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  • will be almost indistinguishable from the Haas
  • sam3110 said:
    That's what I expected a lot of cars to look like this season, lots of bare carbon to keep weight down to a minimum. 

    How long until a team finds a way to colour the carbon enough to technically run with no paint at all, just stickers?
    The reason Mercedes cars are silver is due to weight reducing. Years ago F1 cars raced in their respective countries designated colour (Britain-Green, France-Blue, Belgium-Yellow etc). Germany’s colour was white but in the 30’s their car was over the weight limit so they stripped the paint to get it under and created the Silver Arrows.
    Nice story. 

    Unfortunately it's completely untrue and just some random claptrap the 1930's version of Toto Wolff or Christian Horner made up in his memoirs 
  • sam3110 said:
    will be almost indistinguishable from the Haas

    Forgettable livery for a team you won't see much on TV unless they're retiring. 
  • Its slightly different I guess, but yeah too similar to the Haas which is bloody typical ... Best AT was when it was predominantly white with the rear of the car blue
  • With the amount of black on show (I read Mercedes may be running and black and silver car this year) to allow for bare carbon fibre, I reckon it might be a bit tough distinguishing between cars on TV this year.
  • With the amount of black on show (I read Mercedes may be running and black and silver car this year) to allow for bare carbon fibre, I reckon it might be a bit tough distinguishing between cars on TV this year.
    Yeah their race suits dont have any of the Petronas blue in it this year, so be surprised if its on the car as well.
  • With the amount of black on show (I read Mercedes may be running and black and silver car this year) to allow for bare carbon fibre, I reckon it might be a bit tough distinguishing between cars on TV this year.
    Yeah their race suits dont have any of the Petronas blue in it this year, so be surprised if its on the car as well.
    Do you mean green?
  • With the amount of black on show (I read Mercedes may be running and black and silver car this year) to allow for bare carbon fibre, I reckon it might be a bit tough distinguishing between cars on TV this year.
    Yeah their race suits dont have any of the Petronas blue in it this year, so be surprised if its on the car as well.
    Do you mean green?
    Blue / Green, more of an Aqua colour
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  • With the amount of black on show (I read Mercedes may be running and black and silver car this year) to allow for bare carbon fibre, I reckon it might be a bit tough distinguishing between cars on TV this year.
    Yeah their race suits dont have any of the Petronas blue in it this year, so be surprised if its on the car as well.
    Do you mean green?
    Blue / Green, more of an Aqua colour
    Hmmm.
  • Love the blue on this :)


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    Still think the Aston should have an awful lot more of the lime green on it, like their GT cars. 


  • sam3110 said:
    Still think the Aston should have an awful lot more of the like green on it, like their GT cars. 



    It's going to be difficult to tell a lot of the grid apart this season with all the exposed carbon everywhere for weight saving, would have loved this colour on the Aston.
  • sam3110 said:

    Yet more black!  Looks a bit boring - they should have added some yellow to spice it up a bit (yellow being Ferrari's traditional colour)...
  • Alpine was also spotted on track.
  • CafcWest said:
    sam3110 said:

    Yet more black!  Looks a bit boring - they should have added some yellow to spice it up a bit (yellow being Ferrari's traditional colour)...
    Yeah the Ferrari, Ceva and Aws logos, and the race number should all be in yellow too and it would look a lot better
  • LTKapal said:
    Alpine was also spotted on track.
    Could be the bad picture but that sidepod looks very different from any of last years

    Ferrari is my favourite livery so far - looks a stronger shade of red than last year. Disappointing how boring they all are in the main though.
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  • LTKapal said:
    Alpine was also spotted on track.
    Could be the bad picture but that sidepod looks very different from any of last years

    Ferrari is my favourite livery so far - looks a stronger shade of red than last year. Disappointing how boring they all are in the main though.
    There's still a surprising amount of variation in side-pod design. usually by now everyone has figured out who has the best concept and started copying it, but none of the concepts look identical, although they all seem to be generally shrinking. Ferrari look to have some of the biggest and most "traditional" looking side-pods.
  • sam3110 said:
    That's what I expected a lot of cars to look like this season, lots of bare carbon to keep weight down to a minimum. 

    How long until a team finds a way to colour the carbon enough to technically run with no paint at all, just stickers?
    I got my answer 
  • sam3110 said:
    sam3110 said:
    That's what I expected a lot of cars to look like this season, lots of bare carbon to keep weight down to a minimum. 

    How long until a team finds a way to colour the carbon enough to technically run with no paint at all, just stickers?
    I got my answer 
    Yeah Toto has just said exactly what you originally quoted about the bare carbon keeping the weight down.
  • Yeah that looks great, really really nice
  • Best looking car so far. 
  • Demonic!
  • The Mercedes looks stunning. Still no side pods though, which didn’t prove beneficial last year. Fingers crossed they’ve got it covered off this time.
  • Is it testing this weekend?
  • Is it testing this weekend?
    No, 23-25 Feb in Bahrain.
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