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From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
A racing livery is the specific paint scheme and sticker design used in motorsport, on vehicles, in order to attract sponsorship and to advertise sponsors, as well as to identify vehicles as belonging to a specific racing team. Aircraft livery is also the term describing the paint scheme of an aircraft. Most airlines have a standard paint ...
Axalta, the successor company to DuPont Performance Coatings (spun off in 2013), ran the same 1992-2000 livery with the current Axalta logo and text on the cars at the 2015 Irwin Tools Night Race for his final full-time season. The livery was again used in 2018 by Hendrick Motorsports with current No. 24 driver William Byron at Darlington ...
Formula One sponsorship liveries have been used since the 1968 season. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in 1968 the nationality of the team determined the colour of a car entered by the team, e.g. cars entered by Italian teams were rosso corsa red, cars entered by French teams were bleu de France blue, and cars entered by British teams (with several exceptions, such as cars entered ...
The Williams FW46 is a Formula One racing car designed and constructed by Williams to compete in the 2024 Formula One World Championship.The car was driven by Alexander Albon, Logan Sargeant and Franco Colapinto, the latter of whom replaced Sargeant for the final nine races of the season.
This was the first Mercedes car fully designed under British designer and engineer James Allison since his return as technical director in 2023. [2] The W15 was raced by returning drivers George Russell , and seven-time World Drivers' Champion Lewis Hamilton , the latter in his final season with the team.
[29] [27] The livery does not include any blue, which had been a prominent feature of every full-season McLaren livery since the MCL33 which competed in 2018. [ 27 ] McLaren again collaborated with sponsor Vuse to run a special livery featuring the work of a local artist, in this case a design by MILTZ for the Japanese Grand Prix . [ 30 ]
A Hesketh 308D in 1976's Penthouse Rizla Racing livery. A Hesketh 308D at Donington. The Hesketh 308D is a Formula One racing car built by the Hesketh Racing team in 1976. The car was based on the Hesketh 308 originally designed by Harvey Postlethwaite, and was powered by a 3-litre V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine.