The Late Braking F1 Podcast - Ranking EVERY 2026 F1 Livery from BEST to WORST!

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

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We've got teammate wars coming up later in the month. We've got our season predictions, but our regular episode that we love to do, Exhibit has come out of hibernation, Sam. It's time for Pitmeyer form. Here he is. Legend of the podcast. It's won a year of performance.

It's good to have your back exhibit. It's very quiet on this show, which is odd. It just tends to orchestrate from the background. So, you know, he is here in presence. Enjoy it. Harry, you're a huge exhibit fan. Famously, actually, yeah. Honestly, I've got posters of him on my bedroom wall.

Ben, I like the fact that you said that the exciting episode to start now, like the rest of the show is bloody terrible. No, no, no. It's actually a downgrade because the other ones are really exciting. These are just exciting. Yeah, so no bother this one. Yeah, good. Yeah, so Pimp my F1, as we like to call it, or in other words,

we're going to be reviewing all 11 liveries today. Now they've all been announced. We'll go through H-1. This year we've decided to do it in a tier list format, just based on some of the deliveries. They've been drip-fed across the last sort of three weeks or so. We've given our review on eight of the deliveries so far. But we're now going to put a grade to them.

The maximum possible grade that delivery can get is an S-tier, and then it works down from A, B, C, D, and then E-tier is the work. We'll see if it's needed. The E-tier is the worst possible result. that you can have as livery this year. We're going to spend a little bit more time on the few that we haven't reviewed so far this year. That will be Cadillac, Astor Martin and McLaren.

And we'll have our own views, obviously, but we are going to have to come to a late-breaking consensus. So I don't know, maybe we'll need producer Kirsty to be a mediator if it gets a bit too argumentative at times. But we'll do our best to find a consensus. And we also ask the Discord for their opinion too. So we'll interject with what they think, what the fans think versus what we think, what the similarities and differences are there.

So if you're not a part of the Discord, make sure you do get involved. The link is in the description because we do this sort of thing from time to time where we like to get you involved. Shall we start, Sam, with Cadillac, one of the teams that we haven't had a chance to talk about yet, as it was revealed during the Super Bowl. They chose to use a Super Bowl advert to launch their livery, as well as having a show car in Times Square. the team will run what it calls a dual-color livery. So it's predominantly black on one side, predominantly white on the other.

I guess thoughts on that approach and also the livery as a whole. Well, the last time we saw a dual livery was, what, 2001? Well, we've got the famous Zip car where it was, oh, who was it, BAR that wanted to run to separate liveries? Yeah. Let's just say my opinions on this car is far nicer than the BAR Zip car, which is famously rugged-be-ug-me-as things ever creating Formula One. Not much of a compliment yet, but sure.

Now, I firstly, props to Kagalak. It's your first time doing this. Welcome to the show. Welcome to Pimp My F-1. Lovely to have you. I hope you're all that to be brought up first this year. Now, I had to go into mindsets about Cadillac because Cadillac actually bring colour

a lot of the time where they are appearing on a grid. You know, in their wet car, they've got this gorgeous yellow livery and it's a really lovely, almost old-school Rengo pure yellow car, absolutely love that. And even on their Formula E car, they've almost got like a day glow green yellow on the Sagaberg car. And I thought, oh, they've got the same AI sponsor. Now, you know, we'll save our thoughts on AI for a different conversation.

But I did think that that might mean there could be some similarities, much like what McLaren does with its Formula E, its Indy car. You know, they have similarities across their livery. So I'm thinking, here we go, we get some big colour. So when it was revealed and Fair Play, props to you, for doing it in Times Square and in a Super Bowl advert. I like that. You've gone big. And it was black and white.

I was a little bit disappointed at that point. I was a little bit gutted than it was purely monochrome. But I revised my issue with the lack of colour. And I saw it for a really smart, clean race car. I think it reminds me with the McLaren West car very much, you know, from the very early 2000s, late 90s, which is a classic, looks great. And I do think it does simple well.

It doesn't blame you away. I'm not as excited by it as a would have been if we had some yellow on the car, but I don't dislike it. I do think that the AI sponsor, I don't love it personally. And I do think that they're looking to gain more sponsors as they go because they're quite limited.

It is a bit light. And they're very driver-heavy in terms of what they're doing, but that's what Sergio Perez does for you, as well as score points, hopefully. But I don't absolutely hate it, but I'm not going to act like I'm smitten by this Kagalak memory. Yeah, I have to admit, the first thing I had noted down was

welcome back MP412 because you're right, the West McLaren vibe is very much here with this car. Harry, you're a fan of this one? It's all right, isn't it? I was hoping for something a bit more from Cadillac, given this as their first four-A into F1

and as you said, Sam, the launch in the Super Bowl ad and also were their physical stunt in Times Square. it was all sort of pointing towards something quite exciting. So it was slightly disappointing when we got what we got. But I have, yeah, slightly revised what was initially quite a negative reaction. A, because I don't think the advert did it justice, but the actual livery justice. Yeah, yeah.

And B, as long as I only look at one side of the car, I like it much more. Which side do you like more or less? I like the side that looks like McLaren, whereas the other side looks, I don't know, more like a testing livery. So the dark side looks like a more like a testing livery. But overall, it's okay. I've got a bone to pick with their CEO, though. I love it when Harry has a bone to pick.

Harry is that a roast chicken? And he's gone on the minute. No, you've had a roast chicken. I have. It was plugging, lovely. Knee deep in gravy, folks. Really good. Swimming in it.

Sorry, get your bone out. What are you doing? No. He said, this is from, I assume, the press release. Here we go. This livery represents far more than a paint scheme. It represents who we are and what we bring to F1. Every detail is intentional, bold, modern, and unmistakably American.

What are you sniffing, son? The first thing I thought when I saw it, yeah. Do you know it's serious when Harry wax out the full quote? That hasn't happened for a while. the most absolute jargony rubbish I've ever heard in my life. And also, I know we're not American, but what about it is unmistakably American. I agree.

I hate it. I hate this statement. I don't mind delivery. I hate the statement. So CEO, Dan, we're going to call you from now on. That's rubbish. Don't speak again. He's early contendant for the Stop Talking Award.

We walked past him when we were asking. He was in the back of the pit lane. What should have told him then? Shut it. Shut up. Shut up. Shaggy, shaggy. Shaggy. Yeah, I think that statement is hilarious. It's, America is bold and bright and full of color and wonderful things. This livery is none of those things.

Yeah, I also pulled out that quote because I think it's pretty hilarious. Like the European mind can't comprehend that amount of Americanness. That's what I thought as soon as I saw. Is it like we're colorblind? Is that it's so much that we've gone colorblind. Actually, to America, it's so bright. but to us it's just black and white. Yeah, I'm guessing so

because I couldn't, for the life of me, tell you what was American about that car. The way they launched it, sure. Could you get more American than Super Bowl lad plus Times Square? Probably not. But yeah, the livery itself, not sure what he's smoking, quote, Harry Ead.

I am kind of on the same wavelength as both of you, really. I like this livery. credit to them for trying something a bit different with the dual approach. Flirting with the rules a little bit because there is a regulation now that says that both sides of the car kind of have to not essentially be the same, but look very similar. And I guess they've been in conversation with the FIA to make sure that they don't overstep the mark here. And credit to them. I think they've done a really nice, clean job with it. I think just based on the, again, to bring up the limited number of sponsors they have on the car right now, it's almost a bit of a benefit at this point because they have the flexibility to do something like this.

I'm not sure many other teams could do this. But even other teams that have been in a position maybe to do this before have an opted to. So I give them credit for giving it a go and for the most part executing it well too. I like the way that the Cadillac logos are incorporated into the livery too. So you've got the word livery towards the front of the car. And then you've got the badge towards the rear of the car. I think in both instances they haven't just been stuck on. They've actually been worked in, which is nice.

Overall, just a really slick livery. The only negative is, it is based on expectation, sure, but the same as you. I was hoping for something yellow. There have been some really cool concept livery. You don't have to look too far on the likes of Instagram. to see some that have been created. And with Renault essentially vacating that yellow

as soon as they became Alpine, it was a real opportunity to add another splash of color to this grid. To see that neglected and not taken forward, a little bit crushing. But I will also say the two-tone stuff, I think it works better on the side of the car than it does on the front of the car possibly.

But mostly I am positive on this one. Which brings us to grading it. of course, which is what we're doing with all of these 11 liveries. Cadillac has the honour of being the first grade. Sam? Tall on this one. I'm torn between a high C, which I'm sure if I could hit back now, I would for you folks, and a low B. So wherever you guys are feeling, that's where I'm kind of sat on this spectrum at the moment. Harry? I put B, so we can go for that.

I was also in B, which means we don't need too much of a discussion. on this one, it can go as the first car into the B tier. But what did the Discord think on this one? You might be surprised. 30% of respondents, the most popular tier for the Discord, was S tier. Whoa. The second most number of votes in the S tier was to Cadillac. Overall, very positive, but it was quite well-rounded because over 20% had it either

in D or E as well. So most people had an opinion on this one way or the other, positive or negative, not a lot in the middle. Much like either side of the car is split. There you go. Poetic. Poetic. Yeah. Chigs, mate.

Can't talk for us in the podcast. Yeah, buy me a Coke and all the rest. We move on to Red Bull. It seems like months since we reviewed the Red Bull livery, Harry. Has your opinion changed on it at all since then? Yeah, it's actually got worse. which is a real shame. Saw on track

looks less good than it did in those photos. So I'm a bit sad about that. It is obviously, I think we, as we said at the time, we were just happy it was different and I think that's worn off now.

It's fine. It's pretty serviceable. It's a red bull. You know, you can't mistake it for anything else. But it's just okay for me. It hasn't. Whereas I think,

yeah, initially, they're like patterns and the gloss either they don't have them in real life or you just can't see them on like on the photos when it's on track but just don't show up as much which was quite a cool aspect of the at least of the launch one

so yeah it's got worse as time's gone on so sorry it rumble yeah I think it's going to be one of those this year that looks really good at some tracks and then at others it won't pop all that much under the light I feel like Bahrain might look better when they go testing Yeah, I think you might be right.

So we'll see how that goes. I feel like Red Bull is just in the opposite situation of Cadillac, in that Cadillac, there was such high expectation with the possibility of using the yellow, and they haven't quite done that, and therefore there's a little bit of disappointment around it. Whereas Red Bull is the complete opposite, where we had zero expectation based on the last 10 years. They've produced something ever so slightly different, and we're all like, goodness me, what a car. in reality, my opinion on both of them is very similar.

Any difference in your opinion, Sam? Look, I'm the last person to get wrapped up in all the livery hype. Okay, you won't see me have a big overreaction when something comes out around here. But when we saw that almost digital style camo on the Red Ball, I thought it was pretty darn cool. I mean, I very much like Harry Yead had, saw the photos through the layers of trees. Excuse me, I'm about to lose my voice. And... It's a gravy came out of it.

I'm actually just engraving. Not a good visual. I saw the photos of it going around quite a damp, wet, grey Barcelona, and it didn't fill me with confidence. I am hoping that we get to these night races, or even some really lovely sunshine. It might pop a lot more, but it has brought down my overall opinion.

So much like what you mentioned, Ben, if I'm going to go for the first grading, I was also going to stick it around that B grade. I had this in a B grade too, Harry. Also a B. There we go. We're really putting the B and late breaking tonight, aren't we? Two cars, both in Bberraking.

So we've got two in B tier, but can we put in one ahead of the other? For me, Red Bull wasn't A. I still think it will have impacts under the lights. So I think it's going to sit just above Cadillac for me. I can have it at the top of B currently. I'm right with that. I'm right with that. Yeah. You can go in front.

There you go. One of Red Bull. It will be in front on the track anyway. Yeah, that won't be. I was going to say that won't be the first time Red Bull. overtakes Cadillac this year, but if Red Bulls needing to overtake Cadillac, they're probably not doing as well as we expect. So we've got this as a B tier. The Discord had this as an A tier. Forty-three percent of respondents had it in the A category, the highest in that category by far, and very consistent as well.

So unlike Cadillac that had a fair amount of supporters and detractors, like this was very consistent. Not many people didn't like this livery. Everyone kind of had this in A, B, or a third. few in sea, but very consistent. So modern classic. They are right to not alter it too much, but it was nice to see something a little bit different. One more livery before we go to our first break. Ferrari.

What are we doing with Ferrari, Harry? What are we doing with Ferrari? I, when I've seen it on track, I've been less disappointed. It's looked better, especially i think some of their and maybe this is down to the to the great photography work of the ferrari uh content team but especially around um the furiano the test track there when they did a shakedown i i i didn't hate it as much um but i think it's just the disappointment of what

could have been with that car um did you see the they put a video out the other day of it of them applying like the the logos to the logo stickers to the car and there's a the there's a there's a shot of it where the car's just like playing red with black wings and I was like oh oh yeah yes please and I was like no no no the HP they put the HP logo on it's ruined um so yeah I it's grown on me a little bit but I'm still still disappointed by it disappointed begins with a D that's that's where I'm going in terms of a grade Sam what do you think yeah I'm up still right down this list I've seen the videos. Look, Ferrari, you've got so much aura. You've got so much hype around you all the time. I get exciting every time I see a Ferrari. It's a great thing. But this one is, yeah,

quote that, clip that quote, folks. This one is just not doing it for me. I spoke about it already, but the black wings don't work with the white central beer, the carbon fiber doesn't work. The HP logo is messy. One compliment I had for Kanga, like, which I didn't raise, because they don't have any silly coloured sponsors. And Ferrari do still. And I just don't enjoy this at all. So it's right down there for D. Spoilers, it might be one, if not close to the worst livery of the year for me. Sorry, Ferrari. What grade do you have on this one, Harry? Sorry, yeah, I realize I didn't say that, D for me as well. Okay. Well, there you go, Ferrari. No debating as to where you are in the D tier, because you're the only one that bad so far. Congratulations.

Well, that's three of the 11 liveries done and dusted. We're going to take a quick break. No, we're not. I forgot to say the Discord also had this as a degrade. So we're all in agreement here. Didn't have the most e-grades though. Someone beat them on that that we'll get to later in the show. But yeah, barely anyone had this in the sort of S-A tier. So yeah, disappointment all round for Ferrari. Hard luck. We'll be back with part two of pimped my F-1 right after this. This winter, we're cheering for our home nations, but your story might stretch far beyond. one flag. With Ancestry DNA, you can discover all the places from your family's past. Now, up to $65 off for a limited time. Explore the cultures that shaped you across more than 3,600 regions

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Works really well. And's well. Let's tackle another new livery that we haven't spoken about on the podcast yet, that being McLaren, released its livery on Monday with the team, of course, searching for a third straight constructors title. Livery itself matches its papaya approach, not a huge difference from what we've seen in the last couple of years. Harry, any initial thoughts on this one?

It's exactly the same as it was last year. It's not anywhere. They've changed nothing, apart from the size of the car is a bit smaller. Yeah, I... I'm okay with this. I still would prefer that McLaren... I know why they're doing it because of the... the weight saving involved here,

but I wish McLaren would commit more to the papaya because we had it initially, and I know they had no sponsors, but it's like 2018 when it was all papaya. And then they sort of moved into a little bit of blue and other colors in there. And obviously now we've got papaya and black, which again isn't just because that's the delivery,

they're just doing it for weight saving. I wish they'd commit properly and have more papaya on the car basically. So I've gone for, I've gone for a C. It's inoffensive to me. I still like the papaya. I still like the McLaren livery.

I just a bit of shame. They've just not really done anything different. But, you know, it worked for them last year, I guess. So maybe that's the logic here. Hey, we're only going to see this livery like three times on track anyway with the amount of special deliveries, though, dude. Also a valid point. This is a testing livery effectively. I'm surprised, Sam, because I wasn't expecting any papaya on this car because they released the livery.

and it had no papyr on it. I can't believe the comments. Everyone thought it was going to be black throughout the whole year. I haven't read the comment. They must be shocked. Wait, it's orange. I thought it was going to be black. Well, folks, orange is the new black.

So there you go. Yeah, it's very similar to last year. I do enjoy the singular black stripe that is kind of diagonal across the main body. If you're going to do it, I do think they've kept it in a nice compact way. I do think the front wing, the nose tip being black,

works with master card on it. It's a complement. sponsor the colours work. But I am in the same thing as Harry. That orange is a lovely shade. It's a really nice colour and it could hark back to some real classic liveries that have gone through orange such as arrows, for example,

which is such a great livery back in the early 2000s. Something that really, really irks me, and this is a theme that I think has come through all these lilies this year. Again, is sponsors not marrying up well with the main livery of the car? And they've got this all-wing green

on the top of the airbox and the wing mirrors, which is an awful shade of green. It's like kind of like a bogey green. It's not very nice. And then on the side of the panel, they've also got DP World, which is just like a weird midnight blue. And these colours are too close to black,

but I think that actually they just look like they've got it wrong on the car. So that's not to get down for me. Want more orange undermat. It's inoffensive. It's fine. So I also join Harry with a C. If you're a master card

And that's where your sponsor placement has You've been given I'll be fuming It's terrible You can barely see it There's also so much space above it Why have they not moved that up Why is it got to be on the side pod

It's a compliment to be alongside the OKX logo They're with the heavy hits It's now Mastercard, you know Yeah, Matt Velo and OKX Come on You can't buy OKX in Velo without master card. Sure.

Other payment methods are available. We'll get to Visa in a bit. Yeah, there is a much difference on this one compared to last year, so it's hard to have too much of a difference in opinion versus last year, but I do think it's a marginal improvement. I think the orange and black sort of

stripes do kind of line up a little bit better on the side of the car. I agree with that point. I prefer the OKX logo being a bit smaller because I don't really care for it much. And I prefer the orange around the cockpit. And it's not much of an improvement, but those ghastly tires that they do in association with Google, at least it's more consistent this year than last year. It's still not a positive.

It's just less of a negative versus what we had 12 months ago. As mentioned, we're only going to see this like three times, so it doesn't really matter anyway. I did also, one thing I like to do with these liveries is go back to like the last five or six liveries and just look at them all sort of side by side. And when you do go back to the early papaya era, especially when we have, you know, the sort of very light blue that we had with the Velo sponsorship, it got a lot of negative comments about it looking too much like a highlighter, which honestly was kind of valid. But also the way in which the car is lined up is so much cleaner and neater than what we have on this current McLaren. So I feel like.

it may, maybe you've got a step back in the last couple of years. But inoffensive is a good word for this, Harry. I'm not particularly high or low on this one. My final critique on this one is they released their Indy car line-up deliveries around the same time. And the number seven car for Indy is a really gorgeous all-orange car. And it's just one color, done well, super clean. And that's what I want the Formula One car to be. So now I have a direct comparison from one race. car to another and I'm annoyed that I don't get the good one. I get the one that looks a bit me. So that brought the grade down and it going to be for me as well. It seems like we have a very good consensus here because Harry's gone with a C, Sam's gone with a C, I'm also going with a C,

but then the Discord has also gone with a C. Not many loved it, not many hated it, 35.9% in that C tier. But 30.4% said B. So like two thirds of people. were in one of those two categories. But we do have an agreement here. So we can pop it in C. First one in C so far. Who have we got up next? Well, it's time for Alpine.

The car has, I understand, made it back to shore after being released on a cruise ship. Sam, what do you? I mean, after not seeing on a cruise ship, do you have a different opinion? I think their livery is all at sea, that's for sure. I think they're a little lost with what they're meant to be doing with this, and I do think it's got a progressively worse year and year.

As I mentioned in the previous show, my biggest bug bear is that, again, they'd managed to cut the BWT logo in half with carbon fibre. You all know my campaign stance against carbon fibre. More paint, less carbon and less blue, and helping our adamant that blue is their colour. Well, actually, I think they should just go all pink. I think a pink F1 car works well.

We used to have it, of course, with Racing Point. I think if they just change the shade of pink a little bit, it could be really cool, really impactful. I just think they're hanging on to their own branding, which doesn't really resonate particularly well. So I think this is, unfortunately, the worst livery, joint worst livery for me. So I have got this in E.

This one has wow me up more and more, the more I think about it. Because fundamentally I like this livery. It's not that far different from last year, and I liked it last year. It's a good livery. But that carbon fibre cutting into the BWT, I think, is the single worst thing done on a livery this year. It looks horrible. Williams, to be fair, have given them a run for their money with those wheels.

But it looks horrendous. I don't know why they've done that. Just cut it off slightly beforehand at least. But yeah, that carbon fiber on this car, it just gets me angry thinking about it again and again. I wasn't quite as negative as you, Sam. I've gone with a D grade, Harry. It summarizes Alpine as a Formula One thing, doesn't it? It's like a great idea, but the execution is poor.

And they've done it again. Well done, Alpine. Because, yeah, like last year where we loved this livery, it's the same livery, yet they've managed to mess. it up like how alpine is that they've like they've copy and pasted it but done it wrong how is that impossible um so i i've joined ben on a d uh i have i have just looked at their instagram just to remind myself of how horrific that bwt cutoff is and in their shakedown pictures it isn't happening it's perfectly intact there's no carbon fiber on the side pod i'm going to send this to you all so you can see what I'm on about.

Because now I'm confused. That's even worse. That's even worse because they can't even launch it properly. No, exactly. Maybe they heard us. Right. Click on that link. I'm just saying you and then scroll to the last photo and zooming on the side of the car.

Please, I need your opinions. That is different, right? That's a different livery on the side of the car. It's not wrong. He's not wrong. Right? Is it just last year's livery? Is that what they've done?

Have they put on last year? But they've launched their livery. Yeah, no, you are. Because you've got the difference in the white Alpine logo on the pink and the black E&I logo on the pink, which wasn't the case last year. Why have they, they've reverted? Unless the whole time it was actually just the fold of the side pod

that made it look like that, and they've duped us. Honestly, for all of this, I want to drop them to a U-grade. Yeah. I stand by my degrade. I will stick with a D grade as well. No, I've just looked. If you go back to their 23rd of January post in partnership with Formula One

and then scroll to the side pod picture, the B is folding into carbon fibre. They have changed it. And for that, I'm sticking with a G, but if I'm outvoting, I'm outvoted. Well, I think based on two being in the D tier and one in the E tier, we can go with the bottom of the D tier here. So well done, Ferrari.

You've beaten someone. Alpine. Alpine. If that isn't their 2026 season, I will be surprised. So we had it as a D tier. The Discord had this as a C tier, 34.1% of people going for C, but far more people had it in D tier than A or B.

So it was kind of floating between a C and a D. Let's focus on HASS next. Again, feels like we review this livery like two years ago. No, but apparently we didn't, and it was in with the rest of them. Sam, we haven't had anything higher than a B tier so far. Can we get any higher here? I am famously harsh against Haas. Very critical.

Don't like what they do at all. Don't enjoy their design language. Think it's boring. They claim to be the American team or were, and they never resonated with that point of view. Toyota step into the game. And it, honestly, it's a whole new game. How long we set of players?

How old we set of rules? I don't know what's going on, but I'm in love. It's gorgeous. It does clean lines, bold colours. It is sexy. If a car can be sexy, if it's at the back of the grid, I'm just going to be watching the back of the grid. That's fine by me.

This is an S here, my friends. This is superb, sublime, sensational is this hars car. Bring in how all the S's love that. Harry, you said that whilst you liked this livery, you perhaps didn't quite like it as much as last year's has livery. Are you standing on business without opinion? I stand with my former self on that one. I still think it is a superb livery.

And it's my favourite on the grid, I think. But I've gone for an A. And only because, and maybe I would change my mind to when we see it in different tracks. but on track from the side side view love it other other views I'm just a little bit less blown away by it and again maybe that will change front front dead front on I'm a little bit a little bit disappointed by it but overall still love it it's a great great livery and it's the best on the grid well sam you gave it an S for for Samuel harry you and a for Ashley and I might as well

complete your name, Sam, because I've gone with an S as well. Can't wait to be cloned now. Someone goes by full government. That's actually the only thing people need now is your full name. I'm sorry, there's going to be millions of me running around. That is terrifying. Your DNA or anything, just... No.

That's silly. You get my voice off the internet. That works. I've gone with an S because I just think it's a really nice little. looking car and I like it a lot. Simple as. Yeah, I love last year's one as well as you know, but I think this one has topped it.

I just think with the, this is more of a comment about the whole grid actually. When you commit to a black and white livery, like properly commit to it because it can be done really well. If you're like McLaren and you've got papaya and black or you've got Ferrari who are red but then also have a loss of white and black, and I think it works quite as well. But when Hasse actually commit to this and say,

sure, we'll have some red on there, but this car is going to be predominantly white, I think it works. I think it's a beautiful livery. I said when we reviewed this, one of the best in the last 10 years or so, I have not changed my opinion. Well, a bit of distance then between Hasse and the rest of the grid so far,

but we are only halfway through these liveries. Just to recap as to what we've got at the moment, Hass at an S tier, we've got Red Bull and then Cadillac in the B. tier, McLaren on their own in the C tier, and then Ferrari and Alpine in the D tier. For the record, Hask, that was an S grade from the Discord, 46.8% of people had it as an S tier. 93.5% of people who voted on this had it at least a B.

So overwhelmingly the favorite livery of the Discord 2. We're going to do one more before we head to our next break, and that is Audi. Sam, what have you got for a grade here? I'm so disappointed by Audi. I keep wanting us more of that lovely colour. I do think it's such a lovely standout colour. When their demo livery was so impactful, so interesting and cool, I thought we'd get a bit more of that.

And we just didn't. We mentioned this in the show. It's like the cut two cars and half and put them together. They're a bit lost in their design language. I think there's much room for improvement. I've got this in the lowest in my mind of C tier. The more I look at this car, the more I think it looks like Neapolitan ice cream.

Oh. The famous silver, black and red ice cream. Yeah, less about the actual colours themselves and more about the divide. Right. Yeah. I had this one in deed here. I can deal with that.

I think of the new teams, and we're calling that Cadillac and Audi, I guess. It's the worst of the two for me, quite comfortably. It just, again, I said this at the time. It doesn't make me feel. feel and I think. And livery should make you feel something. So I've got it as, I think I've got it ahead of Ferrari and Alpine in the D-T, but I do have it there. Harry? I've gone for a C. It's grown on me a little bit since launch, having seen it on track, but I've realized that it's a side-on view

that I like. And that's probably just because of the day globe, which they should have done more of to Sam's point. So I like it more since I've seen it on track, like I say, but it's still disappointing so I'm going to see it behind McLaren for me. Well, there we go since we've got two in the C tier and one in the D tier, that makes sense to go in the C tier just behind McLaren. So it puts itself in fifth of the seven that we've reviewed so far. Still got four more to look at though and we'll do so right after this short break. Welcome back everyone to Pimp My F1, part three, four teams to review, one that we haven't discussed yet at all on the podcast released yesterday as we're recording this Monday as you're listening

to this the Aston Martin car seamlessly revealed their 2026 car on Monday in Saudi Arabia. No technical issues whatsoever. Let's hope their car goes better than their sound does. Thoughts, I guess, Sam, should we just start with the event quickly? What was that? I like a laugh as much as the next person. And thank you to Austin Martin for bringing me a laugh because it was a mess.

What was going on? Cunning out, no sound, holding screen for ages. Seem pretty pre-recording, which was pretty lucky because I imagine that Lawrence Stroll might have actually exploded had that been a live event that had gone entirely wrong. So yeah, not ideal, I think as the podcast would say. Of the three times that Fernando Alonzo said, thank you for everyone for being here.

What was your favourite? I think it was the second time. Weirdly, I was going to go number two as well. yeah, there's a lot more gravitas to it, really delivered with punch. Anyway, eventually delivery was revealed. The colour scheme-wise, pretty similar, but notably going to a mat finish, which seems to be the opposite of what other teams have tended to do so far this year.

We've had a number of teams go from Matt to gloss. Aster Martin going the other way with this. Harry, what did you make of the livery? Delivery is delivery, right? It's the same as it has been. for most years. I like it more than last year. I think it's last year's

but upgraded, but then I didn't like last years versus what they've done previously. So it's an upgrade but also still downgrade in a weird sense. The mat looks pretty slick under studio lights. I think on track, it may not look as cool as that.

But for now, it looks good to me. So I've put it in at I put it in as a CET. it wasn't. It's like the McLaren. It's inoffensive. It's kind of, it's not broken, so they haven't fixed it sort of thing.

I mean, this is more of a question about the entire grid rather than just Aston Martin, but we've seen McLaren and Aston Martin, these teams with very similar liveries, choose not to shake things up for this new era of F1. Is it a surprise that at least a couple more teams haven't tried something of a bit different? I think so.

I don't know whether they've been putting so much investment into the actual cars as if that's been an afterthought and maybe next year we'll get a big surge of livery changes

I don't know obviously Red Bull decided to and that's that's kind of it isn't it really the rest are relatively the same

so yeah maybe we expected something a little bit different but it these sorts of things come in waves so I think maybe give it a year or so

we'll get a big shift Sam any advance on a C grade for this livery I'm calling this one the brightling baiting switch actually because it fooled the entire internet thinking it was going to be bright yellow and it should have been bright yellow

it would have been far more interesting than this to see these weird yellow gills it appears to have on the back of the side pods in its render. A lot of things I don't like, not going to lie, don't enjoy the contrasting blue on the Aramco on the rear wing don't like the fact that the front wing is black and doesn't match the rear wing, that irritates me.

The Honda logo is just kind of propped in the middle of its own It's so far away from anything else in the middle of that, kind of the nose there. I don't enjoy the black side pod where it's got the Aramco logo stuck underneath. Why not try to make that the same blue that's on the rear wing, I guess for carbon fiber reasons, and we all know that I hate carbon fiber. So I really don't like this at all. I'm really bored of this colour. I don't think the map that's good.

Really good spointing. I think Ashton Martin has got such a historic heritage brand that they could deliver on. And they're just missing the mark for me. I don't think they've been good for quite a while now. So unfortunately, I've given this one a D lower than Ferrari higher than Alpine is where I had this for me. I'm not a fan at all. So positively with this livery, and I think it has the same asterisk that Harry just mentioned.

We haven't really seen this one on track yet. I do like the mat finish. Like most other cars, I've enjoyed them going from Matt to gloss. Weirdly on this one, I actually prefer them going back to Matt. So I think that looks pretty good. I think the black and the green contrast is better than it was last year. I'm glad that that Madden White has gone because that looked really bad last year. So I'm glad that one's gone.

And I think sort of the front wing and the rear wing end plate, the front wing end plates and the rear wing look pretty good. So there's, I forget the name of the whiskey sponsor that's on the front end plate. That's the one. It looks really classy, actually, compared to how they did it last year. There's actually just a bit more space, I think, which has helped them. But I like how that looks as well. Negatively, yeah, I'm not really sold on the yellow.

I don't really like how it looks overhead. But then if you look at it from the side of the car, you can barely actually see it. You kind of have to be like almost birds eye view to see the yellow. So you either can't see it or it looks bad in my view. Neither is great. And the blue Ramco rear wing, I'm not a fan of. I was a fan of what they did with it last year either, but this one might be even worse.

But overall, I am a fan of this livery. I thought it was better than the last year, maybe better than the last couple of years, actually. I think this is one of the better ones since they came back into the sport. And I have it at a B grade. I guess we go in the middle with a C for what Harry put, right? Makes sense, but we're in the seat here.

So we've got McLaren leading the way, and then Audi next. So where does, where do we want this one? to belong. I let Harry pick as he's the one that put it in C, because otherwise I gave it right at the bottom and being, I suppose you gave it right at the top. Yeah. Well, let's put it in the middle then.

All righty. Diplomacy, well ordered here at Lake Broken. Piggy in the middle, but it's an Aston Martin in between a McLaren and an Audi. Just how God intended. The original version of that game. The Discord had this one at a B grade, 38.9% putting it in B. nearly everyone was in A, B or C. So like 86% of respondents were within one of those three categories.

So relatively positive. Mercedes are up next. He said at the time it was almost a couple of really good liveries merged into one all right livery. That's how I viewed it at the time, Sam. Are you still on that train of thought? The worst thing that happened to me with the Mercedes livery is I saw a design just completely inverted. So where it's black, it was becoming silver,

and where it was silver, it became black. And it looks so much better with like a full metallic chrome underbody with the black accents, rather than the black underbody with the chrome accents. It just let it all pop a lot more. And it dropped it down. Initially, I had it kind of a really low A, high B. I think for me, I'm going to have it right at the bottom of B

behind Kagalak for now. It's almost there, as we say in the main reviewer, we looked at this livery. it's if they just went with one direction not the band then it will be really really good but they haven't they've just they split their train of thought a little too much i've seen a few people say harry it's time for this team to go back to full silver like early 2010s mercedes you on that train of thought i i would like them to commit either way i don't mind whether they go silver i don't mind whether they go black,

but I don't like this. I haven't liked the, the, is that no, 24, 25, yeah, I had the past couple years where it's been silver and black, and now this I'd like even less. Yeah, I just, I want them to commit. You're either the silver hours or you're not.

So, yeah, a bit disappointed by this one. I've got it at the very bottom of C. Okay. I might be the average here then, because I've also got it in C, but I'm at the top of the C grade here. I don't hate the... Are we calling them gills?

Like the silver... The Adidas Strikes. Right. I don't hate them as much as I did the first time I saw it. I'm still not a fan, but they've warmed me down a little bit. I think this one looks better on track, which is odd, when the preview clips I've seen. Yeah. Like Harry said, though, just commit to black or silver.

I don't care which one. When they've gone to a proper black livery before, was it 2020, the first one, God, that looked good. But as soon as they started to reincorporate the silver, but without wanting to take the black livery away, that's where it's become increasingly murky. I'm still happy that there's no red in Eos. Perky?

Yeah. Mercedes. Oh, yeah. I don't even think about that. A double entendre on the podcast. I should have played that off like I meant it. Yeah, the red in Eonios. not being there anymore is just a really good thing.

But this is one where I've tried to like it and I just can't quite get there. So I did have it at the top of C. That's fine. Okay, I can live with that. Should we go with that as a bit of an average? It's not let you do it, mate. There we go.

You've been bucked up by a Tearmaker. Yeah. Had your pants down. Honestly, Tiermaker. I'm going elsewhere next time we do one of these. You've not impressed me with that two seconds. You've just lost some. biscuits there, Tearmaker.

What are you going to do about what? What are you going to do? Oh. If you want to sponsor the podcast, let me know. And I'll retract those comments. How much money do you actually have, Tiermaker? Let us go. Two more to go.

Racing Bulls. Now, of course, this one was released alongside the Red Bull a few weeks back. Sam, do you prefer this one to the Red Bull? Or is it lagging behind its big brother? When I first saw this, I thought, oh, good. racing balls have gone down, a similar design language as to what we've seen over the last couple of years. Bold, this kind of crisp white with the light blue.

And then I saw more of it, especially when I saw it out on track. And my opinion of it just fell through the floor. I don't like the big kind of jagged carbon fiber panel at the back. It feels really packed in. I thought they had more space to the carbon. They don't. It all feels a bit too big. It hasn't been refined.

So I think it's a little bit uglier than I thought it was. So, no, I think it falls short of it. this big bro taking over the show. And I actually have dropped this right to the bottom of C. Okay. Apologies, by the way, on Mercedes. Discord had that as a B grade, 42.4%. Putting it in B.

Okay, so bottom of C for racing balls for Sam. Harry, what about you? I've gone the other way. I really like this livery. And it's grown on me more since I've seen it on track. I think when it first came out, I was a fan. But having seen it on track, I don't know. It may just be the white.

wheels i'm not really sure why though um but i really do like it so i had this at the bottom of a top of b um well i'll see what you've had been before we decide where it goes but yeah i i really i really like this and it beats the red bull for me snap same result same reasoning um i was kind of when they were both launched pretty similar opinion on both of them and i i still like the red bull but yeah there's a To be honest, I think maybe me and Harry are in the minority here, because I've seen far more people say your point of view, Sam, which is... Well, I thought I was the minority. I was expecting you both to bloody love this one.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of people say that as soon as it was on track, that their opinion actually went down on this, but I'm the other way that I think it looks better. I'm still not 100% convinced. I prefer it to last year's one. I think it's fairly similar. But overall, yeah, I'm still a fan. I did at the bottom of A as well.

So whatever the average of 2 A minuses and a C minuses. B plus? Yeah. I'll put the red ball on the B plus. I'll let you have A for you. I'm not getting a poo-poot at the party. Put it again. We've got anything else in there.

Never poo-poo the party. We all have one of parties. Never poo-poo-poo at the party. To avoid the A-T in. It's why we don't get invited. Yeah, obviously. Harry did get once. We've got to be asked back.

What do you mean, mate? We're influencers now. Sure. Yeah, we don't get invited to any parties. Yeah, that's all about to change, though. Just so you won't. Okay, hope the phone rings soon. Okay, so that's racing balls.

We've gone with an A grade. The Discord had this at a B, 39.1% in B tier, and then 27% in A and 21% in C. So in and around that area. Which just leaves us with one more to look at, and that is Williams. Some differences this year with the addition of some sponsors. We didn't look at this one.

Well, it was just last week. We looked at this one, Sam. So not a lot of time for our opinions change. You grade here? Yeah, I'm glad we've saved the worst to last. Because this is horrific. I've looked at it a couple of times again. It is appallingly bad.

The three sponsors in that, like I said, the quadrant last time, as three things famously fit into four, the wheel rims are genuinely vile. They're so disgusting. The juror sale on the top, that's been there forever in case you've already just picked that up. You can't be mad at brand new, innovative market. The amount of people that didn't get that joke cracks me up.

That shows how many people have been listening for that one. Yeah, right. No one. Thanks for tuning in. I hate this. I hate, they built us up with this promise of retro and really cool old school Williams and they went too hard on it. The logo's got even on the blooming car

and it's just so underdelivered. It's a mess. It doesn't know where it's going. I don't like it. I'm really disappointed by it because I'm expecting Williams to come out looking really cool early 2000s or 90s. They haven't. Plus, I'm glad they've got the sponsors

but they've just applied them in such a bad way. So I'm not just unhappy with delivery. I'm really disappointing in the direction they've gone with it. So for me, it's a knee. Oof. Harry, what about you? yeah I hate it listenie uh

alone for those stupid roulette wills I hate them so much I'll really hate them for it all on hate yeah because they're hideous yeah it's a real shame for Williams

uh I could see them refining that next year and doing it well and it could it could shoot his way to the top near the top of list

but like what come on near the top uh I think it could. Like if they put all the, the ingredients are there, I think. They've just not cooked them very well.

They're raw, quite frankly. So, yeah, it's terrible, isn't he? I didn't think going into this, I was going to be the most positive

on this livery, but here I am with my D plus. I mean, like, oh man, I love this livery compared to you both. Given that the E tier is the only one that has nothing in it,

and two of us have put it in the E tier. Sorry, Williams. there you go which completes the the tier list that we have with at least one car in each tier so from best to worse oh Ben what's a Discord say about Williams

good catch again the Discord Ben are very important to us particularly me and Harry yeah the Discord might actually not be very happy with us because they like this car B-T is the most common

30-4 Forget what I said forget the Discord how it's a hideous taste it was kind of a between a B and a C, C was 28.3%, but definitely not an E. So in terms of all 11, when we put them all on a tier list, we've got HASS as the best livery,

the only S tier that we've given out. The only A tier goes to racing bulls. Two teams in the B tier, Red Bull, take the third spot on the podium, followed by Cadillac. C tier is the most populated tier because we've got four cars in there. We've got Mercedes, McLaren, Aster Martin, and Audi in that. order. D-tier, Ferrari and Alpine. Al-Pee, they've got to be buzzing. They've managed to avoid the wooden spoon here because Williams are the only team in E-tier. And that is us going to be cooked

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Live well for life. Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Welcome back to the final part of today's episode. It's time for F1 Alphabeti. Can we do my one as well now? Nope. All right, six questions. So we're going to go from letters R to W today.

I have to look at the bloody alphabet. So I can remember what's in that group. I shouldn't be too bad. But okay. We're going from R2. to double you. We've done a lot of A to Fs recently. Each letter has a category attached to it, and the guys just have to answer the question I give them, and whoever gets the most wins. This one's a pretty easy one, kind of like. Sam, do you want to start us off? What letter would

you like? So many S's in that sentence, Ben, that I'm going to pick the letter S. Much like the 2026 has. S stands for sectors. Oh, okay. Which of the sectors at Monaco is the longest. Oh, in time? Or length? Time, but it's the same answer, I think. Okay.

I mean, I was sector two. You're absolutely right. Sector two. Time-wise, is pretty much the first and third added together. But a great start for you, Sam. Well done. Harry. You, please, Ben.

You stands for. the United States of America. Oh, Eagle, no way it's place. Free bird. Okay, so four options here. In which of these four states has there never been a United States Grand Prix? New York, Arizona, Indiana, Illinois.

He's just making up words here. They are states, I promise. get more more cut content oh New York no New York Watkins Glen

is oh yeah of course the correct answer is Illinois at least until there's a Chicago Grand Prix we haven't had one there but we have had a Phoenix Grand Prix all right we have had a Phoenix Grand Prix

and Indianapolis obviously there. Sam, back to you. I'll have Ruh, please. R is for Renault. In what year did Renault change tire suppliers from Michelin to Bridgestone?

I ain't got a clue. So let's go with 1986. No. Good. This feels like a question Harry might know. Yeah.

Is it sorry, Bridgetstone to Pirelli? So, Michelin to Bridgestone. Mission to Bridgestone. 2007? Spot on. Nice, very good. No stealing points here, but. For question, because the whole grid did, mate.

Yeah. I would go Illinois, so. Yeah, with annoying. Just like you. You can get each other's questions, right? Well, Ben lives in Illinois because he's yet annoying. Yeah, roasted. Boom.

That's for himself. Curstice is right here It's with double the grave Of course she's left I don't have left like half an hour ago If she walked out I mean fair at this point

I don't even know It's question it is anymore Harry T please Ben T stands for Well Sonoda What is Sonoda What is Sonoda's best race

In F1? This first one Bahrain Whatever Surely not No I don't know. Why is his best race?

He was P4 once. Oh, was it Abu Dhabi? Yeah, Avidav. Same year. Yeah. He loves the start. He loves the end. I like that one because he had a great Abu Dhabi 2020.

And no one remembers because there were other things going on in that race. Yeah, I must admit, I forgot that. Yeah. Amongst a lot of other things. So it's no surprise. Sam, back to you for the next one. I'll have V, please, Ben. I think you can say it better than that.

V. I was going for V, but sure. Yeah, I gather it. You've got the 50-50. You've got the true. Yeah! No! True or false?

Oh, God. Sorry, V stands for Villeneuve in this instance. True or false? Jacques Villeneuve attempted to qualify for the 1983 Canadian Grand Prix. are we done. It's working out how old he is. I'm going to say it's false. It's true.

I'll get a grip. I don't know how old Jacques Villeneuve was at the time. Really? Like 183, you said. Yeah. But Jacques Villeneuve, brother of Jill Villeneuve, an uncle of Jack Villeneuve, did try and qualify for the 1983 Grand Prix.

That is very, very. Very arsh. The actual one was 12. He was 12. Have you moved to Illinois yet, Ben? Apologies to the people are bit annoyed if you're listening. I hope it's delightful.

Apologies to the people of listening to this episode, I think, at this point. Harry. W. W stands for Verline with the opportunity to draw here. Who replaced Verl.

line at Salba at the start of the 2017 season. No, you've got this, bro. Who replaced him? And he replaced him temporarily at the start of the 2017 season. Jivanazzi? It was. Went horribly wrong, but it was Antonio Jiminazzi, which means, after all that, it is a draw.

Excellent. We waste you your time. Sorry, everyone. It's worth playing, I'm sure. Well, even if that wasn't, worth playing. I know something that is absolutely worth doing because it is the greatest segment in all of podcasting. It is the LB Question of the Week. Thank you very much. Our question of the week this time around was, if there was an F1 Super Bowl who would play the halftime show.

And that's the last of the Super Bowl discourse We'll be getting into this evening What about the answer to the question? My favourite one came from Death Patel Who said, Zach Brown with the rendition of Hotline Bling Being about the World Champs Side note, did you see McLaren did some posts the other day With Lando picking up a phone saying

It was such a world champion hotline No, I'm out of blocks from my feed Yeah, that's fair All those words blocks Yeah, can't see it. Very valid. White Trash Terrier on Instagram said King Flavio performing

I like to move it That's so good I'm going to give a shout out to Noah Because I think Noah probably has the right answer Fleetwood Mac, obviously Obviously We've got to get the chain in there Oh yeah

I love Flewitwood Mac Got a shout this one out Because my OG here has mentioned me It's DG on Instagram Sam should perform the F1 back and forth theme for 25 minutes. Good. I think it'll become like a tongue twister

where I don't know what bit I'm on. Fack and Booth. Beth One. Kirk, a few mentions here for just big screen showing Shrek too. I'd watch that. Related to Shrek, an answer from Clayton

was just, Puss and Donkey Y'all. Oh. I watched the donkeys talking about parfait sing yesterday. Yeah, when he's like, Oger's aren't like cakes. He's like, well, I love parfait. Why are you watching that scene in that scene? I quoted it a lot for the no reason.

And Rosie told me that I get the words wrong every time. So I was told her to why. She proved her wrong or right? No, no, no, she very much right. And I was wrong with the words again there, so she'll love that. That Mikey Spikey chap, no, we're not reading that out. Just saying. Oh, I need to find that immediately.

I'm really out. Quite a few shouts as well for Otman as nine children, obviously. Oh, etc. Oh, DJ. Great answer from DJ. Lewis Hamilton and Shaula Claire, Boulevard of Broken Team. Oh, that's clever. That's great.

One chain of Ginger, Carla Sank, singing the extended smooth operator. Hello. Hello. Kirstie, you are incorrect with your message that you've just sent, saying no one said Belgian John. Gialo said the Belgian anthem opera singer from 2023. Belgian John is back. Keep the same outfit as well, Belgian John.

Or be me for short. No. Peter Brouser said, Hunberg. Hangvig. Been a while. Been a while. OG fan there.

Much love to you for remembering that one. One from Matt. The sound of Lance Troll, loudly licking jam off a window. When I saw that come through, it proper got me. That really made me laugh. Uncle Timmy says

it would just be Michael Kane coming out and saying, Mashed away. Oh, gosh, oh, my. 25 minutes. What is a Super Bowl? How can a bowl be super? Is it a salad bowl?

Why is Michael Gaines so confused with your impression? Man's like 90. It's like a thousand years old. Come on. Last one from me is from Rob, which is Jackie Stewart and Rod Stewart, two brothers separated at birth would reunite for a one-off fireworks rendition of handbags and glad right.

Oh, yeah. I'd pay to see that. I don't understand this one from Coop's chair who just said, The Pizza King! I don't get it. I love it. I don't get it. I love it, but what are you talking about? Yeah, what are you talking about, mate?

Lord a shout out, oh, there is Christian Horner and the Little Terriers. Ooh. Keep those terriers away. that's it that's some great answers on there yeah feels like a shame to end on that one but there were a lot of great answers

very well done people of Instagram and Twitter of course we'll have another one next week well I can't believe it exhibit here and gone what a guy but his time's over here pin my F1 is done and dusted for another year

Sam if you wouldn't mind getting us out of here yeah I think he's trying to fit a toilet at the back of my car or something. I can't stop it before it gets too much. Thanks for listening, folks. If you're only excuse to come and join the Patreon, by the way, we're about to record a little draft episode. I won't give too much away,

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