Single-seaters chromatically similar to each other
During this first phase of the championship the FIA took into consideration some problems highlighted above all by viewers, who complained of a certain difficulty in distinguishing some single-seaters for their livery that resembles that of other cars. A difficulty aggravated in particular during night races or by shooting from certain angles, as well as technical factors such as the reduction of paintwork due to the need to make the single-seaters lighter. Furthermore, all this is added to the presence of carbon which is totally colorless and the same on all single-seaters.
The goal for 2025
For this year, with the exception of some GPs in which the teams have taken or will take to the track with a special livery (not least McLaren in Monaco to pay homage to Ayrton Senna), this confusion will continue until the end of the world championship, but the FIA and the FOM have already started working to find one solution in order to make the cars more distinguishable from each other from 2025.
Theme of the next F1 Commission
The confirmation came from the words of Nikolas TombazisDirector of FIA single-seaters, who in an interview with Autosport indicated how this issue will be discussed in the next F1 Commission in order to find a solution for next season: “As always in F1, everything is a little more complicated than it might seem – has explained – one problem is that the cars have a little too much bare carbon, due obviously to the weight of the paint, so the cars have a little too much black. There has also been a lot of work done by all the teams to change the type of paint, and nowadays much of it is extremely thin films to keep the weight as low as possible. Another problem is that some teams seem to use similar color schemesso they end up having cars that maybe visually look quite close to each other. We are still discussing it with the teams and it will be discussed in the next F1 Commission“.
Not just cars
The Greek engineer then indicated that the FIA intends to solve the problems by collaborating with the teams without imposing rigid rules: “We need to come to a process where the teams. one way or another, communicate with each other and say: ‘Well, if your car is blue here, mine won’t be blue there,’ or something like that – he continued – but how exactly this process will work remains to be seen. It is not a regulatory process. We don’t want to set regulations on liveries, but we want the cars to be distinguishable“. In this regard, Tombazis also expressed a similar proposal for the liveries of the pilots’ helmetsalso in this case often confused with those of others: “In the past, of course, pilots had more recognizable helmets because they had simpler designs – he concluded – and they often kept them that way throughout their careers. Now there’s a regulation that allows swapping helmet designs and they have all these fun nuances, plus you don’t see the helmet anyway because of the Halo. We need to find a way for people to know whether it’s Russell or Hamilton, but also to be able to distinguish the cars easily.”
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