As someone who runs a site whose main purpose is to sit here and critique the livery designs of other people, there's a reasonable question that could be put to me - "Well, what would you do differently?" So for once, I've decided to put my money where my mouth is - and come up with a set of liveries for the 2012 teams that I would like to see out there...
Well, this is an odd one. I'm still slightly wary of actually calling this the full 2012 Williams livery, because... well, because there's so much of that dark blue, that's usually the preserve of their testing-only liveries. But by the same token... it's got lines on it and stuff, so it is a designed livery, so we can probably assume that this is how the cars are going to roll out at the races. And it's *weird*.
Yes, folks! It's time for another exciting installment of 'Rounding Up 2012 Liveries That Are Basically Almost Exactly The Same As Their 2011 Equivalents'! And here's your host, F1 Colours' Seb Patrick!
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Yes, yes, I'm still playing catchup - the Lotus has already launched, and here I am talking about the new Force India. But let's deal with the first car of 2012 that does actually have a fair bit to talk about on the livery front first...
I was largely away from my computer during the launch-fest that was Thursday and Friday just gone, so let's rattle through everything now. To start with, I'll take a look at the two teams who've barely changed their liveries in the slightest...
Well, we were expecting the car launch season to kick off tomorrow... but then, twenty-four hours ahead of the scheduled launch date of the 2012 Caterham car, F1 Racing magazine and the Caterham Facebook page decided to jump the gun. So here we are...
The announcement today that Bruno Senna is to take up the remaining seat at Williams for 2012 brought with it publicity photos of the Brazilian driver wearing official team gear – and, as can be seen, it’s a brand new shirt: Strange as it may seem, I reckon there’s...
I’ll be honest with you upfront: this isn’t going to be the most interesting year for this. Remember back in 2010, when we had all the new teams coming in but didn’t know what most of them were going to look like? Ah, happy days. Skip forward to 2012,...
Well. How about this, then? I was actually going to wait until the site’s fifth birthday, on 12th January, to launch this – but I got everything ready a bit more quickly than anticipated, and couldn’t bring myself to wait an entire week to unleash it on you. So...
The third of our Livery Histories looks at a team that were close to my heart in the mid to late ’90s – Benetton Formula. The team didn’t win a lot of friends in the early ’90s, thanks to a series of controversies including the “poaching” of Michael Schumacher...
Each year, once the teams’ liveries have been rounded up, I’ve meant to do a post about the drivers’ helmets as well, and never got around to it. Well, SHOCK HORROR: for 2011, I’ve finally done it. I’m not as into helmet liveries as I am those of the...
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