Ferrari have unveiled the special livery they will run this weekend in the Miami Grand Prix, incorporating shades of blue alongside the usual red.
Formula 1’s oldest team are celebrating 70 years of activity in North America with a revised one-off livery and overalls incorporating two shades of blue called Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino.They are also promoting the arrival of new title sponsor Hewlett-Packard, whose corporate colours are blue and white, and whose logos appear on the SF-24s for the first time.
The shades hold historical significance for the team. Ferrari ran in blue and white over the final two races of the 1964 season in the United States and Mexico, echoing those of the Ferrari-affiliated North American Racing Team. Team mechanics also wore blue overalls in the sixties, seventies and eighties, while some of the team’s grand prix racers such as Niki Lauda and John Surtees raced in blue overalls.
The team’s drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jnr will race in blue suits over the weekend. Both drivers have also revealed revised helmet designs for the event which both incorporate the blue shades of the team’s livery.
“We will be celebrating our heritage through a unique livery, rediscovering two colours that are part of our history,” said team principal Frederic Vasseur. “It will also be a very special race as we are glad to welcome the arrival of our new title partner HP.”
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Pictures: Ferrari’s Miami Grand Prix livery
Pictures: Special Ferrari liveries
Ferrari have occasionally appeared in colours other than their traditional red in the past. Olivier Gendebien drove a Ferrari in the national racing colours of Belgium, predominantly yellow, in 1958. In 1964, following a dispute between the team and the FIA, Ferrari’s cars were entered in blue and white by the National Auto Racing Team in the Mexican and United States rounds.
Since F1 relaxed its rules allowing teams to vary their liveries during the seasons, Ferrari has taken advantage of the opportunity on three occasions. They first did so at the Tuscan Grand Prix in 2020, using a heritage-style livery to mark their 1,000th appearance in a round of the world championship.
For their home race two years later they incorporated a splash of yellow to their design, and at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year they added more white to the livery.
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Jez
1st May 2024, 14:12
#Anticlimax
FanatikosF1 (@fanatikosf1)
1st May 2024, 14:16
My thoughts too!
I’m I the inly one thinking Williams’ BMW livery is where hp logos belong? Oh… memories!!!
MacLeod (@macleod)
2nd May 2024, 7:56
Indeed i had hoped they used the frontwint colours for the whole car… Just too much red it should be more blue. So the front wauw the rest very dissapointed!
Asd
1st May 2024, 14:19
That’s ok. But I wish they left the front tyre winglets alone.
Dex
1st May 2024, 14:31
If you really want to have “special” livery every season, and even more often than that, at least be creative, be brave, do something different. This looks more like an accident with the wrong stickers than a real thought out design, something that someone had actually worked on for more than three minutes.
And it’s all about promoting the sponsor, the rest is obviously just a fake story. “Special”, right… Lazy, uninspired and nothing but an empty PR. It could at least be more fun.
I luv chicken
1st May 2024, 18:24
So much of my time, wasted in anticipation, f a “special” livery. As Ralphie said in the movie A Christmas Story, after decoding a message from Orphan Annie: “ A Crummy Commercial?”.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
1st May 2024, 15:01
Another reason not to watch the Miami Grand Prix… looks like one of the cartridges didn’t print properly, that blue’s even more out of place than it was on the McLarens!
StephenH
1st May 2024, 15:05
Should have gone the whole hog. White and blue NART livery. Missed opportunity.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
1st May 2024, 15:31
Those colours just do not go well together :(
theRealMax (@millionus)
1st May 2024, 15:35
Those overalls look like they should be in a old Mario movie or something :/
notagrumpyfan
1st May 2024, 17:42
It looks like a mechanics overall, or a caddy at the Masters.
JF
1st May 2024, 16:09
I’m sure HP were given a pricing structure. You can have the whole car blue but that will cost you $xxxx for a one off special launch race, or you can have just a line and a wing blue and it will be $xxx
Imre (@f1mre)
1st May 2024, 16:22
A mess, just like most liveries of US series. So fits really well for a US GP.
Jockey Ewing
1st May 2024, 16:24
I like the front wing but not much more. I expected some more dominant dark blue on the car. Imo racing blue (or even green), and yellow or black or even ice whie is not that alien on a Ferrari, some of these colors were used in the past.
The placement of the Hp logos could be way more thoughtful.
Had they have not gone with the quite thoughtful and well executed usage of the red and light blue ambient lights, to have a nice color split on the driver’s face, I could even call this design effort “Smurfs”. The racing overall is definitely better than the car’s livery. I think the fairly high amount of light blue is what that ruins the livery for me.
Jockey Ewing
1st May 2024, 16:32
Or to put it a bit more precisely, I do not really like the grayish light blue, it is ok on the front wing, but becomes too much . Now I am not sure if it is the same color on the rims as well, the rims are seeminly less grayish, but maybe it is just an optical illusion.
Chris Horton
1st May 2024, 16:58
I don’t like it.
There’s too many sponsors on the car this year anyway, but adding a colour for a sponsor is a step too far.
Ferrari’s livery is iconic and ideally should be as plain as possible.
Tommy Scragend
1st May 2024, 16:41
Horrible.
I don’t know which part is the worst; it’s either the wheel covers or the overalls.
SpaFrancorchamps (@spafrancorchamps)
1st May 2024, 16:50
Am I the only one thinking the car looks gorgeous with this livery?
Billys (@bilarxos)
1st May 2024, 16:57
No you are not mate!
pastaman
1st May 2024, 17:10
Nah, it’s just the Internet. Complaints are louder than praise
Matteo (@m-bagattini)
2nd May 2024, 12:54
I kinda hate this one but I’m more than happy to see someone is liking it!
glinto
3rd May 2024, 2:36
Here is another data point of people who love it
JoshJ81
1st May 2024, 17:05
Ferrari made the suits but forgot to put the HP logos on, so they hired a Wish.com photoshop artist to put them on post photo shoot?
Tom Baker
1st May 2024, 17:06
After seeing those images I spent a while trying to work out what all the fuss was about but now I realise it’s for a very special anniversary.
Celebrating 48 years of Martini Brabham Alfa Romeo.
Marvellous.
Edvaldo
1st May 2024, 17:14
was expecting a true blue car so i could buy the miniature model later and they come with this. Instant pass.
So lazy.
Matteo (@m-bagattini)
2nd May 2024, 12:53
This livery is dull and forgettable but mate, believing that a Ferrari could race without a mostly red livery is crazy and a bit dumb.
Edvaldo
2nd May 2024, 13:39
They did it in the past. Do your research.
I have two of the models even.
Tristan
1st May 2024, 17:20
What a let down, expected a gulf-like livery with red/yellow instead of orange.
Could have been one for the ages. Instead, whatever this is.
MichaelN
1st May 2024, 17:20
Most of the blue seems to be on the rim covers. That’s a bit disappointing!
But, it’s not a bad look! A good way to debut a new title sponsor, if nothing else.
MarkWebber (@markwebber)
1st May 2024, 17:48
If this is what Ferrari is going to look like from now on because of HP then this is bad news. As someone already pointed out, it looks like those old NASCAR cars where the sponsors and livery were completely unrelated.
sam
1st May 2024, 17:54
Lets make a big deal over a stripe. Multiple articles. Silly.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
1st May 2024, 18:17
That’s just shockingly awful. It’s hard to think of a worse way to incorporate those colours to the original livery.
Should’ve gone all out with the blue instead of trying to do two things at once.
Laurent
1st May 2024, 18:25
Looks like it will shortly be out of cyan cartridge.
Jere (@jerejj)
1st May 2024, 18:41
Very underwhelming
thegamer23
1st May 2024, 20:36
awful combination of colours
RR
1st May 2024, 21:28
Lousy idea.
M2X
1st May 2024, 22:15
Given how minimal all these one of liveries have been, it seems like doing full on special liveries is considered too costly in this budget cap era.
MB (@muralibhats)
1st May 2024, 23:37
Wo much build up for a shaving blade and razor
MB (@muralibhats)
1st May 2024, 23:38
*So
ryanoceros (@ryanoceros)
2nd May 2024, 0:04
If they’re going to do this they need to be more comfortable with dropping red for a race or two in a season. This would have looked far better with yellow or white. Missed opportunity. I didn’t think HP had brand colors anyways. I always associated them with gray rather than blue.
david B
2nd May 2024, 1:38
Typical Ferrari. Always a let down with the special liveries.
Michael A.
2nd May 2024, 11:59
Question: Does all of this livey changing come within the cost cap?
A Ferrari should be all red – preferrably the shade of red that made the Lancia D50 so memorable.
AlanD
2nd May 2024, 13:42
Good question. I was going to say that surely the cost of livery comes out of promotional budgets which I think are outside the cost cap, but if that’s the case, I expect F1’s armies of lawyers would have found a loophole. Instead of painting the cars, they’d embed the colour in the carbon fibre, and then argue “No, it is not a new piece of bodywork, just a new piece of livery with a slightly different shade of blue”.
AlanD
2nd May 2024, 12:43
I feel F1 is losing sight of what a livery is for. The point of Ferraris being red, McLarens orange, Mercs silver, etc, is so that FANS can identify the cars at a distance, during the race. The point of special liveries is to pander to sponsors, with logos and designs that cannot possibly be seen at racing speeds, only in these specially posed overhead shots, and if that makes it harder for the fans to work out which car is which, well that’s tough, because fans don’t matter that much to F1 any more.
MCG (@malrg)
3rd May 2024, 2:53
Almost pointless, why bother?
Dale
3rd May 2024, 18:11
That’s a fail,.