Motorsport.com ranks every 2025 F1 livery

As the curtain fell on the bombastic F1 75 event at the O2 Arena in London, all 10 liveries that Formula 1’s teams will use in 2025 were revealed over the course of the night – between various musical performances and distinctly varied presentations from each team. 

Everyone will have their own opinion on which (old spec) car was best dressed on the night, and the beauty of livery design is that it’s a purely subjective art. Even last year’s Alpine ‘livery’ had fans…somewhere, presumably. 

Throughout the 2025 season, we’ll be continuing with our ratings for each driver after every race but, on this occasion, we’ll instead be giving our marks out of 10 for the presentations of the liveries this season. 

They’ll be marked on originality, whether it’s an upgrade on last season’s paint scheme, and quite simply due to the author’s own tastes. One’s fellow writers won’t agree, and we’d be surprised if you did too – you have the opportunity to offer your own points of view in the comments. 

Without further ado… 

This livery is a considerable downgrade. It’s hard to go wrong with British Racing Green, especially with Aston Martin’s modern-day icon of fluorescent yellow trim, but the black sidepods appear completely incongruous with the rest of the livery.

Is that a hint that the AMR25 will roll out in Bahrain with a little bit of a weight problem, and that the revised sidepods are going to be in naked carbon in Bahrain testing? We wait, indeed, with bated breath… 

It’s hard to love the new direction for the livery, especially as Aston Martin could have played this very safe and turned up with something that still looked stellar. 

Red Bull Racing RB21

Photo by: Red Bull Content Pool

The same. As usual. It’s become a bit tired (and the cringe factor of the presentation) brings it down a couple of points.

Is there anything more to add? Oh, the sponsor on the rear wing is different. That’s…something.

Williams FW47

Photo by: Williams

It’s blue. Very blue. I mean, it’s fine if you like blue, with a dark blue to medium blue gradient through the car. But it just feels a little bit…low effort, perhaps? The tesselating blue pattern from the previous couple of cars is gone, and the yellow engine cover tease used at the end of last season is nothing but a distant memory. 

It appears the overall livery has been simplified to accentuate the rather conspicuous Atlassian logos now added to the engine cover as Williams has signed what has been touted as its biggest title partnership ever. 

The Duracell battery engine cover remains, but the novelty has probably worn off. 

Kick Sauber C45

Photo by: Liberty Media

The key issue with 2024’s livery was that it looked somewhat pedestrian; the weight-saving efforts with the nude carbon fully dampened the potential of leading with a neon green scheme.  

Thankfully, this year’s effort is much more cohesive. Clearly influenced by the better reception its Las Vegas rendition got, the use of green is more liberal in the first two-thirds of the car. Then there’s a fade gradient that transitions into what appears to be naked carbon at the rear. 

The car shown at the event seemed to be in a much less ennobling livery than the launch images revealed by the team in its press materials. If the actual car looks like the render images, and if that gradient actually blends well into the carbon, then it could be a hit. 

McLaren MCL39

Photo by: McLaren

Team principal Andrea Stella stated that McLaren wanted continuity with its constructors’ championship winner from 2024, and it’s done that; it keeps the papaya flashes draped on top of black carbon in pretty much exactly the same arrangement as before. 

For those hoping for something a little bit more from the team, then you’ll be disappointed. Ultimately isn’t a bad livery by any stretch, but it’s not a great one either; it just merely exists to maintain its post-Ron Dennis-era identity and act as a platform for its plentiful commercial partners. Could there be more orange? Yes. Could the team have played about with the form factor a little more? Yes. But hey, they like what they had – and that’s okay. 

Haas VF-25

Photo by: Haas F1 Team

Less naked carbon, more chance for the designers to flex their creative chops — and Haas has delivered something that should stand out more than its usually conservative efforts.  

A fresh spin on the white, black, and red tones that it has stuck to in the past few seasons looks good, and it’s refreshing to see the sidepods get a bit more of a brighter treatment than just a giant Haas logo splodged on the face. 

Is it the standout from the batch? No, but it’s unmistakably brand loyal and represents one of the more imaginative efforts from the American squad.

Ferrari SF-25

Photo by: Ferrari

It’s red, but it appears to be a much bloodier hue – much like in 2022 – versus the shades of red used over the past couple of years. The added white on the engine cover, naturally to accentuate the HP title sponsorship, rather harks back to the Michael Schumacher days — particularly at the races when its Marlboro sponsorship was covered up by a white square. 

The yellow notes are gone, which is a little bit sad. And if we’re being really picky, the UniCredit sponsorship doesn’t entirely sit well with the rest of the car; the white outlines look a little clumsy. At least the accent stripe relates to its similar World Endurance Championship livery.

I don’t hate this – actually, it’s a decent effort to wrap in HP’s corporate desires into Ferrari’s historic back catalogue of red and white efforts. But I suspect I might be in the minority.

Mercedes F1 W16

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Same, but different. The extra silver on the engine cover and flanks is a nice touch, which upgrades the already-pretty 2024 livery. That begs the question over the scope of INEOS’ involvement with the team, as the red flash that usually surrounded its rollhoop branding is gone – as is said branding, much reduced over the revised livery that will adorn the W16. 

The use of Petronas teal remains tasteful, separated from the silver by the use of black around the car, as suitable Mercedes branding continues to pepper the livery’s blanker spots. 

As we said, it’s an upgrade and I’m quite fond of it. Perhaps there was more scope to be imaginative around the sidepods, which remain black with a teal flash. Otherwise, it’s a lovely livery.

Alpine A525

Photo by: Alpine

That’s more like it! After last year’s woeful effort as it eschewed paintwork in line with its overweight chassis, Alpine at least started to add a little bit more paint back onto the car towards the end of 2024. This time, it’s back with a bang – and for followers of F1 esoterica, with a paint job similar to Brabham’s 1992 BT60B.  

The pink nose wouldn’t flawlessly merge with the metallic blue, so the carbon black has been kept sparingly to create space between the two. To see Alpine’s ‘proper’ brand colours back in F1 is a welcome sight, and the team has been bold with its inventive contrast between colours. In other words, it’s anathema to last year’s carbon-heavy liveries. 

Further notes: the team has opened its livery space on the engine cover to new fuel partner Eni, which returns to F1 for the first time (when it was Agip) since 2000. You’ll see the pink and blue machines from a mile away – which is what a distinctive livery is all about. Quite the turnaround – chapeau, Alpine. 

Racing Bulls VCARB 02

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“White like Turkey teeth,” said comedian Munya Chawawa, who was brought in to present the team’s new identity. And… it’s very white, but with the clearest Red Bull iconography that the team has used since its days as Toro Rosso. 

There’s the yellow nose cap and roll hoop, flanked by the scarlet hues of the energy drink brand’s bull logo. The white backdrop is likely all the better for the myriad sponsors involved, which no longer have to rely on the clumsy white blocks of colour hurled onto the metallic blue tones that RB used last year. 

There’s at least a little bit of blue on the car, albeit at the rear as it progresses into an MC Escher-esque transition from a dark blue to white with the use of further Red Bull logos.

Think Red Bull’s revered 2020 Turkey one-off livery, but perhaps a little more cluttered. It’s still pretty nice, though.