Happy New Year from me and everyone at RaceWorldTV!
Andre Harrison back at it with another edition
of the Top 5, and in this week’s episode,
I’m going to be discussing one of my favourite
elements of F1…
The liveries.
Some of Motorsport’s most iconic shots have
been captured by the very look of the cars
themselves, how they work their sponsors and
how so many great designs ended up on your
bedroom wall like I did as a child.
So without further ado, here’s my Top 5
favourite F1 Liveries!
At number 5, it’s the Red Bull Racing Star
Wars special from Monaco in 2005.
Haha, topical reference!
This was a very clever bit of co-promotion
between George Lucas and Red Bull, back when
they were the party animals of the F1 grid,
in anticipation for the final Star Wars prequel
movie, Revenge of the Sith.
Less said about that the better.
Anyway, I have to commend Red Bull, they did
a fair few of these kind of sponsor deals,
and when they did, they really went all in,
with George Lucas in Monaco, as well as well
as the fantastic scene of the pit crew dressed
in Stormtrooper-esque gear, and Darth Vader
holding 
the lollipop.
Brilliant.
Number 4 was kind of an inevitability.
Who hasn’t loved a Ferrari F1 livery at
some point?
I admit, I’m being a little biased here,
as the very first F1 poster I owned was of
Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari F2001, but
of all the one’s I’ve seen in my years
of watching, the 2006 248-livery is my personal
favourite, I liked the extra white at the
front to compliment that iconic Scarlet Red,
and the subtle black of the Marlboro logo’s…
Well, before Tobacco sponsorship got banned
in F1 and it covered in anime style speed
lines instead.
No thanks.
At Number 3 is the early Arrows liveries of
2000 and 2001.
Now, another personal story here, but my Dad
actually used to do welding work for the team,
so my house was often surrounded by free Arrows
merch, so naturally, I rooted for them in
their backmarker days.
It only helped that their Orange and Black
colour scheme, and use of the Orange mobile
company sponsor complimented the car so well.
One of my earliest memories of F1 was in 2001
and the infamous Monaco GP where Enrique Bernoldi
was holding up David Coulthard, and 8 year
old me cheering the Orange car on because
of Dad.
That little bond is what made me put Arrows
here at 3.
2 Is the Jaguar team.
There’s just something extra cool about
British Racing Green isn’t it?
And I just loved the green and white of the
Jaguar team through the mid 2000’s, my personal
favourite being the 2003 version with the
longer form HSBC logo, and green being the
slightly more predominant colour.
An honorable mention here also has to go to
the Lotus and Caterham teams of the 2010’s.
Didn’t like the yellow so much, but they
were pretty nice too.
And my favourite ever F1 liveries belong to
the more recent times of Jordan.
The majority yellow and black worked really
well with Benson and Hedges being their title
sponsor, and they always had brilliant, visually
striking liveries.
My personal favourite has to be the 2000 Jordan,
with the shark fin on the sides of the nose,
a fantastic design.
I need to find that in canvas form and hang
it in my bedroom already.
So, what’s your favourite F1 liveries and
iconic designs over the years?
Sound off in the comment section below, and
until next time, I’ve been Andre Harrison,
and thanks for watching!
