With curtains falling at the bold F1 75 event at London’s O2 Arena, all of the 10 livelies used by Formula 1 teams in 2025 are apparent between different musical performances and clearly diverse presentations from each team It has become.
Everyone will have their own opinion on whether (old specs) cars are most dressed at night, and the beauty of the colouring design is that it is purely subjective art That’s what it means. Even last year’s “coloring” in Takayama probably had fans somewhere.
Throughout the 2025 season, we will continue to evaluate each driver after every race, but on this occasion we will give the mark out of 10 for liver presentations this season.
Whether it’s an upgrade to last season’s paint scheme, it is marked ingenuity for the author’s own preferences. My fellow writers disagree. You’d be surprised if you did that too. You have the opportunity to provide your own perspective in comments.
Don’t struggle any more…
Aston Martin Racing AMR25
Photo: Aston Martin
This colouring is a major downgrade. It’s hard to make a mistake with British racing green, especially with the modern icon of Aston Martin’s fluorescent yellow trim, but the black side pods look completely inconsistent with the rest of the colouring.
Is that a hint that the AMR25 will be deployed to Bahrain with a bit of weight issues, and that the Bahrain test revised sidepods will become naked carbon? Certainly, I’m waiting while exhaling…
It’s hard to love the new direction of colouring, especially as Aston Martin played this very safely and could have appeared in something that still looks stellar.
Red Bull Racing RB21
Photo: Red Bull Content Pool
same. As usual. It’s a bit tired (and the frizzy factor in the presentation) brings it down to some points.
Is there anything to add? Oh, the rear wing sponsors are different. That’s…something.
Williams FW47
Photo: Williams
It’s blue. Very blue. In other words, if you like blue, there is a dark blue to medium blue gradient inside the car. But that’s a bit off… maybe a low effort? The tessellation blue pattern on the previous couple’s cars is gone, and the bullying of the yellow engine cover used at the end of last season is nothing but a distant memory.
As Williams signed what is advertised as the biggest title partnership ever, the overall colouring seems to be simplified to highlight the rather visible Atlassian logo that has now been added to the engine cover. is.
The Duracell battery engine cover remains, but the novelty is probably worn out.
Sauber C45 kick
Photo: Liberty Media
A key issue with the colouring in 2024 was that it looked somewhat pedestrian. Efforts to save weight using nude carbon have completely attenuated the possibility of leading in the neon green scheme.
Thankfully, this year’s efforts are much more cohesive. The use of the green, which was clearly influenced by the better reception that Las Vegas production got, is more liberal in the first two-thirds of the car. Next is the fade gradient that moves into what appears to be bare carbon at the rear.
The cars displayed at the event appeared to be in much less colouring than the launch images revealed by the team in press material. If the actual car looks like a rendered image, it can be a hit if its gradient actually blends well with carbon.
McLaren MCL39
Photo: McLaren
Team Principal Andrea Stella said McLaren hopes to continue with the winner of the constructor championship from 2024. It maintains a flash of papaya draped over black carbon in the exact same arrangement as before.
For those who want something a little more from the team, you’ll be disappointed. In the end, no matter what stretch it is, it’s not a bad colouring either, but that’s not great either. It simply exists to maintain its post-loron Dennis-era identity and serve as a platform for its rich commercial partners. Are there more oranges? yes. Could the team play a little more form factor? yes. But hey, they like what they had – and it’s fine.
Haas VF-25
Photo: Haas F1 Team
There’s less carbon in the bare, and more opportunities for designers to bending creative chops. Haas provided what should stand out more than the usual conservative efforts.
The fresh spins of white, black and red tones that have been packed in the past few seasons look great. And it’s refreshing to see the side pods become a slightly brighter treatment than they spread across your face.
Is it outstanding from the batch? No, but it definitely represents one of the brand’s loyalty and more imaginative efforts from the American team.
Ferrari SF-25
Photo: Ferrari
Although it is red, it looks like a much more bloody shade, just like 2022, but it is a shade of red that has been in use over the past few years. White, naturally added to the engine cover to highlight HP title sponsorship, is back in the days of Michael Schumacher.
The yellow notebook is gone. This is a bit sad. And if we’re really loud, Unicredit’s sponsorship doesn’t sit perfectly well with other cars. The white outline looks a bit clumsy. At least the accent stripes are associated with similar world endurance championship colouring.
I don’t dislike this. In fact, wrapping HP’s corporate desires into Ferrari’s historic back catalogue is a decent effort. But I think I’m in the minority.
Mercedes F1 W16
Photo: Getty Images
It’s the same, but different. The extra silver on the engine cover and sides is a great touch, and upgrades the already important 2024 colouring. It usually leaves the red flash surrounding the branding of the roll hoop, causing questions about the extent of Ineos’ involvement with the team.
The use of Petronas Teal remains a hobby separated from silver by using black around the car, and proper Mercedes branding continues to smack the more obese spots of the colouring.
Like we said, it’s an upgrade and I really like it. Perhaps there is an imaginative range around the side pods, leaving it black with teal flash. Otherwise, it’s a nice colouring.
Alpine A525
Photo: Alpine
It’s more similar! After last year’s miserable efforts avoided painting along the overweight chassis, we have begun to add a little more paint to our car, at least towards the end of 2024. Painting work similar to the 1992 BT60B of F1 Esoterica and Brabham.
The pink nose is not perfectly merged with the metal blue, so carbon black is kept reserved, creating a space between the two. It was a welcome sight to see Alpine’s “proper” branded colours back in Formula 1, and the team was bold with the inventive contrast between the colours. In other words, it’s the carbon-rich liver disgust of last year.
More notes: The team opened the engine cover colouring space to new fuel partner ENI for the first time since 2000 (when it was AGIP). -This is all about the unique colouring. Quite a turnaround – Chapoe, Alpine.
Racing Bulls VCarb 02
Photo: Red Bull Content Pool
“White like a turkey’s teeth,” said comedian Munyawawa, who was brought in to present the team’s new identity. And…it’s very white, but with the clearest Red Bull iconography the team has used since their time as Toro Rosso.
There is a yellow nose cap and roll hoop sandwiched between the scar color of the energy drink brand Burgogo. The white background is likely even better for the myriad sponsors involved, and we have to resort to the clumsy white-colored blocks thrown into the metal blue tones used by RB last year.
The car has at least a bit of blue, but it’s at the rear as it progresses to a more dark blue to white MC Escher-esque transition, but with more Red Bull logos.
Think of Red Bull’s respected 2020 Türkiye’s one-off colouring. But that’s still pretty good.
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