Alpine has confirmed that it will run a predominantly pink livery for the opening two races of the 2022 Formula 1 season.
The French squad unveiled its car on Monday evening, ahead of pre-season testing later this week.
The car’s livery features flashes of pink but remains largely blue, which Alpine’s traditional race colour.
The inclusion of pink comes the deal it signed with Austrian water treatment company BWT, who is its title sponsor for the upcoming season.
However, for the opening two races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, a revised livery will be used, in which the car will be mostly pink.
BWT was the title sponsor of Force India/Racing Point from 2017 to 2020, with the Silverstone-based squad running the pink-coloured car for four seasons.
Alpine fields Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon for the second successive year, while reigning Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri will act as its reserve.
The car will make its on-track debut in Barcelona on Tuesday during a filming day, one day prior to the start of pre-season testing.
I feel like there must be a much more elegant solution to adding pink to the mix than either of these liveries. It’s very confusing as to why most F1 cars have had such amateur and sloppy-looking liveries over the past decade or so, even the major teams with insane budgets. It’s really not that difficult of a job to do with even basic understanding of color theory and proportions. I can only assume most of the people behind these designs are art school graduates who learned more about gender studies and other Marxist propaganda than actual art and design.
Interesting that this is posted by Bill C. There must be another Bill C here because this is not my post. Then again, sometimes when I do post on this website, the user name and email address are already filled in with somebody’s information that is not mine.???
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