It has been a whirlwind month of February in Formulation One. There was the announcement that Madrid could be becoming a member of the calendar in 2026, then the collection rejected Andretti’s bid to affix the grid in 2025 or 2026, Oh, after which it was introduced that Lewis Hamilton would go away Mercedes to affix Ferrari after the 2024 season.

Amid all that, it is easy to neglect that the month of February is often reserved for groups to unveil their vehicles for the brand new season. Whereas F1 has been abuzz with breaking information bombshells, all 10 groups have nonetheless discovered the time to launch their new liveries for 2024.

Now that the occasion areas that hosted all these launch events have been swept up, ESPN’s Laurence Edmondson, Nate Saunders and Austin Lindberg pore over the photographs from these nights to find out whose new look is most eye-catching. That is the 2024 Formulation One livery Energy Rankings:

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10. Alpine

This automotive was revealed alongside Alpine’s new WEC entry on the launch in Enstone. All I am going to say is Google “Alpine A424” and you may see how the livery ought to look. — Edmondson

Garbage. I may have completed higher on Microsoft Paint. Alpine has struggled to forge a significant identification in F1 since 2021, and this livery being so nondescript solely reinforces that feeling. I nonetheless do not know what this staff or this model stands for. — Saunders

This had so, a lot potential. I really like how the varied shades of pink and blue overlay each other, in these angular shapes that recall the “A” of the Alpine emblem. It is simply so disappointing that we see so little of that as a result of somebody with a calculator in Enstone decided that each brushstroke would price the staff eight millionths of a second over the course of a race. — Lindberg

9. Williams

Good, enterprise like, a bit boring. There’s a lot of complaints about how a lot carbon fibre we see on the grid, however nobody complains in regards to the quantity of blue. Anyway, the Duracell airbox nonetheless makes me smile. — Edmondson

Not nice, not horrible. A bit underwhelming for a staff like Williams. I agree on the Duracell airbox, however in any other case this livery leaves me wanting extra. — Saunders

I do like the intense blue on high of the nostril and the again half of the sidepods, however there’s a number of navy on this automotive that I am unsure goes to pop when it isn’t below studio lights and in entrance of vivid blue LCD screens. — Lindberg

8. Sauber

That is a number of uncovered carbon fibre, even by 2024 requirements, and it is damaged up by … haphazardly conceptualised strains of neon inexperienced? Am I supposed to think about a circuit board? Is Stake transferring to Formulation E? — Lindberg

Sure, there’s a lot of black, however it is a putting color we’ve not had on the grid for a very long time. I am a sucker for NFL Coloration Rush kits and beloved the fluorescent flashes on the Brawn GP automotive in 2009. I really feel like there’s elements of each ideas at play right here and it really works for a staff making an attempt to be just a little exterior of the field. It could possibly be higher, however the palette of the grid’s vehicles has been getting blander yearly, so total it is a welcome new addition. — Saunders

I do not hate it, I actually do not. This staff needed a novel identification on the grid and the lurid inexperienced achieves that. Additionally, allow them to have some enjoyable earlier than the company figures from Audi arrive and begin having six-hour conferences over the dimensions and site of their 4 rings. — Edmondson

7. Haas

Not less than Haas’s vehicles had been various shades of black and gray earlier than F1’s fad weight loss program of uncovered carbon fibre. I am unsure that is the sort of trendsetting anybody ought to really feel too happy with, although. — Lindberg

Controversial opinion klaxon: What’s mistaken with carbon fibre? On a street automotive you’d pay eye-watering quantities of cash to see this a lot of the stuff. Carried out proper, like Haas has with contrasting white and purple, I feel it seems to be sharp. — Edmondson

I agree. “Sharp” is the proper phrase. This is not a large number of colors like among the different vehicles on the grid. I like the usage of the entrance and rear wing to proudly and prominently carry the purple related to the staff’s emblem. The flashes of white are additionally an excellent contact. — Saunders

6. McLaren

I want they’d totally embrace the papaya shade of orange Bruce McLaren’s early vehicles made well-known as they’ve completed in different collection, just like the automotive Fernando Alonso first raced with on the Indy 500 in 2017. Perhaps that is an excessive amount of to ask of in F1 in the meanwhile. That is shut sufficient for now. — Saunders

I am glad they ditched the blue, however the Google colors on the wheels nonetheless conflict with an otherwise-sleek livery. Additional factors for the chevron design the place the 2 colors meet, which I can solely assume is an intentional nod in the direction of the Marlboro McLarens of the Eighties and Nineties. — Edmondson

Little bit of a disgrace that essentially the most putting a part of this livery is CEO Zak Brown’s skill to promote sponsorship actual property, however agreed, Laurence, the nod to the liveries of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna is a really good contact. — Lindberg

5. RB

There’s lots to love about this, combine of colors and nearly no uncovered carbon fibre. Followers are, rightly, irritated by the staff’s nonsensical identify, however that is a minimum of a throwback to one thing from Pink Bull’s racing heritage. It passes the “will it look good on monitor” take a look at. — Saunders

Toro Rosso, again from the useless. — Lindberg

If the Buffalo Payments had sponsored Toro Rosso between 2017 and 2019, that is what the automotive would have regarded like — and I am all for it. Extra importantly, this livery sees the return of a uncommon factor in F1: gloss paint. Everybody appears to make use of a matte end these days, which has the tendency to make all liveries look flat. — Edmondson

4. Ferrari

I had two nagging emotions about this automotive. One, it seems to be extra like a billboard than most, with sponsors clumsily scattered throughout. Two, in the event you advised me the white and yellow strains had been added on the final second as an afterthought, I might consider you. It simply seems to be a bit messy, however Ferrari purple all the time seems to be good. It is an uphill battle for these in Maranello, although; to me, Michael Schumacher’s vehicles (purple with shades of white) of the early-2000s had been good. Exhausting to get shut. — Saunders

I grew up within the Nineties, so for me the proper Ferrari livery is easy: deep shiny purple on the physique, black wings, elective gold wheels. It is most likely a controversial opinion, however I most popular final 12 months’s design. — Edmondson

Ferrari has a nasty behavior of defining a season’s automotive by an awkwardly formed accent line or a clumsy-looking geometric form, however not this 12 months. The yellow and white strains look totally pure and neatly intensify what each racing Ferrari, exterior of October 1964, must be: a sea of purple. — Lindberg

3. Pink Bull

Copy, paste, win the title, repeat. I’ve respect for the “If it ain’t broke, do not repair it” method. — Edmondson

Ditto. I’ve all the time appreciated this iteration of Pink Bull’s livery. This look additionally has an aura about it after being a foremost character in 2021’s superb season after which the 2 dominant seasons which have adopted. — Saunders

This would be the ninth straight season through which the livery, aside from the shuffling of some sponsors, will probably be similar. I am sufficiently old to recollect Pink Bull’s mission assertion when it launched its F1 programme in 2005: “To win and to do it in a different way.” — Lindberg

2. Mercedes

A pleasant mixture of outdated and new. Fittingly (but additionally unknowingly) for Hamilton’s final season, he’ll race in a automotive that appears like a mixture of totally different title-winning vehicles from the previous 10 years. It may not be essentially the most interesting or inspiring color, however in the event you’re referred to as the Silver Arrows, you get away with it. Seen straight on, particularly, this automotive seems to be nice. — Saunders

This seems like a compromise resolution between the followers who needed the return of all silver and the followers who consider the W11 (the primary all-black livery in 2020) won’t ever be improved upon. Like all good compromises, it’s going to most likely depart neither facet glad. — Edmondson

I do not know, Laurence, I really feel fairly glad with Mercedes efficiently marrying the silver and black design ideas. It is an ideal livery for Hamilton’s farewell season in Brackley. — Lindberg

1. Aston Martin

If you cannot make British racing inexperienced look good, you are doing one thing mistaken. One level misplaced for the uncovered carbon fibre on the sidepods, in any other case that is ace. — Saunders

Nonetheless one of many best-looking vehicles on the grid. Factors are misplaced for the clashing inexperienced of Aramco on the rear wing and the seemingly pointless addition of extra uncovered carbon fibre on the sidepods. — Edmondson

I like Aston’s neon accent color, however dialing it again a notch might be extra becoming for the model. Let that British racing inexperienced sing. — Lindberg