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Seanagh (pronounced shawn-ah) | UK | she/her | autistic

Mostly a Formula 1 blog, with snippets of Star Trek and other sports!

Drivers (current grid) - Lewis Hamilton, Alex Albon & Doriane Pin (F1 Academy)

Drivers (retired) - Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button & Michael Schumacher

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Other tags: #Livery Watch (where I yell about car paint); #Helmet Watch (where I yell about helmets); #my edit (all my edits, lockscreens and moodboards).

And now for a Livery Watch 2026 post that is actually on time! It's Monaco race week and as is starting to become a bit of a norm, I have more one-off liveries to chat about.

Without further ado, lets get into it!

McLaren - 1000th Grand Prix livery

This season McLaren are set to become only the second team in F1 history to contest 1000 Grand Prix, after Ferrari celebrated their 1000th race at the Tuscan GP in 2020 (still one of the F1 liveries of all time btw). McLaren's 1000th race celebrations were originally scheduled for Miami, but after the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian GPs, that goalpost has since moved to this weekends race in Monaco.

This livery will be ran over the Monaco and Barcalona-Catalunya Grand Prix (I can only assume the team's double DNS in China has further added to the shifting milestone), and features a geometric design of metallic papaya orange and black. As well as the large 1000 on the side, the livery features the chassis number, the date of the upcoming Monaco GP, and the years of McLaren's various milestones across their F1 History - from their first race, first win, and their championship winning seasons.

As McLaren ran a vintage style livery at last year's Monaco race, I actually don't mind the shift in design to something that feels very modern. I think making the orange segments metallic is a fantastic design touch and will look beautiful against the black sections (I don't know if it's a nod to their famous chrome livery, or just for fun, but I am not immune to some shiny things).

I am somewhat biased as orange is my favourite colour, but I think this livery is a good blending of the team's current visual identity with the sentimentality of McLaren's 1000th race. I am very much looking forward to seeing what the car looks like on track!

8.5/10

Aston Martin - 'From Rock to Racetrack' livery

Created in collaboration with the team's partner Maaden, Aston Martin's one off livery for Monaco is inspired by the transformation of metals and minerals to high-performance engineering (I did take that straight from the press release).'

It features two sections on the nosecone and engine cover that has been covered in a iridescent wrap that is designed to change colour depending on where you view it from, so in theory the car should change colour as it moves around the Monaco circuit.

This kind of effect is what I wanted Racing Bulls' holographic livery to be like last year, so I have to admit my expectations are pretty high for how it's going to look on track. Although I would have liked to see the nosecone be fully wrapped, instead of the empty black section in the middle where the driver number and some sponsor logos are. It does detract from the overall look, especially if the colour shift is meant to be as striking as claimed on the Aston Martin website.

This definitely feels like the most different from their core livery AM have ever done, so I have to applaud the effort even if we can't see the full effect just yet. (I may update this section of the write-up post-race)

...yeah hi can we just pretend this isn't 50 million years late? okay? grand.

The only justification I have for Livery Watch 2026 Miami being *checks watch* a month to day after the Miami GP is that my heart just was not in the race weekend at all after we'd came back from holiday the weekend before.

BUT! I am a stubborn completionist and it's going to bug me until the end of time if I don't have a livery watch post for Miami. So. With all that being said, let's jump in.

Cadillac - First Home Race Livery

Suffice to say, I wasn't massively surprised by Cadillac running a one off livery for their first of three home races in the USA this season. And I was half-expecting a stars and stripes motif to feature somewhere on the car. Not pictured is the 50 stars on the front wing, one for each state, and a red-to-white-to-blue gradient on the rear wing, with USA written in the white section.

I think my favourite part of the livery is actually the non-themed change of the car being white on both sides. I think it looks so much cleaner than their core livery, and I don't mind the stars and stripes gradient on the engine cover. It's not massively in your face and is still perfectly in keeping with Cadillac's monochrome branding.

I'm not wowed, but I don't hate it. 6/10

Racing Bulls - Red Bull Summer Edition Livery

My initial thoughts when the pictures of this first dropped back in my was that it was like the Brawn GP 001 and Benson and Hedges Jordan had a baby. And honestly, that's still my main view. But, I don't necessarily mean it in a bad way.

The livery takes inspiration from another limited edition Red Bull drink, this time the Sudachi Lime Summer Edition flavour, and features swirls of bright yellow, white and black. And as usual the livery also came with matching team kit and driver overalls over the course of the Miami GP weekend.

As colour schemes goes, you cannot go wrong with pairing a bright colour with black and white - it's going to look good every single time. I say this every time a livery features swooshy lines, but I do like that it naturally makes your eyes move to the different parts of the car. My only main nitpick is that I would have liked to see a little less black and some more white just for that extra pop of brightness.

Overall, it's very bright and very fun and I think it was a really good fit for Miami.