2010 feels so long ago, doesn't it? A few short years after one of the best livery seasons in living memory, we're now at a stage where almost every car's look can be, in the main, predicted weeks before launch. There are still a few decent liveries on the grid, but in general there's a quite "samey" feel to proceedings, and a disappointing general lack of good colour. Anyway! Lamenting aside, let's have a look at how all the cars from 2013 stack up alongside one-another...
And almost as quickly as it began, the 2013 launch season is over. That's what happens, I guess, when the number of teams is reduced, AND when half of them choose to "launch" by rolling out their new cars amid little fanfare on the same test day.
Something strange and weird is happening, and I'm not sure I really like or understand it, but I'm just going to say it: despite the fact that it still relies on the same basic principles as a livery first introduced in 2006... I kind of quite like the 2013 version of the Toro Rosso. I'd even go so far as to say it might be one of the strongest liveries of this season so far...
A company with a well-established history who made a major technological breakthrough in their field a few years back, but who have been left struggling to catch up as their rivals took their work, improved it and left them in the dust, now making one big last-ditch attempt to...
Okay, so let's quickly catch up with the two cars that were launched on Friday, apparently the 2013 F1 season's day of "F"s...
Unless it had stayed exactly the same, this could only have been an improvement on the 2012 "effort". Thankfully, it seems they actually took the advice I gave them last year, finally ditching the mostly-white colour scheme of the BMW days and sensibly dressing the car in the shade...
Well, Lucozade occupy the rear wing slot that they took over partway through last year, and the front wing has the word Vodafone on it rather than just the logo, and SAP are back on the nose having been curiously absent this time last year, but otherwise... yeah.
Hooray! It's 2013! The new liveries are coming! Look, the first one's already here! It's... oh. Oh, dear.
One of F1's most venerable pub quiz answers, Arrows Grand Prix (also known at various times as Footwork Arrows and TWR Arrows) are most famous as being the team to have competed in the most races without winning one - competing 382 times between 1978 and 2002 without ever...
Hello, F1 livery fans. I'm afraid the site ended up going even quieter than usual in the months following the 2012 launch season. But! We're back again for the 2013 season, and to whet your appetite here's a bit of news on the launch dates of the new cars...
Well, they've now done it for two races, so I think we can assume it wasn't just a one-off for Australia, and thus it's worth reporting: McLaren have made a change to their livery, replacing the usual Vodafone logo on the rear wing with that of Lucozade. Interesting.
A change in format for the annual livery review this year, as I've decided to go through each team and award a rating out of five based on four distinct categories, giving a total score out of 20 to determine in truly scientific fashion which is THE BEST...
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