for something (Aston Martin did run the James Bond logo on their cars when No Time to Die came out, but that was it).
I think it would have been nice if there was more yellow (as cool as the Wolverine claw marks are), but overall it's definitely very fun. I really want to see how it's going to look on track.
7.5/10
Mercedes - Singapore GP "Petronas 50th Anniversary" livery
Not gonna lie, after the well documented events of the 2019 German Grand Prix, I honestly never thought we'd see Mercedes run a one-off livery ever again, so seeing this upon opening Instagram this morning was a nice surprise!
Might be worth saying that this livery is in honour of Petronas' 50th anniversary as a company (their title sponsorship with Mercedes only dates back to 2010), and the choice of debuting this livery at Singapore is that it's the race closest to Petronas' HQ in Malaysia.
(Powers that be pleeeeeeeeease bring back the Malaysian GP in Sepang!!!!!!!)
So, all that aside, I do very much like this livery. The Merc colour scheme of black, silver and teal is super iconic and works in pretty much any iteration. Design wise though I wish there had been a tiny bit of effort put in because they've literally just swapped round where the silver and teal is on their core livery.
I do think the car will stand out on track really well against the dark tarmac of the circuit, and the fact that from this picture at least the teal portion of the car looks glossy so it should look stunning under the floodlights at night.
8/10
Racing Bulls - Singapore GP "Hugo Boss Denim" livery
I want to get on board with this, I really really reaaaaaaaally do.
I just can't because they didn't properly commit to the bit and do the whole car in denim.
Unlike RBs Miami GP livery in which they got away with keeping the dark blue engine cover and halo because across the whole car the colour scheme still felt cohesive, on this livery (or, as we're all calling it, jivery) the saturated blue does not feel very put together with the rest of the denim. And I am a little bit mad about it bc if the denim had been all over the car I think it would have looked both amazing and really different on track. And for once, I don't mind the matte finish bc as we all know denim is not ultra-glossy - another reason why keeping the dark blue engine cover from the core livery just makes the whole thing look odd.
Love the concept, really not on board with the execution - 6/10 overall.
McLaren - Singapore GP "OKX Legend Reborn" livery
oh this FUCKS.
It's somewhat turned into a tradition of McLaren debuting a one-off livery in Singapore. In 2022 the sky blue accents on the core livery were swapped out for a stunning hot pink, and last year we had the mostly carbon stealth livery (you can find my thoughts on that in my Livery Watch 2023 tag).
And this year, as the name suggests, McLaren are running a livery inspired by the iconic Marlboro McLaren livery of the 1980s, with papaya orange in place of Marlboro red.
and to repeat myself, it FUCKS.
I love the stripe of white down the middle of the car, it really stands out compared to the slash of exposed carbon on the core livery and combined with the orange the car just looks so much brighter and is really going to stand out on track.
Is it a little bit Finding Nemo? Yes. Do I care? No.
For the tiny bit of exposed carbon it loses a point so - 9/10
Red Bull - Singapore GP "REBL CUSTUMS - Camo Bull" livery
I will update if I find a better picture, the RBR website is silly.
The funny thing about updating this post as the year goes on instead of doing a reblog for each new livery is that all the various off-track (ie. Red Bull scrapping their two remaining fan designed liveries because the paint they were going to use made the car too heavy) happenings do get a bit lost within the passing of time.
But, as this is my house and I can do what I want on Livery Watch, I'm gonna yell about what would have been RBR's Singapore GP livery anyway, as it has thankfully been put onto Hamda Al Quibaisi's F1 Academy car (plus matching overalls!!!) for this weekend.
And as I said on a post earlier today (as I write this) I am mad that RBR chickened out bc this is SUCH a sexy livery. It pays tribute to the og Camo Bull livery from 2015 pre-season testing so well and it's just DIFFERENT and FUN and is gonna look SO good on the circuit and the pops of neon red are just stunning. I love it.
10/10. no notes.
Haas - United States GP livery
Not only are Haas going to be arriving at the Circuit of the Americas with Toyota Gazoo Racing logos on the car after the announcement of their new technical partnership with Toyota, they are also as seems to be turning into a tradition running a stars and stripes inspired livery for what is 'officially' the team's home race.
(I say officially as while the F1 calendar does have 3 US races, the race in Austin is the only one branded as the United States GP).
I do very much prefer this livery compared to the one they ran last year. The brighter, more saturated colours, work well against the predominantly black base, though I find the red driver numbers a bit hard to read as the white outline is a bit too thin. But I love the scattered star motif on the front wing and sidepods - I think it's very fun!
While I do get why the main emblem on the car is a hybrid of a lone star (bc Texas is the lone star state) and the head of an eagle (ca-caw, wtf is a kilometre) it does slightly give off 'concept art for an NFL team logo' vibes, and I think running with just the star motif would have gotten the same message across just as well.
(I will say though, I think the eagle art itself is pretty good! It just feels ever so slightly too much.)
7/10
Alpine - United States GP "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" livery
As the semi-official Livery Watch reporter for f1blr news, I do feel it's my journalistic duty to point out that Disney have not managed to pay Harrison Ford even more money to come back for another film, but that this livery is actually promotion for the upcoming video game of the same title.
My second thought upon seeing this livery (my first, like everyone else, was that it looks like a McLaren cosplay) was that I felt quite mad Alpine have painted more of the car for this one-off livery than they have done for their pink and blue core liveries, and I'm once again mad at the missed potential for what we could have had.
(My thoughts on the Alpine core livery can be found in my Livery Watch 2024 tag).
I did have to do some digging, and thanks to this video posted on Alpine's twitter feed and this post by one of Alpine's graphic designers, I am fairly confident in saying that the car is not in fact all over orange, and like the Indiana Jones logo is more of a yellow to orange ombré with a really cool looking treasure map motif on top.
I think the concept is fun (despite the promo images making the car look more orange than what it seemingly is) and it's been executed fairly well, but I may need to wait to see it in daylight before properly deciding if I like it or not.
7/10
McLaren - United States GP Chrome livery
As first ran at the British GP last year, McLaren have once again brought back their chrome silver livery of the late-00s and 2010s, in partnership with one of their main sponsors Google.
And, before I go in detail, I want to show my initial reaction via the tags on a post of this livery I reblogged earlier today because I think it sums up my feelings very well.
I cannot begin to express how delighted I am that McLaren have given this livery a second attempt, because the first version they ran last year was quite a big miss.
This version feels so much more thought out in terms of where the chrome silver paint will actually go and what this livery and the original Vodafone McLaren chrome livery do well is having a really bright pop of colour against the silver so the car doesn't look too bland (unlike the team's 2014 chrome and black livery).
Honestly? This is yet another banger of a McLaren one-off livery. It's silver chrome done stunningly well. 10/10.
Williams - Mexico City GP & Sao Paulo GP altered Core livery
The delay in the latest addition to Livery Watch is partially due to life stuff, and also due to me contemplating whether or not it actually counted since it's a sponsor driven change as opposed to a "let's do this for funsies!" change. BUT we have seen sponsor driven liveries this year so I have finally decided that it counts, so onwards!
The addition of the Mercado Libre logo and yellow colour splash for the two Latin American races of the year is definitely fun (it stands out on the car from a mile away) and either intentionally or otherwise evokes the classic blue, white and yellow Williams liveries of the 80s and 90s.
Obviously there would have been a limitation on what shade of yellow they could put on the car, and I am somewhat bummed that it covers the original Frank Williams Racing logo, but a lot of what I love about the 2024 core livery remains.
Solid 6/10
Sauber - Las Vegas GP Flame livery
I want to like this. However, I don't think I do.
My favourite part of this livery is the nose cone, I think the white to neon green gradient is actually quite nice and had it been done all over the car would have looked very striking on track (especially in contrast to the exposed carbon areas of the car).
I'm just... really not a fan of the flame motif. It looks fine on the front end of the car, but on the engine cover where it's just a flat line before the rest of the flames just makes it look so harsh and for me anyway it's the first thing my eyes are drawn to because it look so slapped on and out of place.
5/10 (mainly for the nose cone)
Alpine - Las Vegas GP, Qatar GP & Abu Dhabi GP 'Al-Pink' livery
When I tell you that upon opening my instagram and saw this I literally threw my hands into the air as if I myself had just won a Grand Prix (please also refer to my all caps post from earlier as an additional first reaction that sums up my general feelings nicely).
oh BWT, I could literally kiss you on the mouth for this. I genuinely have never been happier for a sponsor requiring that a team run a specific livery for a set number of races per season. Pink Alpine they could NEVER make me hate you.
And I am so utterly thrilled and delighted to say that thanks to one of the Alpine livery/graphic designers confirming in this post, IT'S A GLOSSY PINK 😭🙌
Previous BWT-pink liveries have been a much softer pink, but I just love the brighter in your face almost Barbie pink. I think they've gone in this direction since all the races this livery will be ran at are night races, so the slightly darker and brighter pink will definitely stand out against the dark circuit under the floodlights.
Yes, there is sadly more exposed carbon than I would like. But I honestly don't care. IT'S A SHINY PINK F1 CAR!!!!!!
10/10
Racing Bulls - Las Vegas GP "Glitter" livery
Gonna keep it short and sweet, and share my initial reaction to the livery via the medium of a screenshot of Discord DMs.
We could have had it all... truly. Racing Bulls were literally stood in front of an open goal and instead kicked the ball outside the stadium. My disappointment is beyond immeasurable rn.
3.5/10 - for the cohesive colour palette at least.
#Formula 1#Livery Watch#2024#Livery Watch 2024#(doing the one off liveries in their own post just to keep things tidy)
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I’m actually so excited to see what Ferrari does with their livery for Miami 🫣
#watch it just be a single blue stripe 😭#or they’ll change the wording on the rear wing to blue#but a fully blue livery would be iconic#ferrari actually used to have one back in the 60s#f1#formula 1#formula one#scuderia ferrari
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2009 Singapore Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso
#my eyes are just lazer focused on where his race suit is unzipped 🫠 he looks sooooo good in these#i wish theyd bring back this style of post race presser bcs my god imy heart skips a beat every time drivers make eye contact w the camera#i think the last race i watched where nando was on the podium was literally fucking canada 23#so i am very very please and happy and delighted to see him finally again#BUT I AM SHRIEKING AT THE FACT THAT HE DEDICATED HIS PODIUM TO FLAVIO AT HOME#FLAVIO WHO IS AT HOME BECAUSE HE WAS LITERALLY JUST PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM F1#AND HE DOES THIS PRACTICALLY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CRASHGATE WHICH WAS JUST PENALIZED A WK AGOO#NANNDDOOOOOOO WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS???? MENACE BEHAVIOR!!!!!!!! WAR CRIMINAL!!!!!!!#not included here but he was late to the cooldown room even tho he was the first one to get to parc ferme#and i realized its because he went to get a coke hahaha#i guess thats his drink of choice when dehydrated bcs thats what he was drinking at malaysia 2005 when it was also humid/hot#also i prefer the blue/yellow renault livery obv but i think the yellow/orange one is underrated#renaults liveries and color palletes from this era imo are just very clean and nice looking and work very well together#fernando alonso#fa14#formula 1#f1#formula one#we do a little bit of f1#2009 singapore gp#season: 2009
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Rip most frenemies from F1 you would have loved the Andrea-Emily relationship from The Devil wears Prada
#'Alex are using-' 'your chassis because I broke mine? Yeah I am'#nico rosberg baby only Emily when she finds out Andrea is going to Paris can understand your pain#Me everytime I see the 'new' Redbull livery in Miranda Priestly voice 'Groundbreaking'#James Vowles @Logan 'I thought you would be different. I said to myself#go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the American boy'. I#Nico Hulkenberg is soooo Stanley Tucci coded you have no idea he's been stuck in his failgirl era for too long#very haopy about his point in China though literally made my day better#I want rge grid to watch The Devil Wears Prada and tell who or what do they think is the villain#f1#formula 1#brocedes#charlos#loscar#landoscar#galex#i don't know how to tag this#maxiel#FRENEMIES COME TO ME#lestappen#are they a frenemy?#they used to be
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having emotions about the headcanon that ingellvar left all their gold jewelry (I think emmrich calls it a watcher's 'grave dowry' which they accumulate and wear through their lifetime in preparation for their eventual burial which like. god I love these goth freaks) behind when they left the grand necropolis because as far as they're concerned they're being sent into exile and it doesn't seem right to bring it with them........
#rye would normally be DRIPPING with bling haha he's a fancy lil guy when given half the choice#the starter armour was him holding his nose and going 'very well. for the sake of saving the world. but I don't have to like it'#and then he let out a huge sigh of relief when he got his fancy blue silk watcher robes and never looked back#(they're also kind of *rocking* the high level mourn watch rogue outfit surprisingly. I thought the purple/green colour scheme#and the weird shoulder thingies might overwhelm the cool factor. but no they look kind of sleek and fancy in it lol)#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#rook ingellvar#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#nevarrans must find orlesians kind of creepy for dipping everything in gold#considering that in nevarra gold is reserved for the dead and those who guard them lol. 'you just. walk into a party wearing that???#with no watcher's livery or anything as explanation???? alright then'#hfkjdshakfjds the idea of nevarrans finding orlesians weirdly goth is a gift I just gave to myself. thank you brain for a rare W there
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reverse unpopular opinions: F1 liveries!
i'll never be seanagh livery watch racingliners but here's some liveries that make me need to chew on james' head
Racing Point RP20 -> PINK CAR IDC IF SHE DID ALL THAT SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL
Mercedes F1 W05 -> oh watching Abu Dhabi 2014 with u made me think about how much i love this car. she is so beautiful. i love her so much (maybe bc i love 2014 as a season too)
Williams FW37 -> SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL...jv consider a beautiful special livery that has this vibe pleaaaasseeee
Honda RA106 -> i like the colour scheme of the car y'know but i just REALLY LOVE the typography and little text quirks on the car. my favourite is the back with dont walk but the LOOK LEFT and LOOK RIGHT text is spectacular. i love a quirky car
reverse unpop opinion: talk about something you like, gush about, or find something nicey to say about said topic!
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turns out all i needed to feel like i could function again was a nice hangout with a friend where we drank pints and watched planes landing while the sun set & then to switch jobs on near-total impulse the next morning. Girl who is going to be writing again any minute now
#.txt#cannot oversell watching planes landing btw. we go to a pub that's dead close to a major flight path into manc airport#and it's literally such a good time....just pulling up flightradar and spotting liveries. we saw an a380 yesterday we were so excited
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Am I gonna miss Callum in Indycar this year??? Yes, of course. Does the JHR being ugly and the Jota being gold and pretty help the sadness??? Yes, yes it does
#callum ilott#excited to see him in wec#itll be the first full season i watch so thats fun#wec#indycar#its black and green and orange and silver/white#its so much on one livery
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Two hypercars to my very small collection.
#i know you'll think im such a nerd#i have more this is not all i have#to delete#next i want a Lamborghini aventador#and GT40 gulf livery#my friend is looking for a jesko and a gemera#the GT40... have you all watched ford vs ferrari
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speaking of races i missed out from my casey recs post, deeply pissed at myself for not including assen 2007
#here's my free casey stoner rec of the day!! my main excuse for forgetting about it is that it's not a duel casey WINS...#and it's more of a great vale race than a great casey one but like... key one in their rivalry even if casey won the war that season...#top five casey/vale duel one of the two best races that year and i just left it out. like a loser. like an amateur#also valentino has an all time great livery there... im so disappointed in myself. i've watched it so often how did this HAPPEN#i approached it too casually i fear i mostly went from memory and then double checked my notes for the races i'd put down anyway...#with dovi i had to be more thorough because off the top of my head i was like ??? tf did he even do before 2017#which is why that post is more heavily based off my notes and for better or for worse completely escalated in length#anyway go watch assen 2007 it slaps. at some point i'll probably do some follow up recs for casey with all the ones i forgot about#//#brr brr#heretic tag#race rec tag
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which livery are you most excited for?
ferrari since it's my one true love and always has been (also because last year's launch was the best ever launch i have ever seen from any team ever, so the expectations are set high). other than that i'm curious about williams, because i love the blue color and i'm a SUCKER for the duracell sponsorship part of ther livery (they better keep it)
#who am i not looking forward to tho. hmmm. rbr bacause it's always the same and leaks hours before#same with haas basically except they tweak the colors but minus points for it only being pics posted online#i have a beef with mcl because they always prolong it with extreme e and formula e and indycar and what not liveries#and. idk. don't get me wrong while i appreciate other series as well (snd god knows sometimes i enjoy some mroe than f1)#you usually watch to see the car only (maybe the suits for new season too if you're lucky) but that's it#also speaking of mcl i expect them to look pretty much the same indy and formula e look like and i will laugh.#sorry to mcl fans but i will so laugh. both lando and oscar will look like curd left on the sun for a few hours in the orange highlighter#not you sam bird. you are perfect even in the orange and you know it.#also looking forward to merc it they show us the real car and not just livery which i expect from some like rbr and williams#also kinda aston because the green is also nice and i hope they tweak it a bit for this yead#did i forget some team???#oh wait fuck my alpha nemesis which both lose the alpha part huh#ok. looking forward to yuki and the name change announcement from at.#looking forward to guanyu and val and whatever livery the team whose name idk will bring us#that's it :))#ask#e
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As the resident livery watch expert, do you have any livery ideas that you'd love to see?
like personally, I'd kill for aston to incorporate some pink into a special livery or to have a Vodafone mclaren back for a race
Now that I’m in a better headspace I can finally answer this! And I was soooooo happy to get this ask you’ve no idea, I cannot believe that other people enjoy Livery Watch. I just started it because I wanted to yell about car paint, so that fact I’ve now had multiple requests for it, and people have even messaged me saying they were looking forward to my opinion for certain liveries is just… WILD.
ANYWAY! I could really make this answer so long that I’ll end up hitting character limit. Since I started doing Livery Watch, I’ve always done a post before all the car launches listing both what I think the core liveries for each team will look like, and a wishlist of what I want to see. (I hilariously got my prediction for Racing Bulls bringing back the Toro Rosso drinks can livery spot on, and yes I’m still riding that high).
My wishlist of liveries I want to see is… so long. Mainly, and I know I talk about it all the time, I NEED everyone to put the matte paint down. F1 cars are supposed to be SHINY, and this is very much the hill I will die on.
In terms of special/one-off liveries I would love to see:
Aston Martin
Yes I would love it so much if they brought back the pink stripe accents (beloved watermelon AMR21 I miss you!!!). I am however of the very biased opinion that Aston’s livery is absolute perfection and cannot be improved on so honestly, I don’t have any immediate yearnings for a special AM livery.
Alpine
I NEED them so bring back the full pink livery because it was hands down the sexiest car on the grid. The epitome of 10/10 no notes. (and I mean PROPERLY all over pink. Not the stickers on exposed carbon nonsense we have this year).
Mercedes
Hear me out… but I do think they were actually onto something with their vintage inspired livery they used at the German GP in 2019 (I know it was cursed… I KNOW). I think an all-over white livery would be fun as a one off for an anniversary race, or equally a rendition of the livery they ran in the 50s would be just as fun! (Also… all-black bc it was sexy af)
Williams
In an ideal world, I’d have the Martini livery back. This may also be a hot take, but I did enjoy the cyan to white ombre livery they ran during their Rokit sponsorship days. Bar a couple of exceptions the current grid of cars is quite dark and I think a brighter pop of colour would be very appreciated.
Ferrari
THE 1000TH GP BURGUNDY LIVERY!!! I think about it all the time and I miss it SO MUCH!!! Hands down the prettiest Ferrari that I ever did see. Nothing else comes remotely close. (Though, do it with cream accents instead of neon yellow please!!!!)
McLaren – Honestly they have been running some amazing one-off liveries this year! To the point I can't actually think of anythign I'd like to see. The Senna livery from Monaco and the Chrome livery from Austin were both sooo gorgeous – and to echo your above point I do think the chrome livery is the closest we’re going to get to a return of the Vodafone livery, but this year’s rendition was executed perfectly.
Racing Bulls (no I'm still not calling them VCARB)
Everyone and their grandmother knows that Team Faenza is the Red Bull Junior Team and no amount of rebrands is going to change that. So bring back any of the old Toro Rosso liveries please and thank you. Look at the detail work on that Red Bull on the engine cover!!!!!!
I can’t think of anything for the other teams at present sadly. Haas haven’t been around for long enough for anything to spring to mind (I do enjoy their current livery iteration though!) and Sauber have rebranded so much it’s hard to keep track (the Alfa Romeo livery was just so perfect imho)… and for Red Bull just ditching the matte navy for metallic dark blue on their core livery would be enough for me.
#I take Livery Watch very seriously so I typed this up in word first just to get all my thoughts down#and I added the pictures at the last minute just because Livery watch isn't Livery Watch without some visuals#thanks for being patient with this one Grace 💚#asks#schumigrace#grace tag#Formula 1#Livery Watch
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Ai ogura during P2 of German GP
#yes sachsenring is more than a month ago but i was busy and forgot to do this lol#his smileeeee its like rare to see him so smiley now#like I watch 2019 months ago and was so shocked to see him smiling and waving at the camera#especially that one race where honda has that special livery i forgot what race but hes so pookie coded there#that gif is clearer now but its kinda small to my liking hmm#used a different app welp#may make more gifs when i start rewatching old races or the fps i missed because of clinical posting#i think i havent match the fps for le mans? we will see#ai ogura#mine 🫶
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Okay finally posting my pics from when I went to Hanger-7 on Saturday July 1st !!
RB9 🥹
STR3 !!!
RB16B
RB7
Various Red Bull-Saubers(including Kimi's first F1 car!!!)
Tbh I think seeing these cars was more surreal and insane to me than going to the actual race the very next day. I think it's because I'm more deranged about the 2010s than nowadays(for the most part), so seeing all these incredibly iconic cars in the flesh(especially ones like the STR3 and Hungry Heidi) was just unbelievable to me. And the fact that it's free entry as well??? Yeah yeah, feel free to waltz into our aircraft hanger, free of charge, and witness these spectacles of engineering 🥱
#as i said it was just super surreal to be standing next to those cars after seeing so many pics and watching so many vids of them#like ??? im standing next to seb's first gp winning car ????#im standing next to seb's 2nd wdc winning car rn?????#(ALSO OMG SEEING BOTH MARK AND SEB'S NAMES ON THE RB7 HEHEHEHE FOREVER IMMORTALIZED TOGETHER)#im standing next to *the* 13x race winner 4th wdc winning Hungry Heidi rn??????????????????#like the fact that they had (i think) 4 championship cars just there is insane to me#(also shhhhh i dont know which chassis they have obv so dont be like 'well actually!' to me)#no rb6 tho :( which is a shame bcs thats my fav rb car but god so many other favs so its okay#actually i think they had rb6 but in a different livery so i only have like one pic of it#but anyways i guess its also just more surreal than the gp bcs i was standing so close and getting to appreciate it all#whereas the gp was more of an experience and a really really insane thing to go to and experience rather than appreciate more finely ig?#but yeah do you guys like when i say ill post pics soon and then dont do so until 10 days later?#tbf i just didnt want to post them on the race wknd...but now its almost the race wknd again#btw they had some more cars. i think the rb10 and rb13? but the ones i posted are all my babies yknow#hahaha wait for my course we're supposed to write reflections(in german my god) abt some places we visited right?#and ill do them i swear i swear but like my brain was pretty useless at trying to write that much german while doing so much else#so the only one ive ended up writing was abt going to hanger 7 and how unglaublich it was and it was basically just a rant#omg also!! i have a pic w hungry heidi !!!! (and rb16b boycar ofc)#its so funny bcs basically until the day of i was unsure if i was going to see this alone bcs the guy who ended up going w me was unsure#so id just constantly daydream abt what it would be like to have to ask a stranger to take a pic of me with rb9#but luckily my friend did! but god no way was i leaving that hanger without taking a pic with at least one beloved#red bull racing#f1#formula 1#formula one#rb9#catie.rambling.txt#rb7#str3#rb16b
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the fam dont like indy. rood.
#“its so american”#“why are the teams liveries all different”#“this is so boring can we watch smth else”
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The scent of jet fuel, the sound of idling Airbuses, the flickering of runway lights, and the breeze from jets landing on the runway are always guaranteed to feel like home.
#feeling a little sentimental tonight#watching planes touch the ground and only able to see the continental globe on the aircraft tail#looking over a tarmac i've seen my entire life#the livery might have changed but the building hasn't#isn't it funny that what keeps me grounded is a port#meant for coming and going#a place of transition and change#where everything is different and simultaneously the same#just as its been since i was five years old#personal
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