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Looking at all the cars we've seen so far, is is safe to say that those cars are what we expect to see on track comes testing or do we think they are going to be vastly different? When I started looking at them earlier in the week, especially with the Red Bull launch, I just thought they are just going to show up off their livery and not so much the actual cars.

But seen the Mercedes, the Ferrari and Cadillac hit the track, I'm thinking those are what the actual car designs are going to be and if that's truly the case, they all seem very very similar with some element of the front wing, shape of side pods and maybe the rear wing being the clear differences. I think all the car looks great and I'm really liking this regulation overall design.

After looking at all of them again, the Mercedes looks really nice.
 
The Ferrari looks like a 1991 Dallara.
 
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I think it looks really good, classy, the white works very well, the black front wing is classic, the only jarring thing once again are the blue HP logos but other than that, very nice indeed.
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Not a fan of the black on the side of the nose. The carbon aero parts give the car enough black around the bottom already, no need to extend that into the mid section of the body with the livery.
I'm certain in red it would make the car look much better, or even add a slight fade effect with going from bright red on top down to a dark red on the bottom.
 
The Alpine is the first one that is genuinely just the same as last year's livery.
 
Liquid
The Ferrari looks like a 1991 Dallara.
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I was thinking 1993 Ferrari, but they're pretty much the same.
 
We (I) want an all-pink Alpine :grumpy:
 
Imbissbrunto
Looks easy enough, I‘m probably going to recreate the design in the game tonight when I‘m back home from work and the gym.
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Archerwell
I’m following the 2026 F1 season closely curious to see how the new regulations shake up the Constructors’ Championship. It feels like a fresh start for a few teams.
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Watch it be like 2014 again :lol:
 
I don’t think the white upper/intake does the Ferrari any good. It would have looked stunning in all red.
 
The white on the Ferrari does not look good imo, red or even black would be better.
 
Veinz
The white on the Ferrari does not look good imo, red or even black would be better.
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Honestly, they should have just made a design similar to the SF-24 with white HP logos. The blue just clashes with the bright red base color. That simple fix alone would improve the livery‘s overall visual harmony a lot imo.

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phillgt2002
I don’t think the white upper/intake does the Ferrari any good. It would have looked stunning in all red.
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Unnfortunately, HP said "we gave you a lot of money so make our logo more visible" so that's why we got this instead. They could have made the balance a lot worse, though, so it's fine for what it is.
 
That logo is more visible on a red body than it is now b/c it contrasts heavily on an all-red car. That was the whole reason they did a white stripe last season, so the giant logo blends better into the body. This year is a better attempt by spreading out the white & trying to imitate the 312T.
 
At this point, since Ferrari clearly doesn't care when they've got 100 million dollars in front of them, they should just run the Miami HP livery all season long since any other way they put it looks terrible. May as well make a statement and go full awful :lol:
 
Gerarghini
At this point, since Ferrari clearly doesn't care when they've got 100 million dollars in front of them, they should just run the Miami HP livery all season long since any other way they put it looks terrible. May as well make a statement and go full awful :lol:
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Bud, I believe thats been Ferrari's whole problem to begin with :lol:
 
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Imbissbrunto
Honestly, they should have just made a design similar to the SF-24 with white HP logos. The blue just clashes with the bright red base color. That simple fix alone would improve the livery‘s overall visual harmony a lot imo.

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I want to see a modern day version of this, simple but menacing. I don't like how they use white on their liveries.

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I always think that a livery only really works if and when the car is successful - and if the car sucks, a risky or divisive livery always seems just that bit worse for some reason... like, it's bad enough the car sucks, it doesn't need to look bad too 😅
 
Complaining about Ferrari liveries is just part of the sport for some people I think.

The 1990 car looks great because it's a great shape - I'm not sure such a simple paint would work on the modern shaped cars.. people would complain that it looks unfinished or the proportions of the logos are wrong or something....

I think the new one is fine, good even because the proportion of the car is so much improved - it looks like a subtle homage to the 312T... if it's fast people will love it, if it's slow people will complain.
 
Designing a an interesting livery for a modern open wheel car isn't easy because unlike something based on a road-going vehicle, there aren't a lot of large, flat vertical spaces anymore due to how far aerodynamics has come along. A single-color design tends to look unfinished, adding small details can look great if the car is stationary but may come across as cluttered or too busy when it's in motion and the TV cameras are tracking it. Even just getting the sponsor logos in the right proportions is challenging since the sidepods have shrunk and rounded off so much in the last decade, never mind the slab-sided cars from the '80s and '90s.
 
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The white could serve a technical purpose as well. It perhaps lowers the intake air temperature on the car.
 
3 hours into the first Shakedown, Alpine and Audi (after 27 laps) causing a red flag early. Red Bull also getting some laps with their new engine. Number of laps is more important than times here, current fastest lap is 11 sec off pole position lap from last season.

Let's see when Aston will join, either wednesday or thursday. Poor Nando, hope he doesnt get another GP2 engine
 
Glanced that and I thought it was an Indycar until I realised it was the F1 car.
 
I'm curious to see how much downforce they lose if one of those inwash things behind the front wheels break off, they look fragile.
 

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psychoazubi
3 hours into the first Shakedown, Alpine and Audi (after 27 laps) causing a red flag early. Red Bull also getting some laps with their new engine. Number of laps is more important than times here, current fastest lap is 11 sec off pole position lap from last season.

Let's see when Aston will join, either wednesday or thursday. Poor Nando, hope he doesnt get another GP2 engine
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That engine switch is going well for Alpine I see :lol:
 
Veinz
I'm curious to see how much downforce they lose if one of those inwash things behind the front wheels break off, they look fragile.
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I'm wondering the same thing. They look like they stick out so much from behind the front wheels that it just seems like we are going to see a lot of parts flying off when people are driving side by side and they make contact.
 
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