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2012 Livery Speculation

January 16, 2012 | 6 Comments

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, however, and it’s a very different story – twelve teams on the grid that, with the odd exception, will almost certainly run in liveries identical to the ones they had in 2011 (and, in some cases, the ones they had in 2012). But tradition is tradition, and with the launch season starting so late this year (at the time of writing, no team is scheduled to launch their car before February), I need something to write about, so let’s do a rundown of what we might be expecting to see this year…

2012 Begins! Caterham Pics Leaked

January 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

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… I suppose I’m fortunate that, as a liveries blog, I only have to talk about the paint job and not the shape of the thing, because… well. Wow. Certainly, it’s not that lovely shade of green, held over from the Team Lotus days, that everyone else is going to be discussing. Anyway, as for the livery,...

New Williams shirt offers hints at livery and sponsors

January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

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 a lot that we can take from this pic about how their 2012 car is going to look. Firstly, although similar in style, the shirt is different enough from the 2011 team shirt that it’s clearly not just an old one with a few new logos stitched onto it. We...

F1 Colours – The New Era

January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

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...

Livery Histories #3: Benetton

August 11, 2011 | 6 Comments

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...

Class of 2011: The Helmets

April 4, 2011 | 6 Comments

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...

2011 Liveries: The Verdict(s)

March 14, 2011 | 12 Comments

Right, then. We’ve now seen all twelve of 2011′s Formula One liveries. I wanted to wait, before doing the usual summary post, until we’d seen them all running on track in testing – but frankly, from the looks of things we may not see the HRT in motion before...

New Williams livery: just don’t say “Rothmans”

February 24, 2011 | 17 Comments

So, then. The new Williams is basically a continuation of the team’s post-BMW identity (with the layout of the nose section in particular deviating little from the 2010 version), but infused with a deliberate nod back to a certain era in the team’s past. Although, blimey, it’s a weird...

New Force India a bit different, too!

February 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

Did they know the Hispania was also going to be white and do this consciously? Kudos, anyway, to Force India for taking their basic colour scheme and actually changing it year on year. Although from the front at least, you can’t help but wonder if they’ve employed the same...

Well, that’s… new…

February 8, 2011 | 15 Comments

Right, then. Let’s look at this in a bit more detail. Wow. So given that they were the team with comfortably the worst livery on the grid last season, it would have been difficult for HRT to go downwards this year. As it is, with the hiring of a...

F1 Colours on Twitter!

February 8, 2011 | No Comments

I really should have thought to do this at the start of the livery launch season, but nevertheless – if you’re Twitter-inclined, you can now follow the site at @f1colours. As well as keeping you informed about when the site’s updated, I’ll also use the account to post smaller...

Are You Midland In Disguise?

February 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

The 2010 Virgin was one of the best-looking cars on last year’s grid, so it was always going to be interesting seeing what sort of livery they’d roll out with this year in their new, Marussia-Virgin incarnation. The answer is that the 2011 car features an evolution, rather than...

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