F1 wants better car liveries for 2025

Might 31 (GMM) F1’s governing physique is getting ready to intervene with the intention to enhance the standard of the groups’ automobile liveries from 2025.

As the scale and weight of the automobiles swelled in recent times to accommodate ever-more-expensive hybrid applied sciences, groups progressively started eradicating paint – which may add as much as a number of kilograms per automobile.

More and more, lots of the F1 automobiles of 2024 now have a unadorned black carbon base and are coated sparingly for color and sponsors.

In accordance with the Spanish newspaper Diario Sport, this has develop into a “drawback” from the FIA’s perspective – and it’s a place reportedly additionally backed by Liberty Media-owned Components One Administration.

“One drawback is that the automobiles have an excessive amount of naked carbon, because of the weight of the paint, so the automobiles have an excessive amount of black,” mentioned Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA’s single seater boss.

“A whole lot of work has additionally been executed by all of the groups to alter the kind of paint. In truth, a variety of it at present is extraordinarily skinny movie, to maintain the burden as little as potential,” he added.

“The result’s that some groups appear to make use of comparable color schemes, so that they find yourself with automobiles that look similar to one another,” mentioned Tombazis.

“We’re nonetheless discussing it with the groups, and it is going to be mentioned on the subsequent F1 Fee.”

Nevertheless, he mentioned a neater answer would merely be for the groups to informally talk with one another and say “Effectively, in case your automobile is blue right here, mine gained’t be blue there”.

“We don’t need to be making laws on liveries, however we do need the automobiles to be distinguishable,” Tombazis added.

The issue has additionally been worsened by the drivers, he explains.

“Previously, drivers had extra recognisable helmets as a result of there have been less complicated designs,” mentioned Tombazis. “And now with the change in laws, which permits helmet design adjustments, all of them have these enjoyable designs.

“Plus, the spectators don’t see the helmet anyway due to the halo. We have to discover some method to make it so folks can inform if it’s (George) Russell or (Lewis) Hamilton.”

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