Chainbear shows us the detailed process of what goes into livery design in Formula 1, from concept to finished livery, and what works and what doesn't.
I reckon this year's grid looks better than they have in yonks. From the beaut arse of Sauber and popping Paprika McLaren to the quintessential classic beauty of the Merc and Fezza, they're such a pretty lot.
Andrey D I think someone asked the Mercedes team about this with their black livery this year and some engineers from Mercedes did a full thermodynamic breakdown showing that the extra heat a black livery gains from the sun compared to a white livery is absolutely negligible in comparison to the operating temperatures of the car and engine, to the point where engineers don’t even need to worry about or consider it.
@@bobbobbington3932 Yeah. Sunlight is a little over 1 kW per square meter of area. So even if the body absorbed all of it, it would only be single digit kilowatts of extra heat on something that already produces over a thousand kilowatts of waste heat.
don't think it affects airflow, but light won't bounce of it as easily, so its harder for the person in front looking back and the person behind looking forward to get blinded by light reflecting of the car
Felix Schumann What? That’s not the reason they do it at all. It might be slipperier if done right (think of a golf ball). They spend so much time taping the engine cover and other panel gaps just to save a few thousandths of a second a lap. I know the paint finish affects airflow or aerodynamic geniuses like Newey wouldn’t cover their cars with matte paint.
Hmm...not even a passing mention of Red Bull's designs and their latest Matte finish look? Also surprised the Brawn GP livery wasn't mentioned, with its fluoroscent green accents and even tyrewalls!
The chrome and red mclaren livery was undoubtedly one of my favourite modern classics, still had hints of their days with west but the red really made it stand out.
Thank you! You answered questions that had floated about for ages, and questions I didn't even know I wanted answered! I really enjoyed that. Please keep on doing these videos, I've been watching F1 (when possible) since the end of Graham Hill's career, yet I have so much more to learn. I was only little when Hill died, btw, but we did get to see highlights of Monaco and the whole British GP. Whenever there's a clip of old cars it makes me grin!
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I very much agree that we have a colourful grid again. I still think Haas' liveries are very underwelming. They are an American team, there is so much room for improvement. The Sauber/Williams issue should be fixed next year as Martini is leaving Williams, so they will have a new major sponsor. McLaren needs to step up as well in the livery department. I live the orange, but it's still a very lazy design .
I agree, it's very underwhelming that Haas doesn't have red and white stripes and stars all over the car and bald eagle paintbrushed onto the nose of the car. And some FREEDOM FLAMES. (I watch a lot of RCR content btw)
@@FortuneRayzor it just looks so corporate. It annoys me that there are people out there that make very solid concept liveries, and then the real teams roll out these bland liveries.
I'd add to the video that livery not only takes a huge amount of time, it also takes a lot of iterations to make a concept idea to be as finished as liveries like Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. I think it would require some strong sponsor brand to "take over" the Haas' overall livery look to feel more familiar to the casual eye (like BWT in the case of Force India). Few shades of gray with red accents won't win the "design innovations of the year" award ever.
Haas is a global team and provider like all of F1 so no US livery. Unlike other teams Gene Haas, a very cool dude (who I wish took over Force India) does not take on other prominent sponsors.The livery matches the CNC machines themselves (perhaps the grey-metallic suggests the metals being cut?) They are best of class in CNC. They could spice it up a bit and have improved from the last iteration - maybe more metallic but you do remember the car which is the point. I wonder if they tone it down a bit just because it an industrial-commercial rather than a consumer product. www.haascnc.com/index.html Make them faster still and then see how puurty they look. Go HAAS, Go Baby Go.
Awesome video as usual. Surprised the matte paint wasn't mentioned during the aero explanation. Williams claim it gives them something like 0.002 of a second advantage per lap. Can't remember why though.
This was something discussed in a reply chain to a comment, but I dont think it's been stated as a comment, or not in any recent comments, not seeing it in two pages of...so let me just give a bit more information. In .... 1904. I think.. there was the first 'Grand Prize' race, arranged by an English fella.... and he invited the manufacturers from around the world...which was essentially the UK, France, Italy, Germany and the US at the time... to compete. Identifying the cars was on the agenda, as even back then, the fastest of the fastest cars could get up some speed... well relatively speaking, for 1904..... so the organisers felt rather than a numbering system... colours would be best used too. Each country was invited to pick a colour. The British cars went with Dark Green... but each slightly different shades... hence, why actually, despite numerous makers having it as a colour option, there is NO definitive British Racing Green... actually..,. numerous shades of dark green are called such. The French with 'French' or 'Royal' Blue...but their interpretation of it, so again, there's not much uniformity on this, either but generally speaking it's narrower spectrum of lighter blue. Germany went with White... and over the years they argued that no colour is White.. so they nicked SIlver too... so hence White or Silver always being the default colours of racing cars from Germany. The US went with Blue too... a darker one... this colour is the base blue used on US sports cars every since, the Corvette, the Cobra, the Mustang....they all have almost the same blue...the White piping and highlights were later added, just to make sure there was no confusion with French Cars...since some of the latter have used much darker blue than usual over the years. So, the Italians, they chose Red, Corsa Rossa, Racing Red.... well it became known as such.... and this was the colour most early Italian racing cars went with there after..,. Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Fiat, Maserati and of course, after WWII ultimately Ferrari. This is why Ferrari still use it to this day, and whilst they HAVE used other colours on their racing cars occasionally over the years, including a shade of 'French' Blue and Fly Yellow... they invariably default back to their national racing colours. This is also why Alfa Romeo have also used bright Red on most of their racing cars, though in recent decades as a highlight colour, on a white, black or shade in between base. It's also why as of a few years ago, and maybe this is changed now, EVERY car made in Italy, from a Fiat to Lamborghini was available in that bright shade of red (as for Lamborghini they are kind of unique in the world of automotive manufacturing, and almost herretically so for an Italian one, in that they've never really been in to racing, it became an unspoken policy just about). Over the years, other cars have entered racing, other teams, and they too continued this trend. Brabhams were 'wattle green' with 'Gold yellow' because they are the Australian sporting colours, meant to be evocative of the Wattle tree in bloom, and every Australian national sporting team plays in uniforms that are this colour, so default, Brabham went with that. Japanese colours are White, with Red highlights... the colours of the Japanese flag...and a popular colour combination for groups looking to indicate theyre Japanese... though unlike Australia say, not all their sports teams use this colour combo. Switzerland pre 1955, had a strong motor racing tradition, and we all know how many amazing drivers it has produced, so they took the Japanese approach, but inverted... like their flag... Red, with White highlights, and chose this colour... though I am not sure it appeared on much, they 'registered' it with the bodies relevant, for use if they wished. This brings us to McLaren. The reason for the Orange is indeed, a throwback to the early cars made when Bruce McLaren was still alive... but HE chose those, because the colour had become regionally, in the Australasia are, the unofficial Racing colours of New Zealand cars...which is highly unusual in this context... as unlike the UK or Japan were they do not have a dedicated universal sporting colours, New Zealand does, generally... Black with white highlights like their Rugby Union team (the creatively named All Blacks) or their Basket Ball team... (the actually genuinely creatively named Tall Blacks)... sometimes inverted... like their soccer team (the equally inspired All Whites)... so McLaren are the only team that when not using their own creation for livery, but the default national racing colours, to be using one NOT the same colour as their national sporting colours (Germany Australia and the US for example all have semi universal national sporting colours, and their default national racing colours match them... though the US drop the Red). Basically this applies to most developed countries, though they might not have teams or manufacturers and might not be in racing, they all have a colour scheme or single colour, that they claim as the default national racing colours. This is something that allows them to have starting point for their cars and bikes even if they have not gotten a ton of sponsors, and marquee deals, and not come up with their own livery, or have means to.
I used to love the grid colors from the early 2000's. Back then we had the Ferrari red, light blue on Benetton, the orange Arrows, yellow on the Jordan, that beautiful and shine green from Jaguar, white BMW issued Williams, dark blue Prost, etc. That was quite a rainbow!
@@Ward413 I guessed it because it has formula style cars and they have a robust livery editor. The actual racing can get a bit dull and repetitive, I'm fact some of the most fun I've had in the have was trying to reach top speeds while going in circles outside the stadiums. I remembered the game after nearly a decade watching Wirtual's video on how he, along with the community, found out shortcuts on one of Trackmania's classic tracks, and how the creator tried to patch them out. I recommend giving it a watch.
I like how the Red Bull and Toro Rosso cars are related by their blue color, but you can still easily keep them apart by the tip of the nose: Toro Rosso has an all-blue nose, while Red Bull has a yellow/orange tip.
I'm certain Red Bull matt colour scheme is to hide shape and shadow on the car to hide small details in the bodywork shape, you could also use other livery lines to break this up too, only good for a couple of races at the start of the season before every angle and every shot is analysed, but that might be enough to gain an advantage.
Livery and colors influences how people look at a team too. I noticed I'm a lot more interested in HAAS with their current color scheme and a lot less interested in McLaren since they changed their late 90's, early 00's look. And despite my disdain for Renault in general, their current color palette does soothe my anti bias and allow myself to enjoy their performance. Aside from performance and attitude, people are influenced by the aesthetics of the team and the sport. Hence why so many people opposed the F1 logo change because their previous one was fine. It had some cleverness to it with the hidden transparent *1* in there. Now it is extremely simplistic. Not necessarily a bad thing, I personally don't feel as opposed now than when they had just changed it.
Didn't know that paint was so heavy, difficult and important to set without loosing aero and weight... Of course the rest of the video was good to know too, Nice work (y)
You just gave me the answer to a question i was asking myself quite often: why do the mechanics always polish the cars with a cloth in the garage. I thought they did it when the camera was around to give the impression of being constantly at work even when there wasn't anything to do.
Okay so what's your favourite F1 livery? My top 3 are: 2002-2006 renualt, 2000-2002 jaguar and 1998-2001 jordan. Ohh and I have to say I do like the rebirthed lotus and the classic marlboro mclaren and I like the original torro rosso before it became more of a pallet swapped red bull
Would love to hear Chain Bear doing race highlights commentary/reviews.... there are so many 'jokers' doing F1 videos (etc) who love the sound of their own voices! Love how this is presented; with the information being the source of the entertainment, rather than someone's shite jokes!
Nice video. I'd like to remind that Ferrari has used the sponsor stickers and slapped them as is to the side pontoons since the 70's. Look at the 312B and 312T-series for example. Also McLaren's Marlboro livery isn't just stripes opposite to car's physical angles. From the top view the livery is the Marlboro logo.
I would note with the Williams that the nose of totally white on the launch event but they changed it and it’s got some black on it now to help it look different from the Sauber
Even funnier that the silver/chrome color of McLaren was a relic from 90s, when McLaren was Mercedes "works" team and has silver livery for Mercedes and West sponsorship. Mercedes on the other hand are known for their silver livery from the 30s Silver arrows that became silver as they ran without paint to save on weight.
the only thing missing on this year grid is a Green Car, like we had with the likes of Catherham and Jaguar for example. Sauber could easily substitute the white/red with a Green/Red since Alfa Romeo tends to use these collors in other sports.
Surprised that Red Bulls Matte livery wasn’t mentioned in this video, considering all the talk surrounding its introduction questioned whether it helped aerodynamic flow.
I was mildly surprised that they use paint and not a wrap, but upon further thought the many intricate aero details would be difficult to "wrap" with a vinyl.
re: paint weights, you might want to consider why most airlines' liveries are nearly all uniformly white. it weighs less. colours contain metallic pigments which add considerable weight to the planes. (it's not, as you find some people saying, for thermal reasons). it's also in the case of planes because re-branding a leased aircraft is easier and cheaper if everyone's base colour is white (not applicable to F1)
I loved the old Ferrari liveries with the Marlboro sponsor on it, specially the 2007-2009 ones with the barcode, but that didn't make me want to smoke, that's dumb. I never smoked in my life and I'll never do it, a car design will never influence me to do it.
Wasn’t the red on the lotus around 2013/14 because they had signed an agreement with Honeywell as a sponsor but they pulled out last minute after lotus had already submitted their designs to the fia and couldn’t change it
The chrome color of a mclaren being too heavy is kinda ironic if you think about its origin , when they removed the color due to weightissues and what was left was a chrome car
I have always wondered... RedBull and now also Ferrari, have matte paint.. Doesnt matte paint have a higher drag coefficient than a smooth clear shiny surface?
I have a completely different definition/etymology for "livery". It developed from the place where the lives (animals) are kept (as opposed to other general store merchandise) - the livery (a [livery] stable; barn). I imagined this developed along the same use as "jewelry" came from jewels, "cutlery" from knives (that cut) etc... I'd call what is being talked about here as the paint scheme.
