To me the McLaren-Design from 98-01 is the best Design of a F1 car of all time! Especially the years when the Sponsor "West" took the names of the drivers instead of the brand was such a genius move to me its just beautiful, the livery as the shape of the car itself!
For me it’s undoubtedly the McLaren MP4/23 from 2008. As you have already said, the Vodafone era McLaren liveries were absolutely beautiful and for me the double front wing, the nose fin and all those extra aero parts on the rear end, which were so complex and so fascinating for me as a 7 year old. The livery for me is definitely one of the best, if not the best of all time, just the aerodynamics themselves are by a mile and then some the best looking aerodynamics ever for me and Lewis Hamilton’s iconic yellow helmet just rounds it out. I will never forget and always cherish this car, because it is such a big part of my childhood and still to this date it’s simply soooooo beautiful❤️
20:23 I agree...for me the Renault R26 from the 2006 season is my favourite, and the most memorable. The colour combination, and the sponsors mesh together nicely. Just like you said, bio grooved tires! Also, this car stood out on the grid. That year had a lot of similar liveries; this one stood out.
Also, in case you didn't know, blue and yellow is the color combination of the Asturias flag, the region of spain in which Alonso was born, so it's even more iconic for spanish people.
@@danygarss and on top of that (yes, Im 2 years too late), yellow was the Renault color and that blue is the France blue, they were so smart they managed to fit the colors to represent both Alonso and Renault, thats crazy isn't it
Ligier JS5 (1976). The version with the airbox on top. Looks like somebody decided to put a way too large chimney on the car. It's as if some 5-year old kid designed the car shape and they went along with it. Those Saubers look tasteful next to that monstrosity of a Ligier. Look up the 1976 Ligier-Matra but don't say you haven't been warned. The 2004 "Walrus nose" Williams was no hit either in the looks department. The 1971 March was called the "ironing board" or "tea tray" for its seriously bizarre front wing. The car itself just looks freaky. The 1979 Ensign looks like somebody put steps on the nose on the car or some freaky ladder. Like straight out of a nightmare. Ugliest of all time?? You haven't seen much. The 2012 cars alone have several uglier cars than those Saubers. I wouldn't put the C34 and C35 Sauber in the top 100 list of ugly F1 cars.
Interesting choices really enjoyed your vid! It’s hard to think of a top 5 as there are so many beautiful cars but mine would probably be: 1. McLaren-Mercedes from 1997-2005 especially the 2005 variant, one of the cars that just made my childhood its so amazing I love it, with the West cigarette sponsor and all! 2. is probably all Renault’s from the Alonso era especially the 2005 one. What can I say about that except, my favorite driver in such an awesome car! 3. Ferrari in 2016. when it comes to Ferrari, I just love the white touch. And in that year I loved it more than ever! Sure arguably any Ferrari is beautiful, just like you mentioned Michaels 2006 or the f2002 are awesome as well, but the 2016 takes my top spot! 4. the mclaren Honda from ‘88. I think you all already mentioned it so not much to say here :D 5. BMW- Williams from 2001/02. a very overlooked car in my opinion, I just love that livery it had, it was something special in my eyes and deserves to be on this list. Now as I said, there are so many beauties out there so some honorable mentions would be: - brawn gp from 2009 - the lotus youve mentioned with the jp special livery - sauber from 2018 - Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes from 2007 - any Jordan that had a bright yellow color :D - the Williams you mentioned - the 2018 Red Bull - and last but not least the mclaren mcl33 from 2018 especially with Fernando’s special Abu Dhabi livery :‘) Alright that was quite a long list, if you’re reading this, what is your opinion on my number one (2005 mclaren)? Again enjoyed your vid and sorry for the long comment. Greetings from Germany by the way!
Merry Christmas, dude. For me, I just love the 1977 Tyrell P34. Up until the Gen 2 FE cars it was the closest thing to sci-fi styling on a track. Love it!
Also the vodaphone mclaren, so good, really got me into f1, just beautiful Right so I commented like 10 mins in and you keep making good points like this was a great video dude. Loved how you get stuff of Top Gear, I'm the same. And finally, when's the Q 'n' A out? Looking forward to it
The Yardley brm with its beautifull curves the the way the y shaped 2 colour stripes o the white body, amazing and the 89 ferrari of mansell, stunning lines, totally iconic! Shocked you missed it out!
My favourite looking car is the 1967 green and yellow type 49 Lotus. I have a huge (22”x38") colour pencil drawing of it by a local artist, I paid £1800 for it and love it so much.
I completley agree that the BrawnGP car looks good, it snares me in with its high-wis greenish yellow but i stay for the comfort of the simple livery as a whole, i would probadly put it in first. I Like the recent Renaults but the 2018 livery is probadly the most intresting on the grid. They painted it in a way that gives it two liveries in one, black and yellow from the sides, yellow and black from the front and thats not just intresting, it looks good and i actually feel that it is the only livery that isnt compromised by its wierd aero since the livery in itself is so wierd and multifacited it accomidates for the wierd and multifacited aero
The 2017 Force India (in season one) I just loved the pink and the nose was just so unique compared to everyone else the barge boards with all the flicks just put a massive smile on my face and then the Singapore update to the shark fin w the little spike things on top of the shark fin and then the pink helmets of checo and Esteban blended so well
My top 10 would be chosen from among the following list including a few testing liveries like the Camo-Bull from last year, the blacked-out honda of 2007, and the navy and yellow Renault of 2007. Other liveries I really like are the Rothman's sponsored Williams of the early 90's, the 2017 Sauber, the Earth Dream Honda from 2007, Kimi's Lotus from 2012 (his helmet design was awesome too), the 2007-08 Renault, 2008 Ferrari, 2010 Ferrari. Lol can you tell the era I started to really enjoy F1?
IMO the Brabham BT52 is the best looking F1 car of all time. The livery is pretty good - it's clean, and the Parmalat sponsorship is iconic in its own right - but the design really puts it above and beyond every other F1 car I've ever seen. It looks weaponized, almost like a missile, with the aggressively angled sidepods and swept front wing.
In my humble opinion, F1 cars stopped being beautiful with the introduction of the high noses. They have all been ugly since then. If I was to pick a car based on beauty over function, it’d be the Ferrari F92A driven by Jean Alesi. That car was beautiful. Pitty it didn’t drive as well as it looked
I love the 98 Jordan with benson&hedges livery with the wasp nose cone, I love yellow cars but its hard to get right, I dont like the recent Renaults, the mostly white with red, black and gold highlights of the 2004 bar Honda looks clean, the 1983 bmw mostly cause its shape is so different to everything else, the fan car nice paint, phat tyres and.....the fan, im the same with black tyres I love in modern races when theres wheel contact and the paint rubs off, they look so much cooler
The Jordan liveries were great, Eddie knew how to market a car and I think he knew all the photographers would showcase his car for how good it would look in papers. The Benetton liveries are my favorite, I started watching in 92/93 as a baby and to thia day remember those colorful cars and Michael getting the world's attention in those cars.
I wholeheartedly agree about the ‘06 Renault. I adore that slender, stealthy shape, and the neon blue and yellow... it’s like getting a shot of dopamine every time I look at it.
I’m with you on Renault getting the top spot. I remember as a kid looking at the magazines and my eyes being drawn to it even when the ferraris were in the same picture.
Please do a best sounding car list! I can give my list first: 5. Lutous 98T (the most brutal turbo sound) 4. Renault R26(20000rpm, the best sounding v8) 3. Honda BAR 006 (best sounding Honda engine, sounds like light metal). 2. Ferrari 412T2 (last V12, that downshif sound....) 1. Williams FW26 (I don't need to say anything about it, pure hysteria roar, pure power, pure speed, just like the man who drove it, J Montoya. It just feels....... alive and angry, screaming, roaring, squeezing every little bit of power out of the BMW v10).
very interesting choices! i personally dont like the high vis yellow of the brawn. perhaps if it was gold, it would looks great. I love the white but the bright yellow is not my thing but hey its yours and i respect that. but i do agree that the cleanliness of the brawn at the beginning of the season was properly good looking. personally i think that brabham bt45 should have been higher, i looked at others on the list and i thought to myself, the brabham looks just a bit better. but this is just me! i respect your choices :) edit: have a merry christmas!
I also love the late 90's/early 2000's Jordan's. The bright yellow Benson and Hedges livery was just amazing! Especially early in the liveries lifespan!
At every pick I was going "debatable, debatable, debatable." Then the Lotus 97T and I'm like now we are talking. Tho I think the Malboro livery was easily the best for Mclaren. I might be a bit biased tho since my dad was into F1 big time when I was a kid and I watched the races with him every weekend and, being finns, we were absolutely rooting for Häkkinen, which at the start of my following still had the red and white malboro livery and it's seared in to my eyeballs forever. Watching the flying finn absolutely destroy the track in that goergous car. I still think it was the best era of F1 I've seen.
I think the red and black ferraris of the late 80s and early 90s were stunningly beautiful and simple. The darker red and black just compliment each other so well along with "Good Year" written on the tires
The most beautiful F1 car of the modern age the McLaren MP4/27 from 2012 in my opinion. The golden era of F1, my other favourites are the McLaren MP4/4-MP4/8, Ferrari 1979 312t2-1990-1995 Ferrari, ferrari 310b, ferrari f2000, Williams fw14b, Jordan 1991 and the Silver arrows.
Difficult to provide a full top ten list, though I will comment my number one pick: the 1967 Eagle-Weslake T1G. I have always felt the Eagle really epitomizes the 1960s breed of Formula One car to perfection. This car used a dark, almost navy blue with a simple white racing stripe, and featured some of the cleanest aero one will ever see. Add the visibly exposed, powerful, and beautifully sounding Westlake V12 and drivers like Dan Gurney and Richie Ginther behind the wheel, two of the best (though not hugely successful) drivers of the 1960s, one has a proper picture of 1960s Formula One. The Eagle was also very fast, often qualifying on the front row with the Lotus 49s and finishing on the podium whenever it could actually finish a race. The Eagle also won the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix with Gurney behind the wheel. Known as the "All American Victory," never before or since has an American driver with an American car (never mind one of Gurney's own construction) won a Formula One race. This car ticks all of my essential boxes: beautiful and simple livery, clean aero, and it's own slither of relatively unknown Formula One history. Every time I look at the Eagle, I am honestly unknowing of what not to like.
This is probably a conttoversial one but my favourits of all time is the mercedes wo8 from 2017. The car was so sleek and the way hamiltons gold helmet contrasted the silver paintwork and the wide air intake made the car absolutely gorgeous imo.
I think we're opposites: You hate grooves and loves slicks, while I hate slicks and loves grooves (because the grooves are the first thing I saw when I first saw the image of a black-and-white-and-silver Formula 1 car on an Astro View magazine, back when I was 3 in 2004 iirc) but I still respect your tyre taste anyway! Oh, I agree with the Renault RS26. That car also caught my attention atm! 😇
Your voice is amazing, You should have 100 000 subs for me, because you are clever and you know a lot of things from F1 and that is for me why your videos are so amzing to listen. And my top looking F1 cars: 1. Lotus 79 (John Player and this aero, amazing) 2. Ferrari 641 (great car, John Barnard etc) 3. McLaren MP4/4 (domination and this livery and ofc Senna) 4. Brawn BGP 001 (this lime green and this simple white, its very clean 5. Ferrari 312 T4 (simple: aero and drivers: Schekter and Villeneuve) 6. Williams FW14B (I agree with you)
Nice work man really enjoyed this video Now you have to make a video about top f1 drivers of all time The most dominant cars of all time and the most important a 3 series video about raise and fall raise and fall of ferrari i would really love that
You had a really strong list, not gonna lie. I would like to add my honorable mentions if you don't mind. - The McLaren MP-4/20 (Besides the name, the car looks just too cool) - The Benetton B186 - It looks so different yet its very appealing - The Ferrari 312 T2 - Its super simple and a real eye catcher. But I could not argue with your choices at all, the sport is too beautiful
Great topic! For me the iconic Ferrari is their 1990 car which Prost & Mansell drove. Beautiful distinctive shape with its long sidepods and elegant nose, still blood-red, from an era where it wasn't ruined with too many sponsorship decals. The 2 either side of it (1989 & 1991) were also beautiful, but for me the 1990 is the best ever.
Dear aldas! Like your Videos very much, but this is my favorite! And the Martini Brabham its THE F1 car for me! Greetings from Austria from chris and Thank you very much, your work makes one love F1 even more.
Yep the R25 and R26 is definitely the best, but for me I would say that the Jordan 197, Lotus 79, and the McLaren MP4/14 would be on my list. I love the Benson and Hedges livery of the Jordan and I feel the 197 nailed it with the snake livery design, the 1999 Mclaren simply looks fantastic whatever way you look at it and I personally prefer the West livery to the Vodafone livery, and the Lotus 79, well, just look at it, same reason as you gave for senna's lotus, but then they added a little union jack and the aero on this car just makes it perfect to me.
I'm sorry, the Ferrari 412T2 has to be in, and probably among the 5 first. It is by far the best looking F1 of the mid 90s. In addition to that is the last gp winner V12 engine powered car. And with Jean Alesi on it, a driver that had as inspiration Gilles Villeneuve , we are talking basically about pure racing history.
Absolute no no on the 2012 McLaren, 2009 Brawn GP and 2006 Renault. I absolutely feel you on all the other ones, though! Your 2009 and 2012 picks were the best looking of their respecive fields, yes. And their liveries were indeed quite good. But my god are they fugly in terms of shape and size. 2006 Renault, while it in general does look good, the nosecone is just weird. Also aerowise the Ferrari and McLaren were better looking imo. Good list all in all though! Personally I would have thrown the 2005 McLaren, 2004 Ferrari/Sauber/McLaren, 1994/1995 Williams in the mix, plus some cars I only have a mental image of.
I don't have a specific list, but my favorite car is the BMW Sauber, the colors and the aerodinamics made that car look incredible, but is my opinion. Other car that i like a lot is the MP4/20, amazing car
The Sauber C36 and the Toro Rosso STR12, both from 2017, might be my two favorites. I rather like the shark fins, and the C36 just works, with the black of the shark fin contrasting with the majority dark blue, and the gold of the "25 Years" on the engine cover...it just has me feeling a certain way. The STR12, on the other hand, I think I just like how they went with a livery to differentiate them from Red Bull. And, the Renault RS16 with the testing livery (before they inverted the livery for the season) is probably my third favorite. I don't really know why, because I usually don't like majority-black liveries, but this one just works, with the splashes of yellow on the wings and the turning vanes.
I think the best looking car is the McLaren of around 2001 to 2005 before the chassis went from silver to chrome, when West the barge board sponsor. Also the bronze wheels made it pop The Mclaren of the Hamilton / Button era was ok, and I did like the pop of the red Vodafone logo, but I didn't like black wheels and thought the chrome might have issues with it blinding other drivers with the sun reflection. I am aware of the tradition of the current all orange livery, but its just such a downer when you think back to how the McLaren looked during the Hakkinen to Raikkonen era
my favourite has to be the John Player Special, I got an amazing chance to see the car in the flesh at the Goodwood Festival around 10 years ago. I wasn't just the looks though, the engine sound was just great and so loud!
i believe you must have forgotten to mention lotus E20 and E21 from 2012 and 2013 but how on earth didn't you mention the famous ferrari f2007 & f2008?
I adore the 1996 Rothmans Wiliiams the 2005 Mclaren Mercedes the 2005 BAR Honda the 2015/16 Force India Also the green-yellow of the 2009 Brawn is similar to the 2000 Minardi's color
I was at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix at turn 10, never liked the livery of the Brawn when I first saw it. But got to admit it grown on me over the last decade.
My favourite is the McLaren Mercedes mp4/13. I remember seeing it for the first time and I was blown away. The shape of the nose with those slight diagonal attachement pieces to the front wing, those clean oversized bargeboards and every sponsor fits the colorscheme. It soon became my favourite car ever. A year later after it set the goodwood hill record there was a version with the name Nick instead of West on it. (Refering to Nick Heidfeld) .. but since my name is also Nick, it made my alltime favourite car even more bound to the top of my list.
Yes ! R26 Nr.1 good choice ! Mild Seven was my favourite livery although i also liked the ING with orange and white The Mp4-20 looked badass with very advanced aerodynamics for its time
10. Arrows A2 09. Williams FW14B 08. Jordan 199 (Benson & Hedges) 07. McLaren MP4-13 (West) 06. Ferarri 641 05. Lotus 79 (John Player Special) 04. Lotus 49 (Gold Leaf) 03. Tyrrell 006 02. Eagle Mk1 (T1G) 01. Lotus 72D (John Player Special) Honourable Mentions McLaren MP4-8 (Marlboro) Ferrari 312T3 Lotus 98T (John Player Special) Ferrari 158 (White and Blue) Jordan 191 BAR 001 (The pre-season 555 livery was very nostalgic to me, mostly thanks to the 555 Subaru World Rally Team) Williams FW18 (Rothmans) Ferrari F2004 (Marlboro) McLaren MP4-20 (West) Williams-BMW FW25
One of the best looking car(s) are the ferraris from 2005-2008, the 2005 one because of the nose and because of MS and the 2008 one because of all those winglet that looked awesome and because of felipe massa, i really wished cigarretes company could come back to sponsor, those made some awesome liverys
Here 3 of my favorites 1. Lotus 79 (with Petersons blue and yellow helmet ) the 79 lotus is 1 of the best looking cars of all time, and petersons helmet just make it more iconic 2. Sauber C24 : maybe not as good as i had hoped (villeneuve fan ;) ) but the design looked great and livery improved a lot, And Villeneuve,s helmet just fit with the car (without villeneuve changed his design ) 3. Arrows A3/A4 , nice clean groundeffect cars, and the Beta / Ragno livery looked great :)
Very good video I only missed a 2008 car. I love the 2006 renault too, but the 2008 renault was a bit more underrated. I found the Ebbro Tyrrell p34. 15 1/20 witch has that yellow. But still thank you for your videos. (Does anyone agree with me that the 2019 cars are beautiful?)
I miss cigarette liveries
All those years of seeing those sponsors I never once thought "you know what? I think I'll start smoking to support my team"
Liveries Good, smonking bad
don't smonk
@@CFox_ *S* *M* *O* *N* *K* is my new favorite word!!
Um, A Better Tomorrow (British American Tobacco)
Mission Winnow (Phillip Morris)
I love how you censored the 2014 caterham.
I guess it does look bad enough to be censored to be fair.
Total minger.
You should make top 10 worst looking cars (but you can't use 2014)😂 😂
or 2018, not because their ugly but because im tired of people countlessly saying the halo is tremendous... honestly its not even that bad
What about the 2012 duck nose lol
@@DuGongggg I actually kinda like it.
Ford galaxie Fan club! I think you mean horrendous in that context
or 2012
Unpopular opinion, but I would've put an 2018 car on the list because I just think they look so good with the aero etc. They are also T H I C C
And Halo
TheKestevon No
I think the 17/18 cars are brilliant to look at, especially compared to the 19 cars
Rolexi I like the 2019 Haas tbh
I love the cars with halo, especially red bull and Toro Rosso livery
Take a shot every time he says iconic
That would be a good drinking game
Aldas writing this from the hospital
That would get you pretty drunk. However, to get totally wasted, do a shot every time he says "umm...." Awful narration.
still would end up ahead of william's drivers.
Oh, no. I already played the "massive" drinking game from the McLaren video. Not fooling me twice. ;)
To me the McLaren-Design from 98-01 is the best Design of a F1 car of all time! Especially the years when the Sponsor "West" took the names of the drivers instead of the brand was such a genius move to me its just beautiful, the livery as the shape of the car itself!
I agree, like "Kimi" instead of "West" in 2005.
Those were great with Kimi, Mika or David on the wing and or the sidepod.
I always loved the West livery.
High nose Malboro McLaren in 1996 looked much better.
Mp4/4, 5, 6 & 8. & yes, those West McLarens.
I got to say the Sauber of 2018 was really beautiful and simple designed and I loved watching that alfa Romeo sign
The 1996 Rothmans Williams and 1997 West Mclaren are gorgeous imo
I agree!
For me it’s undoubtedly the McLaren MP4/23 from 2008. As you have already said, the Vodafone era McLaren liveries were absolutely beautiful and for me the double front wing, the nose fin and all those extra aero parts on the rear end, which were so complex and so fascinating for me as a 7 year old. The livery for me is definitely one of the best, if not the best of all time, just the aerodynamics themselves are by a mile and then some the best looking aerodynamics ever for me and Lewis Hamilton’s iconic yellow helmet just rounds it out. I will never forget and always cherish this car, because it is such a big part of my childhood and still to this date it’s simply soooooo beautiful❤️
Not in order, but my favorite are:
MP4-20
F2008
BGP001
RB6
MP4/4
Jordan 191
Many of them definitely are iconic, nice choices
20:23 I agree...for me the Renault R26 from the 2006 season is my favourite, and the most memorable. The colour combination, and the sponsors mesh together nicely. Just like you said, bio grooved tires! Also, this car stood out on the grid. That year had a lot of similar liveries; this one stood out.
Also, in case you didn't know, blue and yellow is the color combination of the Asturias flag, the region of spain in which Alonso was born, so it's even more iconic for spanish people.
@@danygarss and on top of that (yes, Im 2 years too late), yellow was the Renault color and that blue is the France blue, they were so smart they managed to fit the colors to represent both Alonso and Renault, thats crazy isn't it
You should do a top 10 worst liveries (if he hasn’t already)
Good idea my p1 is the 'MAKI F101' from 1974
@@marlon_phoenix thats one ugly car
Watch F1 colours
If you make a "ugliest F1 cars of all time" list, don't forget the Saubers C34 & C35. The only thing they were missing was the IKEA logo
Ligier JS5 (1976). The version with the airbox on top. Looks like somebody decided to put a way too large chimney on the car. It's as if some 5-year old kid designed the car shape and they went along with it. Those Saubers look tasteful next to that monstrosity of a Ligier. Look up the 1976 Ligier-Matra but don't say you haven't been warned. The 2004 "Walrus nose" Williams was no hit either in the looks department. The 1971 March was called the "ironing board" or "tea tray" for its seriously bizarre front wing. The car itself just looks freaky. The 1979 Ensign looks like somebody put steps on the nose on the car or some freaky ladder. Like straight out of a nightmare.
Ugliest of all time?? You haven't seen much. The 2012 cars alone have several uglier cars than those Saubers. I wouldn't put the C34 and C35 Sauber in the top 100 list of ugly F1 cars.
Carlos Spicy Wiener the swedish colors fit when marcus ericsson is driving it lol
@theLundLs C36 bad.
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Interesting choices really enjoyed your vid! It’s hard to think of a top 5 as there are so many beautiful cars but mine would probably be:
1. McLaren-Mercedes from 1997-2005 especially the 2005 variant, one of the cars that just made my childhood its so amazing I love it, with the West cigarette sponsor and all!
2. is probably all Renault’s from the Alonso era especially the 2005 one. What can I say about that except, my favorite driver in such an awesome car!
3. Ferrari in 2016. when it comes to Ferrari, I just love the white touch. And in that year I loved it more than ever! Sure arguably any Ferrari is beautiful, just like you mentioned Michaels 2006 or the f2002 are awesome as well, but the 2016 takes my top spot!
4. the mclaren Honda from ‘88. I think you all already mentioned it so not much to say here :D
5. BMW- Williams from 2001/02. a very overlooked car in my opinion, I just love that livery it had, it was something special in my eyes and deserves to be on this list.
Now as I said, there are so many beauties out there so some honorable mentions would be:
- brawn gp from 2009
- the lotus youve mentioned with the jp special livery
- sauber from 2018
- Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes from 2007
- any Jordan that had a bright yellow color :D
- the Williams you mentioned
- the 2018 Red Bull
- and last but not least the mclaren mcl33 from 2018 especially with Fernando’s special Abu Dhabi livery :‘)
Alright that was quite a long list, if you’re reading this, what is your opinion on my number one (2005 mclaren)? Again enjoyed your vid and sorry for the long comment. Greetings from Germany by the way!
bro the 2017 torro rosso is amazing :((( so underated
nah 2017 Force India
@theLundLs Without but its not a dealbreaker
@theLundLs with shark fin. Those looks brilliant. I just wanna 2018 RB car with their 2017 shark fin
@theLundLs sharkfins definitely!!
"Coffins with a lick of paint"---absolute masterpiece of a statement.
Brabham BT52, the arrow car. Really like the white and blue combination on either version
That car was a monster!
My absolute fav is Ferrari from 2008!
Let me guess....its red
Merry Xmas. The McLaren-Mercedes MP4-20 for me because well... mwoah.
Crystal Racing me to
Maybe it’s just me but I LOVE the 1981 Brabham “Parmalat”
Merry Christmas, dude. For me, I just love the 1977 Tyrell P34. Up until the Gen 2 FE cars it was the closest thing to sci-fi styling on a track. Love it!
Tobacco sponsorships always make the best liveries, in F1, Sports cars, Australian touring cars etc.
Next up.
Iconic helmets.
Also for some reason, I really like the 2018 Sauber car.
I think it's the gigantic Alfa Romeo logo that does it for me.
C37 (Alfa Romeo) is a good livery, but C36 (25 year anniversary) is better.
BRABHAM BT52? You are too young mate.. Most iconic turbo car of all times, driven by the master Nelson Piquet. The Genius of the Turbo Era.
Also the vodaphone mclaren, so good, really got me into f1, just beautiful
Right so I commented like 10 mins in and you keep making good points like this was a great video dude. Loved how you get stuff of Top Gear, I'm the same.
And finally, when's the Q 'n' A out? Looking forward to it
The Yardley brm with its beautifull curves the the way the y shaped 2 colour stripes o the white body, amazing and the 89 ferrari of mansell, stunning lines, totally iconic! Shocked you missed it out!
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My favourite looking car is the 1967 green and yellow type 49 Lotus. I have a huge (22”x38") colour pencil drawing of it by a local artist, I paid £1800 for it and love it so much.
I completley agree that the BrawnGP car looks good, it snares me in with its high-wis greenish yellow but i stay for the comfort of the simple livery as a whole, i would probadly put it in first. I Like the recent Renaults but the 2018 livery is probadly the most intresting on the grid. They painted it in a way that gives it two liveries in one, black and yellow from the sides, yellow and black from the front and thats not just intresting, it looks good and i actually feel that it is the only livery that isnt compromised by its wierd aero since the livery in itself is so wierd and multifacited it accomidates for the wierd and multifacited aero
The 2017 Force India (in season one) I just loved the pink and the nose was just so unique compared to everyone else the barge boards with all the flicks just put a massive smile on my face and then the Singapore update to the shark fin w the little spike things on top of the shark fin and then the pink helmets of checo and Esteban blended so well
My top 10 would be chosen from among the following list including a few testing liveries like the Camo-Bull from last year, the blacked-out honda of 2007, and the navy and yellow Renault of 2007. Other liveries I really like are the Rothman's sponsored Williams of the early 90's, the 2017 Sauber, the Earth Dream Honda from 2007, Kimi's Lotus from 2012 (his helmet design was awesome too), the 2007-08 Renault, 2008 Ferrari, 2010 Ferrari. Lol can you tell the era I started to really enjoy F1?
My favorite is definetly Ferrari F2008 with Massa Helmet. That car is beatiful.
IMO the Brabham BT52 is the best looking F1 car of all time. The livery is pretty good - it's clean, and the Parmalat sponsorship is iconic in its own right - but the design really puts it above and beyond every other F1 car I've ever seen. It looks weaponized, almost like a missile, with the aggressively angled sidepods and swept front wing.
whilst i prefer the JPS lotus 78 i agree it easily trounces most of those included.
In my humble opinion, F1 cars stopped being beautiful with the introduction of the high noses. They have all been ugly since then. If I was to pick a car based on beauty over function, it’d be the Ferrari F92A driven by Jean Alesi. That car was beautiful. Pitty it didn’t drive as well as it looked
I love the 98 Jordan with benson&hedges livery with the wasp nose cone, I love yellow cars but its hard to get right, I dont like the recent Renaults, the mostly white with red, black and gold highlights of the 2004 bar Honda looks clean, the 1983 bmw mostly cause its shape is so different to everything else, the fan car nice paint, phat tyres and.....the fan, im the same with black tyres I love in modern races when theres wheel contact and the paint rubs off, they look so much cooler
I think the 99 Jordan looked better than the 98
The 2006 era cars were some of the best looking cars of all time and they NEED grooved tires, I can’t imagine the 2006 cars without them
The Leyton House March from the late 80's was really nice. Cyan blue and green livery with nice clean lines.
Got to see the John Player Special race around Laguna Seca driven by Mario Andretti.
I hope McLaren do something similar to the 2006 Renault, but with orange and blue for 2019
In my top ten there would be a Benetton livery and one of the Jordan yellow and black with the snake or hornet
The Jordan liveries were great, Eddie knew how to market a car and I think he knew all the photographers would showcase his car for how good it would look in papers.
The Benetton liveries are my favorite, I started watching in 92/93 as a baby and to thia day remember those colorful cars and Michael getting the world's attention in those cars.
The benetton b 194 was a beautiful car as well
I wholeheartedly agree about the ‘06 Renault. I adore that slender, stealthy shape, and the neon blue and yellow... it’s like getting a shot of dopamine every time I look at it.
The 2018 Renault is the best ever f1 livery. It lookes so amazing and the black and yellow Renault Sport colours on it complment the car so much.😍
I’m with you on Renault getting the top spot. I remember as a kid looking at the magazines and my eyes being drawn to it even when the ferraris were in the same picture.
Senna in the McClaren MP4/4 takes the #1 by a long shot for me.
Please do a best sounding car list! I can give my list first: 5. Lutous 98T (the most brutal turbo sound) 4. Renault R26(20000rpm, the best sounding v8) 3. Honda BAR 006 (best sounding Honda engine, sounds like light metal). 2. Ferrari 412T2 (last V12, that downshif sound....) 1. Williams FW26 (I don't need to say anything about it, pure hysteria roar, pure power, pure speed, just like the man who drove it, J Montoya. It just feels....... alive and angry, screaming, roaring, squeezing every little bit of power out of the BMW v10).
I dont Have a Favourite F1 car. Almost every Car is beautiful.
But that 2005-2006 Renault Caught me.
very interesting choices! i personally dont like the high vis yellow of the brawn. perhaps if it was gold, it would looks great. I love the white but the bright yellow is not my thing but hey its yours and i respect that. but i do agree that the cleanliness of the brawn at the beginning of the season was properly good looking. personally i think that brabham bt45 should have been higher, i looked at others on the list and i thought to myself, the brabham looks just a bit better. but this is just me! i respect your choices :)
edit: have a merry christmas!
I also love the late 90's/early 2000's Jordan's. The bright yellow Benson and Hedges livery was just amazing! Especially early in the liveries lifespan!
At every pick I was going "debatable, debatable, debatable." Then the Lotus 97T and I'm like now we are talking. Tho I think the Malboro livery was easily the best for Mclaren. I might be a bit biased tho since my dad was into F1 big time when I was a kid and I watched the races with him every weekend and, being finns, we were absolutely rooting for Häkkinen, which at the start of my following still had the red and white malboro livery and it's seared in to my eyeballs forever. Watching the flying finn absolutely destroy the track in that goergous car. I still think it was the best era of F1 I've seen.
I think the red and black ferraris of the late 80s and early 90s were stunningly beautiful and simple. The darker red and black just compliment each other so well along with "Good Year" written on the tires
I would put Kimi’s Lotus on the list. Gold and black with red touches was magnificent.
The most beautiful F1 car of the modern age the McLaren MP4/27 from 2012 in my opinion. The golden era of F1, my other favourites are the McLaren MP4/4-MP4/8, Ferrari 1979 312t2-1990-1995 Ferrari, ferrari 310b, ferrari f2000, Williams fw14b, Jordan 1991 and the Silver arrows.
Difficult to provide a full top ten list, though I will comment my number one pick: the 1967 Eagle-Weslake T1G. I have always felt the Eagle really epitomizes the 1960s breed of Formula One car to perfection. This car used a dark, almost navy blue with a simple white racing stripe, and featured some of the cleanest aero one will ever see. Add the visibly exposed, powerful, and beautifully sounding Westlake V12 and drivers like Dan Gurney and Richie Ginther behind the wheel, two of the best (though not hugely successful) drivers of the 1960s, one has a proper picture of 1960s Formula One. The Eagle was also very fast, often qualifying on the front row with the Lotus 49s and finishing on the podium whenever it could actually finish a race. The Eagle also won the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix with Gurney behind the wheel. Known as the "All American Victory," never before or since has an American driver with an American car (never mind one of Gurney's own construction) won a Formula One race. This car ticks all of my essential boxes: beautiful and simple livery, clean aero, and it's own slither of relatively unknown Formula One history. Every time I look at the Eagle, I am honestly unknowing of what not to like.
This is probably a conttoversial one but my favourits of all time is the mercedes wo8 from 2017. The car was so sleek and the way hamiltons gold helmet contrasted the silver paintwork and the wide air intake made the car absolutely gorgeous imo.
I think we're opposites: You hate grooves and loves slicks, while I hate slicks and loves grooves (because the grooves are the first thing I saw when I first saw the image of a black-and-white-and-silver Formula 1 car on an Astro View magazine, back when I was 3 in 2004 iirc) but I still respect your tyre taste anyway! Oh, I agree with the Renault RS26. That car also caught my attention atm! 😇
Your voice is amazing, You should have 100 000 subs for me, because you are clever and you know a lot of things from F1 and that is for me why your videos are so amzing to listen.
And my top looking F1 cars:
1. Lotus 79 (John Player and this aero, amazing)
2. Ferrari 641 (great car, John Barnard etc)
3. McLaren MP4/4 (domination and this livery and ofc Senna)
4. Brawn BGP 001 (this lime green and this simple white, its very clean
5. Ferrari 312 T4 (simple: aero and drivers: Schekter and Villeneuve)
6. Williams FW14B (I agree with you)
Merry christmas man loving youre content!!
i think the best looking f1 car is hands down the late 90s McLarens driven by Mika Hakkinen
I have a thing with RedBull RB14 test car, also Renault 2018 is quite nice looking too
Brabham BT52 is one of my favorites.
great video Aldas! different views of the looks of the cars!
2003 BMW williams was also lit
2017 ferrari as well
Nice work man really enjoyed this video
Now you have to make a video about top f1 drivers of all time
The most dominant cars of all time and the most important a 3 series video about raise and fall raise and fall of ferrari i would really love that
You had a really strong list, not gonna lie. I would like to add my honorable mentions if you don't mind.
- The McLaren MP-4/20 (Besides the name, the car looks just too cool)
- The Benetton B186 - It looks so different yet its very appealing
- The Ferrari 312 T2 - Its super simple and a real eye catcher.
But I could not argue with your choices at all, the sport is too beautiful
@Aldas the 1998 Minardi M01 was bathed in "hi-vis yellow", with some blue detail in it.
Great topic! For me the iconic Ferrari is their 1990 car which Prost & Mansell drove. Beautiful distinctive shape with its long sidepods and elegant nose, still blood-red, from an era where it wasn't ruined with too many sponsorship decals. The 2 either side of it (1989 & 1991) were also beautiful, but for me the 1990 is the best ever.
That car is great! This is I think 640 or 641 from hand of John Barnard
Keep it up been watching your channel grow!
The BGP001 reminds me of the Hesketh 308, another white car with minimum sponsors and stripped colors.
Dear aldas! Like your Videos very much, but this is my favorite!
And the Martini Brabham its THE F1 car for me! Greetings from Austria from chris and Thank you very much, your work makes one love F1 even more.
Yep the R25 and R26 is definitely the best, but for me I would say that the Jordan 197, Lotus 79, and the McLaren MP4/14 would be on my list. I love the Benson and Hedges livery of the Jordan and I feel the 197 nailed it with the snake livery design, the 1999 Mclaren simply looks fantastic whatever way you look at it and I personally prefer the West livery to the Vodafone livery, and the Lotus 79, well, just look at it, same reason as you gave for senna's lotus, but then they added a little union jack and the aero on this car just makes it perfect to me.
I would also put the Lotus 78 up with the 79 just due to once again that awesome livery.
Merry Christmas Aldas good video
I'm sorry, the Ferrari 412T2 has to be in, and probably among the 5 first. It is by far the best looking F1 of the mid 90s. In addition to that is the last gp winner V12 engine powered car. And with Jean Alesi on it, a driver that had as inspiration Gilles Villeneuve , we are talking basically about pure racing history.
Absolute no no on the 2012 McLaren, 2009 Brawn GP and 2006 Renault. I absolutely feel you on all the other ones, though!
Your 2009 and 2012 picks were the best looking of their respecive fields, yes. And their liveries were indeed quite good. But my god are they fugly in terms of shape and size.
2006 Renault, while it in general does look good, the nosecone is just weird. Also aerowise the Ferrari and McLaren were better looking imo.
Good list all in all though!
Personally I would have thrown the 2005 McLaren, 2004 Ferrari/Sauber/McLaren, 1994/1995 Williams in the mix, plus some cars I only have a mental image of.
I don't have a specific list, but my favorite car is the BMW Sauber, the colors and the aerodinamics made that car look incredible, but is my opinion. Other car that i like a lot is the MP4/20, amazing car
The Sauber C36 and the Toro Rosso STR12, both from 2017, might be my two favorites. I rather like the shark fins, and the C36 just works, with the black of the shark fin contrasting with the majority dark blue, and the gold of the "25 Years" on the engine cover...it just has me feeling a certain way. The STR12, on the other hand, I think I just like how they went with a livery to differentiate them from Red Bull. And, the Renault RS16 with the testing livery (before they inverted the livery for the season) is probably my third favorite. I don't really know why, because I usually don't like majority-black liveries, but this one just works, with the splashes of yellow on the wings and the turning vanes.
I think the best looking car is the McLaren of around 2001 to 2005 before the chassis went from silver to chrome, when West the barge board sponsor. Also the bronze wheels made it pop The Mclaren of the Hamilton / Button era was ok, and I did like the pop of the red Vodafone logo, but I didn't like black wheels and thought the chrome might have issues with it blinding other drivers with the sun reflection. I am aware of the tradition of the current all orange livery, but its just such a downer when you think back to how the McLaren looked during the Hakkinen to Raikkonen era
Lotus 72 was a masterpiece
my favourite has to be the John Player Special, I got an amazing chance to see the car in the flesh at the Goodwood Festival around 10 years ago. I wasn't just the looks though, the engine sound was just great and so loud!
i believe you must have forgotten to mention lotus E20 and E21 from 2012 and 2013 but how on earth didn't you mention the famous ferrari f2007 & f2008?
Jordan 1997 & 1998, The Snake and the Hornet F1 cars ❤️
I adore the 1996 Rothmans Wiliiams
the 2005 Mclaren Mercedes
the 2005 BAR Honda
the 2015/16 Force India
Also the green-yellow of the 2009 Brawn is similar to the 2000 Minardi's color
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I just LOVE that Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes livery. (Vodafone sponsered Mclaren in 2007.)
I was at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix at turn 10, never liked the livery of the Brawn when I first saw it. But got to admit it grown on me over the last decade.
My favourite is the McLaren Mercedes mp4/13. I remember seeing it for the first time and I was blown away. The shape of the nose with those slight diagonal attachement pieces to the front wing, those clean oversized bargeboards and every sponsor fits the colorscheme. It soon became my favourite car ever. A year later after it set the goodwood hill record there was a version with the name Nick instead of West on it. (Refering to Nick Heidfeld) .. but since my name is also Nick, it made my alltime favourite car even more bound to the top of my list.
Yes !
R26 Nr.1 good choice !
Mild Seven was my favourite livery although i also liked the ING with orange and white
The Mp4-20 looked badass with very advanced aerodynamics for its time
10. Arrows A2
09. Williams FW14B
08. Jordan 199 (Benson & Hedges)
07. McLaren MP4-13 (West)
06. Ferarri 641
05. Lotus 79 (John Player Special)
04. Lotus 49 (Gold Leaf)
03. Tyrrell 006
02. Eagle Mk1 (T1G)
01. Lotus 72D (John Player Special)
Honourable Mentions
McLaren MP4-8 (Marlboro)
Ferrari 312T3
Lotus 98T (John Player Special)
Ferrari 158
(White and Blue)
Jordan 191
BAR 001 (The pre-season 555 livery was very nostalgic to me, mostly thanks to the 555 Subaru World Rally Team)
Williams FW18 (Rothmans)
Ferrari F2004 (Marlboro)
McLaren MP4-20 (West)
Williams-BMW FW25
One of the best looking car(s) are the ferraris from 2005-2008, the 2005 one because of the nose and because of MS and the 2008 one because of all those winglet that looked awesome and because of felipe massa, i really wished cigarretes company could come back to sponsor, those made some awesome liverys
As an American that never watched F1 the F2004 was the first F1 car I fell in love with.
Here 3 of my favorites
1. Lotus 79 (with Petersons blue and yellow helmet ) the 79 lotus is 1 of the best looking cars of all time, and petersons helmet just make it more iconic
2. Sauber C24 : maybe not as good as i had hoped (villeneuve fan ;) ) but the design looked great and livery improved a lot, And Villeneuve,s helmet just fit with the car (without villeneuve changed his design )
3. Arrows A3/A4 , nice clean groundeffect cars, and the Beta / Ragno livery looked great :)
The Menards Indy Cars were always a florescent yellow/orange combo and now Penske is rocking that livery again
Man, I love the Martini color scheme. The very definition of classic
i love how the mclaren mp4/4 looks 🤩😍
Absolutely love the cars from the late 80s into the 90s
Benetton B195 - with Schumacher's original iconic helmet design and the red tipped nose
Cigarette Logos make a Car look cool . and Macho
Rothmans, marlboro, Camel, Lucky Strike, West
1992 Williams is so beautiful and iconic I could marry it! 😍
My second place goes to the all yellow Lotus T100. Gorgeous too!
Very good video I only missed a 2008 car.
I love the 2006 renault too,
but the 2008 renault was a bit more underrated.
I found the Ebbro Tyrrell p34. 15 1/20 witch has that yellow.
But still thank you for your videos.
(Does anyone agree with me that the 2019 cars are beautiful?)
You said unique.. the Braun!!.. looks be it .. but unique would be the 6 wheel Tyrell!!.. enjoyed the vid!!