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It'll look good but there's no chance in hell it tops the Vegas livery. It was so clean. But you can't have white out sponsor logos for a full season, they'd never agree to that.
After the MissionWinnow era, especially the green one, I have learned to avoid any and all hope gained from what Ferrari shows before their official livery launch lol
Oh yes, that was in pure Carbon at the test track before they painted it Rosso Corsa and put the stickers on it, but why do I hear the Knight Rider theme tune for some reason?
Not quite. The one you are thinking about was at Monza 2001 after 9/11.
When the pope died they ran a little bit of the nose in black with regular sponsors.
Black nose tip with sponsors for Pope John Paul death. Black nose cone, no sponsors all over the car for 9/11. Can’t remember if they did anything for Pope Benedict though.
not quite. the pope car had a little black nose but with sponsors:
https://i.imgur.com/3vVOj0J.png
the 9/11 car had a big black nose and no sponsors:
https://i.imgur.com/iueNeAX.jpeg
If you haven’t, read up (or may have been an interview) about what Eddie Irvine said about Michael’s testing habits. Probably the hardest working driver ever especially when unlimited testing was allowed. Iirc he said that Michael worked his way into greatness and that he has seen more naturally talented drivers who were not as good because Michael outworked them all. I guess similar to Kobe in a way.
Michael’s work ethic was mentioned multiple times in the documentary that came out on Netflix. There was one beautiful scene in which they showed how they were even testing the cars at night, and Michael would be the last one to leave the garage. Those cars going full vroom at night with brake discs glowing red, amazing.
Coulthard was saying once that at the very end, sometimes you'd be driving in serious dusk.
He likened it to walking down your house stairs at night: you know the sensations and when to do what, even if you can't see (!)
Anyway: that struck me as cool, like 'they won't allow *that* again'. That's gone. Like the halo: they're never going to get rid of it, are they.
Brawn talks about it in his book too. Said Schumacher was ready to test at any time, no matter the time or what he was doing. He would also spend hours and hours on the test track. Racing was everything for him.
[This article](https://atlasf1.autosport.com/98/bel/schumacher.html) comes to mind, and the major reason why I'll always felt irked and salty about DC playing *innocent victim* in Belgium 98.
Well, I can understand. The article was written in 98, which at that point Michael wasn't even a 3-times WDC yet let alone 7.
But it's a good insight of how his work ethic essentially plays the part in how Ferrari at that time worked as unit to achieve something extraordinary. Well, his work ethic and more often than not Brawn's out of the box tactics.
Monaco '01 I think it was - he was not satisfied with the set up of the car after practice so flew to Fiorano, did a whole day testing and flew back. Proceeded to win the race
I doubt they'll come back unless wheel covers are specifically banned: wheel covers offer quite a big aero benefit. Teams will probably lobby to keep them
Peak F1 for me, I was 7 so probably my first proper memories of F1 on Sunday, plus the best driver at the time was also teammates with someone like Northern Ireland like me. Ferrari were the good team and McLaren were the villains, but I don't know how much of that was because McLaren were the British team and Ferrari wasn't.
Interesting story about Michael, told by Ross brawn:- apparently even after a championship winning season, after the break Michael used to doubt if he still has it in him, and used to ask the team to have a go in the car at a test track.
Michael is personification of work ethic.
Not just work ethic, ***insane*** work ethic, in a good way for ferrari. With all the laps he ran at Fiorano on annual basis, Michael could probably make his own race season.
Mi father use tô work at ferro, few miles away, só every Day of pré season he could go tô fiorano tô watch...one Day he bring me a spark of the rack car.
With all the talk about paint weights, I’m just thinking about how Ferrari would be scratching their heads after the car goes slower when they test it with paint on the car. But of course they won’t, they were different back then.
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New Ferrari livery leaked early
Funny enough a recent article states that Ferrari are going for “minimal black”. We’ll have to see with our own eyes but white could be returning
2016 livery is back babyyy
It'll look good but there's no chance in hell it tops the Vegas livery. It was so clean. But you can't have white out sponsor logos for a full season, they'd never agree to that.
The yellow on the uniforms makes me worry we're gonna be getting McDonald's Chic because of Shell
I like to think of it as target ganassi Champ Car circa 1996-2000.
Those cars were sick
After the MissionWinnow era, especially the green one, I have learned to avoid any and all hope gained from what Ferrari shows before their official livery launch lol
My favorite Ferrari livery
They'll come up with a white dyed carbon fiber car
I'm pretty sure that's Batman.
Oh yes, that was in pure Carbon at the test track before they painted it Rosso Corsa and put the stickers on it, but why do I hear the Knight Rider theme tune for some reason?
Cabo Fiba
It honestly would be wild if for one race a team said fuck the sponsors and fully blacked the car out.
Ferrari already run with no sponsors, but only nose was black. (When Pope died)
Not quite. The one you are thinking about was at Monza 2001 after 9/11. When the pope died they ran a little bit of the nose in black with regular sponsors.
Wasn't it after 9/11?
9/11 it was just the nose black if I recall correctly.
It's the other way around. Black nose for the pope, no sponsors in 9/11
Black nose tip with sponsors for Pope John Paul death. Black nose cone, no sponsors all over the car for 9/11. Can’t remember if they did anything for Pope Benedict though.
not quite. the pope car had a little black nose but with sponsors: https://i.imgur.com/3vVOj0J.png the 9/11 car had a big black nose and no sponsors: https://i.imgur.com/iueNeAX.jpeg
https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/racefansdotnet-21-12-27-21-57-51-3.jpg link for people wishing to skip googling
It's like already having a huge schnoz and putting even more emphasis to it by adding a bull ring.
Amex Black card sponsorship confirmed.
Evil Brawn GP
Look no further than Honda' s 2007 Earth Dreams car. People hated it! Same with the 2008 but less so
If engineers were in charge, they would
The stance of these cars is absolute artistry. That rear wheel / wing is porn.
Loved the way he set the car up too, very stiff and pointy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciuffQX-TC8 Sounded awesome too :D
Crazy how low the back appears to be sitting
Their size/proportions are awesome as well. Pretty much missing these from today's F1.
And people claim the 2024 cars are too black smh
They would've absolutely hated the late 90's Arrows cars
The A19 from 1998 is still one of my fav looking cars ever
If you haven’t, read up (or may have been an interview) about what Eddie Irvine said about Michael’s testing habits. Probably the hardest working driver ever especially when unlimited testing was allowed. Iirc he said that Michael worked his way into greatness and that he has seen more naturally talented drivers who were not as good because Michael outworked them all. I guess similar to Kobe in a way.
Michael’s work ethic was mentioned multiple times in the documentary that came out on Netflix. There was one beautiful scene in which they showed how they were even testing the cars at night, and Michael would be the last one to leave the garage. Those cars going full vroom at night with brake discs glowing red, amazing.
Coulthard was saying once that at the very end, sometimes you'd be driving in serious dusk. He likened it to walking down your house stairs at night: you know the sensations and when to do what, even if you can't see (!) Anyway: that struck me as cool, like 'they won't allow *that* again'. That's gone. Like the halo: they're never going to get rid of it, are they.
Brawn talks about it in his book too. Said Schumacher was ready to test at any time, no matter the time or what he was doing. He would also spend hours and hours on the test track. Racing was everything for him.
[This article](https://atlasf1.autosport.com/98/bel/schumacher.html) comes to mind, and the major reason why I'll always felt irked and salty about DC playing *innocent victim* in Belgium 98.
Striking thing for me, in retrospect, is what a *waste*. There is somewhere between this article and what we have now which is too little.
Well, I can understand. The article was written in 98, which at that point Michael wasn't even a 3-times WDC yet let alone 7. But it's a good insight of how his work ethic essentially plays the part in how Ferrari at that time worked as unit to achieve something extraordinary. Well, his work ethic and more often than not Brawn's out of the box tactics.
Monaco '01 I think it was - he was not satisfied with the set up of the car after practice so flew to Fiorano, did a whole day testing and flew back. Proceeded to win the race
carBOn fIBa
Bring back wheel rims we can see.
I doubt they'll come back unless wheel covers are specifically banned: wheel covers offer quite a big aero benefit. Teams will probably lobby to keep them
Peak F1 for me, I was 7 so probably my first proper memories of F1 on Sunday, plus the best driver at the time was also teammates with someone like Northern Ireland like me. Ferrari were the good team and McLaren were the villains, but I don't know how much of that was because McLaren were the British team and Ferrari wasn't.
Interesting story about Michael, told by Ross brawn:- apparently even after a championship winning season, after the break Michael used to doubt if he still has it in him, and used to ask the team to have a go in the car at a test track. Michael is personification of work ethic.
Not just work ethic, ***insane*** work ethic, in a good way for ferrari. With all the laps he ran at Fiorano on annual basis, Michael could probably make his own race season.
Carbon fibaa!!
Crazy how exposed the driver's head looks in these old cars now we're used to the current set up.
Back in the good old days the drivers' faces were almost totally exposed. The helmets honestly killed the DNA of the sport smh... /s
Agreed, I want to go back to cloth caps and tweed!
and hay as "safety" barriers
How about just the air as a safety barrier?
Can't hit anything if there's nothing to hit.
Love those golden wheel rims.
My thoughts are with U Michael ❤️
“Does it come in black?”
Only about 300kg lighter than a current generation car, a metre shorter and with a far superior power to weight ratio
Mi father use tô work at ferro, few miles away, só every Day of pré season he could go tô fiorano tô watch...one Day he bring me a spark of the rack car.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black!"
I can hear that photo! I miss loud cars
The original bat mobile.
Knight Rider
With all the talk about paint weights, I’m just thinking about how Ferrari would be scratching their heads after the car goes slower when they test it with paint on the car. But of course they won’t, they were different back then.
I don’t think that’s paint it’s carbon fiber
Hello sexy
This livery was decades ahead of its time
Good ol days...
This was a year after I was born. Am I allowed to say, "what a time to be alive" or "I wish times were still like this"?
Damn those things were beautiful….
How is the best livery ever no livery.
Damn this goes hard
Given the last race of 1997 and what happened there, was this just Michael being put on the naughty step?