Two teams have revealed special livery designs for this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.
Ferrari is marking one year since HP became its title sponsor with some changes to its usual livery this weekend. Its engine cover, rear wing and wheels covers feature extra blue and white graphics.CEO Benedetto Vigna called the design “a bold new asymmetric livery.”
To complement the livery, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc will sport completely different race suits in white and blue.
Sauber says its revised look for this weekend’s race is “inspired by Miami’s vibrant art scene.” The team’s drivers will also have new overalls to match the look.
At least one other team, Mercedes, is expected to run a special livery at this weekend’s race, having teased a potential new look on social media.
Since the Miami Grand Prix joined the F1 calendar in 2022 it has become a popular choice of event for teams to produce one-off liveries. Last year Ferrari used a part-blue design after announcing HP as their new title sponsor. RB (now Racing Bulls) incorporated rainbow colouring into their usual livery. The year before that, Red Bull ran a special design created by a fan.
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Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
30th April 2025, 14:43
“Sauber is first…” the only time you’ll hear it.
I hope they paint the garage floor like that.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
30th April 2025, 15:03
Some affectatious runt has probably been paid more to “Design” that, than a Nurse working 50-hour shifts in A&E earns in a year.
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
30th April 2025, 15:52
straw man
kuvemar
30th April 2025, 16:33
Yeah, because graphic designers make SO MUCH money.
Median annual salary for graphic designers in Switzerland (Sauber’s HQ): 75k
Median annual salary for nurses in Switzerland: 92.5k
JoshAtTwo
30th April 2025, 17:23
Understand your point, but I’m not sure it’s about medians. The ceiling is different. I’m not sure about the Sauber particulars, but a popular graphic artist (people like Stefan Stagmeister or Paula Scher) can make way more than any nurse. It’s like a boxer. The average income for a boxer would be barely above minimum wage. But the 1% at the top are swimming in it. I’m pretty sure that’s how Nulla Pax is seeing it. And personally, I wouldn’t put it past an F1 team to commission a ‘name’, provided it falls outside of the salary cap!
Arthur Zakaryan (@arthurgd3)
30th April 2025, 17:45
That could be said and apply to many professions. The cream of the crop always rises to the top and those earners far exceed the median of that field but I get what you’re saying with regards to the ceiling of a designer vs. a nurse.
PeteB (@peteb)
1st May 2025, 11:42
If it’s not about medians, we shouldn’t be using the median figure for a nurse either. How about private nurses who look after billionaires?
SteveP
30th April 2025, 19:31
When most people think of a nurse, they think of an NHS nurse.
Handily, there’s no guesswork about the pay scales, as they are online:
here
Feel free to hazard a guess what percentage of the nursing population make it as far up as your quoted graphic artist salary.
An Sionnach
30th April 2025, 19:45
Who would make a better nurse… Doohan or Colapinto?
SteveP
30th April 2025, 22:44
Ah, straight to the questions that really need answers.
Is it related to the size of their, er, feet?
I could never get a decent mark for abstract art, one splodge looked just like another to me – which I think brings us back to the “art” in the photo
Mooa42
1st May 2025, 1:40
@SteveP I think the abstract art represents what you often see on a hospital floor that the nurses have to clean up!
Ben
30th April 2025, 15:23
Looks like Shrek has had a great time.
Octavia
30th April 2025, 15:47
It looks like someone just blew their nose all over the car…
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
30th April 2025, 15:53
Blows my mind what they’ve done with that. Its like a visual party
Jere (@jerejj)
30th April 2025, 16:08
The tweak may be marginal, but I quite like this green shape pattern.
Jere (@jerejj)
1st May 2025, 7:12
Regarding Ferrari, only the rear wing, PU cover, front wing, & wheel rims, how surprising.
Cdfemke
30th April 2025, 16:11
But what tech uogrades do they bring, who cares about liveries, its the tech that counts
Dex
30th April 2025, 18:53
There’s nothing special in rotating liveries like a child would do in some video game. Boring…
WheeledWarrior
30th April 2025, 19:48
That Ferrari looks awful.
Simon
30th April 2025, 20:58
Sauber overdid the flo-viz, that’s all
US_Peter (@us_peter)
30th April 2025, 21:46
Oh great, Ferrari have brought back their Papa Smurf livery.
Dex
30th April 2025, 23:21
What’s bold in this? Being the first livery to be designed by a blind person? This looks horrible, and they only cared about promoting those sponsors better. “Special livery”…
An Sionnach
1st May 2025, 8:06
They must have meant “barely asymmetric” rather than “bold asymmetric”?
Didn’t Jordan (or some team) try to run a different design on each car one time and they weren’t allowed to do it, so they put half of it on each car? Or, was it the other way around and they weren’t allowed to have an asymmetric livery? Something like that; can’t remember!
Webbo (@webbo82)
1st May 2025, 8:23
Yes, BAR with the Lucky Strike and 555 liveries
An Sionnach
1st May 2025, 15:17
Yes! Thank you. No wonder I couldn’t find it as Jordan!
bernasaurus (@bernasaurus)
1st May 2025, 15:55
As soon as I read ‘asymmetric’ BAR / Craig Pollock came to mind (they were initially meant to be two completely differently liveries on each car à la Indy / Cart).
But I guess what BAR tried to do was far more dramatic with their half and half ‘compromise’. On some level whatever you put on the rear wing, unless it’s a palindrome is going to be ‘asymmetric’ in a way.
Mog
30th April 2025, 23:21
Can someone explain the assymetrical meaning? Is it because it’s blue and red?
Looks symmetrical geometrically
S Arkazam
1st May 2025, 9:51
I guess it’s the two different racing numbers on a single car.
But I doubt they want to land another disqualification in the race ;)
MichaelN
1st May 2025, 10:03
The blue bits on the wings aren’t mirrored down the centre line. And that seems to be it.
Michael A.
30th April 2025, 23:58
What a mess!
Cost cap not low enough?
matt90
1st May 2025, 0:08
Who crashed the Ferrari into an early ’00s Williams?
SteveP
1st May 2025, 7:31
Schumacher usually ;)
(drum roll, cymbals, canned laughter)
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
1st May 2025, 7:58
LOL.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
1st May 2025, 10:38
Might make it a bit faster.
Gary Taylor
1st May 2025, 0:51
The ferrari look’s horrible as it did last year…i’m not one for changing liveries perhap’s i’m old school being in my 50’s…the ferrari from the schumacher era looked smart…i may be a bit bias as i am a ferrari fan but keep the ferrari in the colour it’s supposed to be and i bet enzo ferrari would be shouting out loud NO.
Rick Gomez (@rgomez13)
1st May 2025, 3:49
How can Ferrari make such beautiful road cars and fail so miserably at liveries? The ridiculous HP has morphed into something worse.
Seppo (@helava)
1st May 2025, 4:23
Having Ferrari describe this as “bold”, and then the next article up is a RIDICULOUSLY PINK RB makes their definition of “bold” seem pretty feeble.
daniel
1st May 2025, 6:25
saubers is better than its normal livery
racing bulls … ok, ok, ok
ferrari … nope, that is horrid
Chris Horton
1st May 2025, 8:37
The Ferrari looks horrible.
I look forward to the day this HP sponsorship ends.
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
1st May 2025, 8:49
The Ferrari looks awful. We hear a lot about Italian design and style, etc, sometimes justified. But why are Ferrari so awful at liveries? This is a complete fail. I understand the sponsor issue, etc but something contrasting would better like orange, yellow or pink or a dash of blue.
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
1st May 2025, 9:38
They did get it right initially in this era’s cars, but only because they aped the black front and rear wings from the early 90s Ferrari. Simplicity is hard to do, as they are amply demonstrating
Konstantinos
1st May 2025, 9:39
This is all personal taste but I do find the solid red ferrari car to be the best livery in the field. What the inclusion of all this white and and blue does to it is another matter…
I would imagine that the encroachment of more and more white and blue has more to do with how much HP are paying them rather than their skills as designers but maybe there is a better way to make this combination work?
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
1st May 2025, 10:44
100%. But not sure you need to say taste is personal, thats all it is. But yeh ‘we are getting into the vibrant art scene in Miami by plastering our cars with a dull laptops brand’….’ because they paid us a shedload of cash to sell our souls’
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
1st May 2025, 9:36
Enzo never really got over the garigistas putting the car before the horse, if he saw that abomination he would sell Ferrari to Tusk. HP sauce dribbled over it would’ve looked better. The ability to do anything on design software reaches its nadir.
Femke
1st May 2025, 10:16
Is there no real news? Liveries are not interesting, those arw just marketing….
The tech underneath is interesting. If they would have extremely assymetrical aero for example
BenjaminS (@benihana)
1st May 2025, 10:24
No to Ferrari. I mean bring back the 2022 black. Sauber, 🤮 is just not in.
Maciek (@maciek)
1st May 2025, 13:03
Nothing says Miami like all money and no taste
Colin
1st May 2025, 13:56
Not a single livery since the 90s has been bold.
David
1st May 2025, 14:00
Looks like when my daughter mixes up lego parts from different sets
Biggsy
1st May 2025, 14:28
I remember this Ferrari livery from some 20 years ago. I was doing a lot of liveries for fan-created season mods for GP4. This particular one happened when I accidentally mis-named some textures, and ended up with some 2004 Williams textures on a 1991 Ferrari.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
1st May 2025, 15:24
Bold isn’t the four-letter word that came to mind.
An Sionnach
1st May 2025, 15:25
I read in the newspaper today that Ferrari’s blue livery is unpopular with fans…
It does look pretty stupid and not very “Miami”. The RB is pink, but should be blotchy (or is that just me?).
Bernardo B Fortes
1st May 2025, 15:54
Enzo would never have allowed this abomination
SteveP
1st May 2025, 17:27
True.
In his day they painted the ideas they “borrowed” from other teams the same shade of red as the rest of the car.
Dane
1st May 2025, 17:32
A blue Ferrari is just wrong. You can have black, white or yellow in there, but blue is a step too far.
jodrell (@jodrell)
2nd May 2025, 12:37
It’s not a “a bold new asymmetric livery.”, it’s a terrible cut-n-shut bodge that they should be embarrassed about. Is they really wanted to stand out they should have just gone with the Ferrari design in all blue white for a one off. That would have been special and could have looked awesome…but this…good grief!
PT
2nd May 2025, 13:02
Was Enzo Ferrari against special liveries? I mean, every time Scuderia Ferrari comes up with a special livery they ruin it. This one looks like the car’s rear bodywork has been grafted from some other car.
Marcus (@marcusw)
2nd May 2025, 13:23
The Sauber Snot Rocket!
And Ferrari doing whatever it takes to avoid having to wear red baseball caps in America. ;-)