Formula 1 2023

[Guest]

Oh look, another clown car. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

So very meh.  Especially w/ decades of Gulf liveries to give inspiration.

I think the Williams looks decent, but yeah... the winning livery is right in the background. The crew are literally all right next to it.

[elfenix 34169]

Let's see if Aston can win February

[Mittens 8148]

Meet the AMR23, same as the AMR22.

[G650 14074]

Well with Astons unveiling I'm officially on team there's too much black in these cars this year

[Burt Macklin 18989]

4 hours ago, Mittens said:

So very meh.  Especially w/ decades of Gulf liveries to give inspiration.

The Gulf livery would look better, but Gulf is a much or sponsor. They’re only paying like $4 million. No chanceany team would go with a full gulf livery all year for that little money. 

[PittsburghTiger 6137]

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.gallery-check-out-every-angle-of-aston-martins-2023-f1-car-and-livery.1uEMgsasHptZMPm4fsFd7P.html

[ChickenSandwich 9798]

4 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Oh look, another clown car. 

Designer had their infant puke on a canvas. 
 

Fin

[wood 11121]

1 hour ago, G650 said:

Well with Astons unveiling I'm officially on team there's too much black in these cars this year

Lighter cars get more paint. Unfortunately, these cars are absolute hogs.

[wood 11121]

I do dig this look though ...

[wood 11121]

The Aston livery looks the same as before, but the car is very different. This is Dan Fellows's first car at Aston, and it shows.

Edited February 14, 2023 by wood

[wood 11121]

 

[wood 11121]

 

[Guest]

Huge fan of the "Ferrari" on the rear wing. They started doing that last year about mid-season and it looks so much cooler than blank.

Is Mercedes the only one left? As for liveries, except for Alfa, they all look pretty much the same.

[VABuckeye 2472]

1 hour ago, wood said:

 

So it looks like Charles and Carlos are one of the 40% of the drivers in the paddock that get along well.

[wood 11121]

*Fallows. Not Fellows. Oops. Dang.

[ConferenceRoom 6123]

4 minutes ago, wood said:

*Fallows. Not Fellows. Oops. Dang.

[wood 11121]

FYI Tobias Gruner from AMuS is a great twitter follow.

 

[ChickenSandwich 9798]

Black CEVA logo is a straight WTF

[utee94 15744]

1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Black CEVA logo is a straight WTF

It definitely makes the CEVA standout more than the previous version did, which might have been an ask from the sponsor...

 

Overall I like the new livery, and I liked the old one.  They're obviously pretty similar.

 

 

Edited February 14, 2023 by utee94

[dieucla98 2933]

Silver Arrows should be silver, blah blah blah. Don't care, that black Merc W14 livery looks awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 15, 2023 by dieucla98

[Guest]

Hell yes it does. Glad to finally have a car livery that looks mean.

The Merc looks like it would shove the McLaren into its locker.

Edited February 15, 2023 by FirstTimeCaller

[utee94 15744]

Blech.  Boring AF.

[dieucla98 2933]

7 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Blech.  Boring AF.

But you like the Ferrari livery? 🤨

[utee94 15744]

On the bright side, it was somewhat harder to dislike Merc when they were sporting that beautiful silver and airbrushed teal from several years back.

It's much easier to dislike this boring ugly car with its squished-down sidepods reminiscent of an aging stripper with a failing boob job.

So in that sense, keep on keeping on, Mercedes.

Just now, dieucla98 said:

But you like the Ferrari livery? 🤨

Yup.  It's pretty classic.  

[dieucla98 2933]

To each their own I guess. Merc's livery is the only one that really made me say wow. But I like change and they had the most substantial of any mfg.

Unveiling a 99% the same livery is boring AF. I'd rather see them take a chance.

[utee94 15744]

1 minute ago, dieucla98 said:

To each their own I guess. Merc's livery is the only one that really made me say wow. But I like change and they had the most substantial of any mfg.

Unveiling a 99% the same livery is boring AF. I'd rather see them take a chance.

I'd rather see them look good than change for the sake of change.  To each his own, indeed.  

[G650 14074]

I'm over all the black, but I will say Merc looks pretty mean.

 

I'm mostly disappointed in Aston not being all gorgeous green.

[Native Horn 3485]

I hate the offseason.

[TexEx15 17456]

On 2/7/2023 at 9:23 AM, ChickenSandwich said:

Read somewhere we will see more black on cars incase they need to strip paint for weight savings again. The exposed carbon wont look as out of place 

 

3 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

Silver Arrows should be silver, blah blah blah. Don't care, that black Merc W14 livery looks awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mittens 8148]

1 hour ago, G650 said:

I'm over all the black, but I will say Merc looks pretty mean.

Same.  I guess if you're going to go down that road, go hard.

[utee94 15744]

All Black belongs on a pitch in New Zealand, not on a Formula 1 car.

 

 

[PittsburghTiger 6137]

20 hours ago, wood said:

*Fallows. Not Fellows. Oops. Dang.

That Fine Fellow Fallows

[PittsburghTiger 6137]

Silver Arrow. It should be SILVER

[wood 11121]

3 hours ago, utee94 said:

On the bright side, it was somewhat harder to dislike Merc when they were sporting that beautiful silver and airbrushed teal from several years back.

It's much easier to dislike this boring ugly car with its squished-down sidepods reminiscent of an aging stripper with a failing boob job.

So in that sense, keep on keeping on, Mercedes

Yeah it's not nearly as appealing as their previous black livery imho. The only 'mean' looking thing about it, too, is the color black. The accents are just blah, like you said, and soften it up.

Re: the car itself, wow, they really made some major changes aero-wise.

[TexEx15 17456]

Much of the black on the W14 is actually exposed carbon fiber, which is gorgeous. Black on carbon fiber Darth Vader vibes. Best livery by a mile.

[G650 14074]

18 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

Much of the black on the W14 is actually exposed carbon fiber, which is gorgeous. Black on carbon fiber Darth Vader vibes. Best livery by a mile.

Yeah, it's pretty badass imo.

[wood 11121]

The ramp on this car is insane.

[Anton Chigurh 3318]

Much of the black on the W14 is actually exposed carbon fiber, which is gorgeous. Black on carbon fiber Darth Vader vibes. Best livery by a mile.

It’s not as cool as the W11 (which is hard to do, also my favorite car ever), but I do get these vibes from it.

And yes I absolutely love the black, too.

[wood 11121]

 

[wood 11121]

Some pretty interesting tunnels on some of these cars (up high on the engine cover, running from the halo to the exhaust) ...

 

And it seems Merc & probably others have found a way to re-introduce outwash ... because of course they would.

[Huckleberry 32694]

On 2/15/2023 at 8:47 AM, dieucla98 said:

Merc's livery is the only one that really made me say wow.

It's black. With a stripe. 

[dieucla98 2933]

14 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

It's black. With a stripe. 

You have good eyes, clearly. I'm jealous.

I like clean and simple which I know is not really what an F1 car goes for. Difficult to with 90,000 sponsors on the car.

[elfenix 34169]

On 2/15/2023 at 11:38 AM, PittsburghTiger said:

Silver Arrow. It should be SILVER

Silver arrows weren't painted so an exposed carbon merc is arguably more in line with heritage than a silver painted one.

 

Wonder what audi does with it's livery? Silver arrow is part of Audi's heritage too (tho it needs to be Sepang Blue and Sepang needs to come back)

[PittsburghTiger 6137]

21 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Silver arrows weren't painted so an exposed carbon merc is arguably more in line with heritage than a silver painted one.

 

Wonder what audi does with it's livery? Silver arrow is part of Audi's heritage too (tho it needs to be Sepang Blue and Sepang needs to come back)

Eh, we all know they were not painted. Germany's official racing color is Silver. The Silver Arrows should indeed be, silver.

[ConferenceRoom 6123]

Any team can use any color they want. This is a silly hang up. 

[elfenix 34169]

49 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Eh, we all know they were not painted. Germany's official racing color is Silver. The Silver Arrows should indeed be, silver.

And it was white before it was silver.

 

Maybe these are black arrows.

[wood 11121]

13 minutes ago, elfenix said:

And it was white before it was silver.

Maybe these are black arrows.

Yep, and they were silver in the first place as a way to save weight, or as Colin Chapman would put it, to "add lightness". Same reason they're black/CF now and others are showing more bare CF than ever. Some are still fairly well-covered, maybe the ones that came in under weight.

Edited February 16, 2023 by wood

[wood 11121]

A few 2023 buckets ...

Leclerc

Spoiler

Fernando

George

Zhou

Sargent

Lando

Hulk

Sainz

Ocon. Very cool helmet, but fuck him.

Yuki

Hulk

 

Lewis

Edited February 16, 2023 by wood

[Huckleberry 32694]

2 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

You have good eyes, clearly. I'm jealous.

I like clean and simple which I know is not really what an F1 car goes for. Difficult to with 90,000 sponsors on the car.

If any other team came out with that livery (with an appropriate stripe color for their team) they would have been mocked for mailing it in.