Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the episode on F1 liveries?
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It's time to get into your favourite podcast of the entire year. Forget qualifying roundups. Forget race roundups. It's where we rate colours from 1 to 10 and we crown our P1 livery of 2026 or my one and your one. I feel like we might disagree throughout most of this if the car launches are anything to go by. We've seen all 11, remember, 11 teams now. So we will go in order of the reveals.
Tommy, how are you feeling about this one? Are you ready to... I reckon you've changed your opinion a bit.
I have actually, yeah, quite a lot. And interestingly as well, We're obviously doing this before testing, and we've had a few late comers with the launches, but we've seen a few on track as well, and they maybe don't hit as hard. Some hit better when they're on track. Yeah, so it's going to be an interesting look at what's changed since way back in January when the roadblock got launched.
Way back, all that month ago. Render versus reality is going to be a big conversation. Oh, yeah, definitely. During this podcast. Right, let's begin with Red Bull, shall we? And my grade out of 10 for the Red Bull is a 9 out of 10. Now, this one already we open up the render versus reality conversation because the render that I'm looking at right now in my little sheet is absolutely gorgeous.
And it's right up there with that 9 out of 10. However, we see it on track and I'm like, where's that blue, though? Where be the blue that you promised us with all those sparkly lights and the car launch and things like that? It doesn't quite hit as well when you see it out on track. However, you know, this is clearly what they intended. So that's what I'm going to grade them on.
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Chapter 2: How do Red Bull's livery designs compare to their renders?
It looks so, so good in person. Like you say, the GR is super aggressive. It's an aggressive paint scheme, I think. It's like choppy lines, but it kind of works with the car. So it looks kind of like quite angular, but they've kind of done the black and white really well.
And I think the way they've kind of implemented all the colors, I was ready to roast, almost like roast Haas and be like, well, you can't really do anything with white, black and red because everyone's kind of white, black and red. It's a bit of like a kind of everyone's got this color scheme.
I think we mentioned before we did the stream, like Haas have never really had a livery where you've gone, wow. They're always just kind of a non-offensive livery. They never do a really bad one, but they also never do a really good one. And here, they've just absolutely cooked. It's amazing. It's so well done. I do think the GR does a huge... It's like opposite to HP.
You stick a HP Lego on there, and it's a 6 out of 10. But the GR...
just looks so cool because they use the right colors for the car as well exactly it matches it matches and and the the kind of gr logo being like as you said it looks kind of aggressive there's kind of like pointy angular sharp things of the logo they've implemented in the livery to match the car like it's it's i couldn't do any better it's spot on no of course you couldn't make this way of a podcast you're not a
Yes, it was a phenomenal livery. The fans' average grade for the Haas was an 8.49 out of 10. Strong. So they still see some improvements, though. They really do. Right, let's now head to Audi. Audi? I've gone. Tommy's smiling. Tommy's smirking. This could be a low score, everybody. Now that we're not at the launch event, Tommy's going to say his real number.
8 out of 10. This I've never in my whole life changed my opinion more than seeing this on a racetrack. This has grown on me so, so much. It's the opposite to Red Bull in terms of like how much my opinion has changed on it. Wow.
I think so much of the launch, I think the underwhelming, I think I was so underwhelmed by the fact that it was the same livery I'd seen three months ago that I didn't really appreciate it. Because I remember thinking like when they announced that livery, I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. It's a bit different.
so then when they announced it and all it was was putting some stickers on it i was like oh you know like it's a bit under underwhelming and then i saw it on track and the silver's really dark and the lava red as if you've watched that video and the correct pantone colors i love how they've painted the inside of the air box and the inside of the side pods
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Chapter 3: What are the contrasting opinions on V-Carb's livery?
Well, not really switch up because I was positive about it, but I wasn't positive enough. It's a 9 out of 10 for that Cadillac. I've seen videos of it in person. And my God, it's so much nicer than people are giving it credit for. I don't...
think people have seen the chrome on it the chrome it's not chrome there is chrome there's not chrome on it there is they've put pictures of the on the track today there's no person with a camera going around the the show the show cars baited everyone there's no what they're posted pictures 10 look right
We need to have this discussion. Go on Formula One on Twitter. I saw this today because this was going to be my point. What happened to the chrome? They've posted pictures of it on track. There is not one piece of chrome. F1's Twitter. They've posted pictures of it on track. They've got rid of all the chrome. No. No, no, no. I saw that. The end plate was chrome. Yeah. That's gone.
The halo was chrome. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't look like it to me. Yeah, it's just black and white. Relax. And also the Super Bowl ad made it look like it was chrome and not white, but it's just white.
Yeah, because the rear wing was chrome. They've just changed it now. Okay, now we have entered the conversation of render versus reality. And even reality from a fan going round a car that it had chrome on. Cadillac. How could you do this to me? Oh no. What am I now going to do? Okay. So I have to, I'm looking at the pictures out on track. Still a good-looking livery.
I'm going to go with, now that they've got rid of the chrome, which I was really sold on, it's a 7 out of 10. We've come down to a much more relaxed grade now. I was about to sing Cadillac's praises after seeing these videos of the chrome and just the way in which it was integrated into the car. It was really good-looking.
The fact that we thought half of it was silver as well, when it is, in fact, white, is, again, the biggest miscellaneous ever and I don't know I actually kind of prefer the white I think it's a bit more of a stark contrast but Cadillac you've had about 7 different versions of the car so I'm giving you a 7 out of 10 I have gone 4 uh oh
oh i'm so unsure this is the hardest thing to no no it's it's not right oh if you change your mind because you were very savage about it you said it was boring it is boring um so i'm gonna have to give it a five i'm gonna give it a five out of ten um because i think The way I see this livery is I think they've done a really good job with a really boring colour scheme.
Like, I don't think you could do a kind of 1920s before colour TV was invented livery better because black and white, for me, doesn't stand out on track, particularly, you know, you mentioned this when we did the car launch. How's it going to look at a cloudy day at Silverstone? And you also got to think, you know, a Formula One track is grey. It's a lot of grey going on.
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Chapter 4: Why do hosts rate Haas' livery as a perfect 10 out of 10?
Aston Martin, 6.57. V-Carb, 6.6. Mercedes, 6.8. And then a big jump up to Red Bull with 8.46. And Haas in P1 with an 8.49.
They only beat Red Bull by 0.03 of a grade. I'll take that in the real thing. Um... I don't know what kind of race we need to figure out. Yeah, yeah, true. 0.03 of a point.
But yeah, Haas win. Indeed. And they also won mine with the only 10 that I gave and you gave, I believe, as well. Yeah, we should have done. Who is our P1? Who's our P1? Haas. Haas. There you go. Both Haas. Yours was Haas. Mine was Haas. And the fans were Haas.
Look at us, all in agreement, starting the new year strong. Can't wait for that to continue. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. It's been an absolute pleasure. We'll be back for our roundup of day one of actual Bahrain testing tomorrow. So come and join us there. We'll be live streaming as well for that final hour and a bit.
to see the cars out on track and inevitably change our opinion on the liveries once again.
Yeah, when you're giving Cadillac a 10 when they come out in a full chrome livery. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. They just went, actually, we've changed our mind. We saw Matt's downgrade and we're like, no.
Well, what they should do, right, is if they are really slow in testing and they realise it's going to be a terrible year for them, they may as well look good at the back of the car. Just do an art car or something. Just cover it in paint. Fantastic. All right. See you soon. Lots of love. Bye.
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