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AlphaTauri best livery so far.

Sergio Perez has been making some interesting comments about how the Red Bull is difficult to drive. Essentially he's said it's all front end grip and a loose rear end. Admittedly this is what we've known for all of 2020 but Perez is driving the latest spec, the one that looked, in the hands of Verstappen at least, so good in Abu Dhabi.

I hope his wealth of experience means he can adapt to the car or it could be tough for him this year.

Seen a lot in the motor press about this being Red Bulls year. If this years car is just a psycho as lasts then I very much doubt that but respect the efforts of the RBR PR team

Once Mercedes roll out their car I'm pretty sure it won't matter what Red Bull does. The only reason they caught up so much last year is because Mercedes quit developing that car so early in order to focus on this years.

 

I expect another walkover for Hamilton and Mercedes but Verstappen could take second if Bottas has as much bad luck as last year

 

I think the only way Hamilton will be beaten is if he has a ropey start to the season. In 2016 he didn't win any of the first 5 races and was on the backfoot from then on. It would take some serious bad luck (remember he hasn't had a retirement since mid-2018!) or for Bottas 5.0 to turn into peak Mika Hakkinen but stranger things have happened. Then again, there are 23 races this season so loads of time to catch up if necessary.

 

Interestingly Hamilton has only won the first race of a season twice in his career (a mad stat in itself) which is the same as Bottas!

I like the look of the black Mercedes and I respect the gesture but it still feels wrong that they’re not silver

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The only car launch today worth paying any attention to is of course the Alpine-Renault who have revealed their beautiful new blue livery in a video featuring famous Alpine-Renault’s from the past including the LMP2 word series winner and their infamous Le Mans winner from back in the day. The Blue is the traditional Alpine Blue which is such a lovely colour.

 

 

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(The BBC article about the other car launch from they who don’t deserve to be named notes that “TWDDTBN unveil Dickheads 2021 F1 car” which begs the question when does Bottas have his car revealed? Or does he not get one this year? Are they only fielding one car? Is their dominance so big they now believe they can ruin another year and take both trophies again with just one car? Or are the BBC just dicks? I suspect the latter)

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Spectacular 🥰

 

 

And we know what Alonso can do in beautiful blue French F1 cars with Renault engines 😉

Very nice livery, just behind AlphaTauri for me so far. Aston Martin is the one I'm looking forward to the most this week.

 

(Shame their live reveal on YouTube was laggy as hell).

Looks more like a Ligier than a Renault (and let's be honest, it doesn't matter what they call it, it's still a Renault).

That said, it'll be nice to have some traditional French blue back on track even if I still think they should've stayed as Renault and therefore be yellow.

 

 

Yeah I do agree that I’d have preferred that it stayed Renault. I do get what the new CEO is trying to do, but Alpine was always Rally and built its rep directly from that. Renault push hard on the link from the F1 to the road car but Heyho I guess he knows what he’s doing as he’s the one being paid the mega bucks and somehow made Seat semi desirable again 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

 

I dislike the AT livery so Alpine is my number one but I was always gonna be a lil bias

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Beautiful, love seeing green back on the F1 grid.

Dmitry Mazepin: "Nikita can't race under the Russian flag, so we'll have him race *in* the Russian flag" 🙄

 

Rankings (in terms of car visuals, obviously not performance) so far...

 

01 | Alpine Renault - Looks SO SLICK in the blue! Fun fact: Renault powered cars have only won F1 championships sporting a notably blue (with accent colours [Camel, Rothmans, Mild Seven, and Red Bull [at a push, but navy is still blue]) livery...

02 | Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari - Flipping the colours makes it even more beautiful that the last couple of years!

03 | Red Bull Racing Honda - You know what you're getting, and it looks great

04 | Mercedes - Does similar to Aston, with (understandably) extra sponsors to fill the gaps!

05 | Aston Martin Mercedes - Preferred the pink (only for how different it was), but this is sleek. The pink accents don't feel out of place either...

06 | Haas Ferrari - Livery change for obvious reasons, I quite like it... Even if it is a marked step down from the above...

07 | AlphaTauri Honda - It's a FASHION brand. Why does it look... So dull? Toro Rosso's later liveries were amongst the best...

08 | McLaren MERCEDES - LOVE the orange and blue. That's where it ends. For a team with SO MANY sponsors, why is the engine cover so empty? I know they don't need to have the Merc logo, but people were excited for it coming back... Poor decision to omit, when it's a legendary combination...

 

Livery not officially revealed

Ferrari

Williams Mercedes

 

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Very meh livery, don't like white F1 cars in general so glad there's fewer of them this season.

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