Alright when was that again.....?

[GTR233]

Stripes remind me of Falken tyres livery

 

[GTR233]

Alonso will look epic in this blue Alpine on the podium this year

 

[Midnight⠀]

 

[Terry Rock]

Interesting!
Looks like it would be time consuming and costly to paint that engine cover.
Maybe they should have gone for a solid color and spent the money elsewhere.

 

[Terry Rock]

American team in the colors of the Russian flag)))

I hadn't thought about that.
It is ironic as you've already stated.
I do actually like the look in a weird and strange way.
Kind of a 'minimalist' approach.

 

[Madhat]

This is quite horrible livery not gonna lie..
Good idea, poor execution, replacing that light blue with white is already better imo
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Agreed the white looks better, but you then lose the Williams W. Maybe W in the orange would work.

 

[Zuffenhausen Weiss]

I think Claire Williams was behind all this 'hacking'

 

[RasmusP]

If you ignore the Russian flag issues this is actually a fantastic livery. Some old school vibes with the diagonal block colours and that number placement... Mint!!!

This and the Alpine I think are the standouts. I don't mind the Aaron Martin livery either.

I didn't think of Russia.. Clever livery I guess...
For me it looks very similar to a Williams Martini livery to be honest. And I like it!

Although Williams doesn't look like Williams anymore...

 

[Matthew Allington]

What a mess. I'm amazed that the corporate executives thought "yes this is an excellent livery"!

As some have already said, the front and the rear don't match at all - and neither match with the brand identity on their website/merch! It all looks simultaneously busy yet boring and empty.

The number font is a particularly sore point for me - it's 30 years out of date and clashes horribly with the modern livery and modern, sans serif fonts of Williams and their sponsors.

I can think of a fair few RaceDepartment members who could do better!

 

[Ruy Horta]

Something I don't get: if the doping investigation came about in 2014, and the ban for Russia to have national athletes compete under their country flag would last 2 years from then, why is it still being enforced?

...geopolitical games?

This is the ultimate irony, US F1 car in Russian livery and colors.
I’d say instead of a bad thing, it should be seen as something positive.

There was a short window when we were able to set aside differences and work together in space, curb the nuclear arms race and even work together for global stability. Now we are back to polarization, demonizing and primitive tribalism. Sad, but true.

So I like this Haas car...

...not that I care for billionaires like Mazepin, regardless where their passport was issued.

Sorry mods, I’ll go back to chores in the garden - much better for my mood.

 

[CC]

I think the funniest thing is what someone posted in our Discord earlier

 

[Martin_B]

The livery is an incoherent mess. Probably needs white at the back to balance it but last years looked decent so why change?

 

[Steve Bird]

Would have preferred this.

 

[Nick Hill]

Obviously it's a matter of taste, but I think it's a nice looking car. Not an all time classic, but far from ugly.

These cars are so ungainly in proportions that, if you go too much monocolor, they start to look very inelegant. I'm sure others think the exact opposite, but that's how it goes!

 

[Sigwolf]

I think it's funny that they bothered to come up with a completely new livery for a car that they aren't bothering to upgrade all year. Something about putting lipstick on a pig? Have to please the Russian overlords, I suppose.

 

[Kingkoenig]

The only positive thing about this new livery is that we won't see it much on race day. This is simply horrible. They have no major sponsor, and thus no real obligation to use a specific colour scheme, and they come up with this nonsense? In a way, it sums up the last couple of years of Williams very well...

 

[Kingkoenig]

All they would have to do would be to switch the order of the colours: put the red on top of the blue. It would look great and there would be no reference to the Russian flag.

Yesterday, on Twitter, Gunther Steiner wrote that it was "just a f**king livery!"

 

[XhendrickX]

Livery aside, are these guys for real? CGI work is very sloppy. Too much noise use a bloody denoiser

 

[Martin_B]

The Red Bull liveries don't get the credit they deserve. Since they changed to matte paint they've been great. This is the best yet now Aston Martin have left, didn't like the cross branding with Honda

 

[EZWriter]

Haven't considered them a truly American team at any time. Zero American drivers ever, Italian mechanicals, and now flying the Russian flag with pride. Not sure why they insist on keeping the "American" tag... not like there's the slightest shred of respect for Americans in F1, why not just be proud of who and what you are, which is clearly NOT American other than in the home address of the owner. To myself and the Americans I know, we don't have any national loyalty to this bunch whatsoever. Sincerely wish Haas had never raised my hopes, wish they'd just go away now. Let the Haas clown show of inevitable ineptitude fly the Russian flag with pride.