Ranking every F1 2025 livery: Is Racing Bulls' really the best?

Surprise star of F1 75 Live, host Jack Whitehall, said it best. F1 liveries often look too similar year to year.

Once the domain of swashbuckling freewheelers, these 200mph billboards have dissapointing tendency to stay rather similar year to year – save for tearing up patches of their colour scheme to accommodate crypto firms, gambling companies and dictators with cash to spare.

Who’s cracked it then, who’s really caught the imagination?

F1 fans don’t want to see exposed carbon, they want bedroom poster fodder, the work computer screensaver that brightens your day.

Below we rank all the 2025 F1 liveries from worst to best.

10. Red Bull

The Milton Keynes Army basically hasn’t altered its livery since 2016.

What happened to the energy drink brand shaking things, challenging the establishment?

By not changing up the livery, it simply gets worse every year.

9. McLaren

McLaren’s switch to orange (we’re calling it that) was a welcome refresh as it pulled itself out the post-Dennis/Hamilton malaise.

Now though, simply doing the same thing again (apart from some blue wing mirrors) has fallen flat. All good and well trying to cement a brand identity as reigning champions, but ‘revealing’ the essentially same thing as last year is more than a little ridiculous.

8. Aston Martin

Aston using less green to make way for Saudi mining and oil companies was never going to get our hearts racing, we’re afraid to say.

7. Haas

Haas’s refusal to go full Stars & Stripes while also describing itself as America’s F1 team (last time we checked it was based on an industrial estate in Banbury) holds it back in this list.

It’s going to get beaten to the punch by Cadillac if it’s not careful at this rate.

We’ll stop being miserable though, it’s definitely an improvement on previous Haas efforts.

6. Alpine

Alpine’s in-house deal/trouble-maker Flavio Briatore told assorted media there was “too much pink” on its new car.

We’d have to agree, but at least it stands out from the rest and is a bit different from last year.

There’s no mistaking that A525.

5. Williams

Team ‘Willies’ is nearly there. Draping itself in blue has the right connotations in being Britain’s F1 squad.

However, a little like team boss James Vowles, who is a bit of a walking verified LinkedIn profile, the livery right now is slightly too ‘B2B’.

Move away from inky of blue to something a bit more ‘Cool Britannia’ like the Williams of the ‘90s, and we might be getting somewhere.

4. Sauber

Does the current Sauber look like regurgitated cat vomit at 200mph? Yes. Is it memorable? Yes. Job done.

3. Mercedes

A slightly menacing look from Mercedes, rightly setting itself up as the dark horse for the title in championship.

2. Ferrari

Probably the only team on the grid with any real class at this stage, a darker hue of red gives it a nod back to Enzo’s bygone bangers.

Is that massive white stripe a sign of the Scuderia bowing to title sponsor HP? Probably. Can it get away with it by looking slightly a Niki Lauda 312T tribute? Definitely.

1. Racing Bulls (or whatever it’s called)

Finally, it’s there. An actually good livery. A clean sweeping design rather like Red Bull’s Honda anniversary scheme from Turkey 2020, there’s not too many sponsors on it, nor exposed carbon – just right.

Like that late ‘70s/early ’80s sweet spot where we were treated to the Marlboro McLarens, JPS Lotuses, Renaults, Ligiers and Ferraris, the Racing Bulls scheme just looks right.

No wonder new driver Isack Hadjar was so impressed.