Formula 1 pushing for more distinctive car liveries in 2025

The report claims that feedback from TV coverage has pointed out that some cars look similar especially in night races.

This comes at a time when F1 cars are very similar in their bodywork as well, to the point that if they were painted white or black, only the keen-eye expert could tell them apart. That is due to the latest F1 regulations, probably the most prescriptive in the history of the sport.

A new trend in F1 these days, that is making differentiating cars more difficult is the exposed carbon fiber, which teams have resorted to to use less paint consequently reduce the weight of the cars, something many teams have struggled with - Alpine ran the first few races in 2024 with an overweight car.

That means F1 cars nowadays have so much black in their liveries, and the report claims Mercedes, Aston Martin, Williams and VCARB are the cars the mostly viewers mix up.

Discussions have already started with the teams in order to find a solution for 2025, with discussions planned for the next F1 Commission meeting, but the FOM and the FIA are trying to avoid having to impose rules to get this problem sorted.

Instead they are looking to collaborate with the teams in order to find a solution, and speaking to Motorsport.com, FIA's single seater head, Nikolas Tombazis said: "As always in F1, it is a bit more complicated than maybe meets the eye.

"One issue is that cars have a bit too much naked carbon, because obviously the weight of paint, so the cars have a bit too much black.

"There has also been a lot of work done by all teams to change the type of paint or indeed a lot of it nowadays is extremely thin films, to keep the weight as low as possible.

"And another issue is that some teams seem to use similar colour schemes, so they end up with cars that maybe look visually quite close to each other. We're discussing it still with the teams, and it will be discussed in the next F1 Commission," he explained.

However, Tombazis insisted the sport must reach this goal through collaboration rather than issued stringent regulations to force the teams to change their liveries.

He said: "We need to get to some process where teams in some way or other communicate with each other and say: ‘Well, if your car is blue here, mine will not be blue there.’ Or something like that.

"But how exactly that process would work [remains to be seen]. It's not a regulatory process. We don't want to be making regulations about liveries as the FIA, but we do want cars to be distinguishable," he concluded.