Brawn, Lotus, McLaren and more: 7 Retro F1 liveries to recreate in F1 2021

7 Retro F1 Liveries to Recreate in F1 2021

F1 2021
Feb 14, 2022 2 Min Read Posted by Luca
BRAWN We all love the iconic Brawn F1 car livery which Jenson Button took to the 2009 driver's championship. To recreate, you will need the Boundary livery which is made up of three colours. To apply them in the right order, you start with the black by turning Luminance to 0. Next up is the white which is Luminance 240. Hue and saturation aren't important when you're making black and white. For the yellow, though, set Hue 38, Saturation 240 and Luminance 120. LOTUS Lotus has two iconic set of colours, there's the black and gold we associate with their late seventies and eighties cars, but they also sported a green and yellow look, which is what we are going with. Select the livery named Next Gen, and the first two sets of colours we will make green with Hue 80, Saturation 240 and Luminance 47. Then the next two colours will make up the yellow part of the livery, which are Hue 40, Saturation 240 and Luminace 120. GULF MCLAREN So many people love this iconic blue and orange colour scheme that has been donned by several cars over the years, and McLaren brought it back at Monaco last year, where Lando Norris took it to a podium finish. Select the livery titled Gecko, the first colour will be the blue which is Hue 134, Saturation 113 and Luminance 162. Then the other two colours will make up the orange on the car, which is Hue 15, Saturation 240 and Luminance 114. BWT Many racing fans love the Aston Martin green, who doesn't? But its arrival came with a bit of sadness as the amazing pink colour that the team's sponsor BWT brought to the livery under the team's previous guises no longer made up the majority of the car. They've become the title sponsor of Alpine, which will probably mean more pink but it's unlikely to be the dominant colour over the typical Alpine blue. If you miss a fully bright pink F1 car on the grid, bring it back by equipping the Sidesaddle livery and making the first two colours Hue 220, Saturation 240 and Luminance 168. Then for the other colour, make it the blue of the BWT logo with Hue 159, Saturation 240 and Luminance 64. RENAULT Like pink, another colour we are currently missing on the F1 grid is yellow. When Renault transitioned to Alpine for 2021, they became yet another blue team. So if you miss this amazing colour as well, you can select the Steamline livery and set the first two colours to Hue 40, Saturation 240 and Luminance 120. Then to get the black in there, easy enough! Luminance 0. VODAFONE MCLAREN If people liked the Gulf McLaren livery, they absolutely loved the chrome and red Vodafone McLaren livery that the team ran from 2007 to 2013. Whilst many of the liveries listed here can be interchangeable, the one you use here is important as the base is infact white (Luminance: 240) but on the livery used here which is called Nightshade, it comes across as chrome. That's the first of the three colours, the other two will be red which is Hue 0, Saturation 240 and Luminance 120. OVERTAKE Did you really expect us to pass up the opportunity? Yes, it's an OverTake themed livery, we are shameless. Nevertheless, if you select the livery with the name Colour Code, you get four colours and they are as follows. First one you apply is the black, again easy enough with Luminance 0 and the same with the one immediately after it which is white Luminance 240. Next two are our iconic orange and teal, with the orange being Hue 6, Saturation 240, Luminance 144 and the teal being Hue 110, Saturation 240 and Luminance 118.

Formula One car launches are well underway, and with it come some exciting new liveries. If you want to make some of your own on the F1 game that resemble iconic colour schemes of the past, here are seven we reckon you will like.

Image credit: EA / Codemasters

Starting in F1 2019, Codemasters added in a spec F1 car to use in multiplayer races, which you could customise with a bunch of preset liveries. They then expanded upon that on F1 2020 with the My Team career mode where players could pick the spec car, hire a teammate and compete as the eleventh team on the grid.

Another new addition with F1 2020, was the system by which you could earn and purchase liveries that you could then customise. They added in the Podium Pass which featured not just liveries but also helmets, driver suits and gloves, which you can change the colour of so you can add a personal touch.

The Podium Pass as of late has seen a few liveries created by personalities from both the world of Formula One and gaming content creation. Though you couldn’t change the colour schemes of those liveries to add your own personal flair to them.

Icons of Past Eras

So have you ever wanted to try matching a few iconic liveries from over the years? If you’re on PC, you can probably make your own through a mod. But for console players, that is unfortunately impossible so you have to get as close to resembling one as possible. So without any further ado, here are seven you can recreate right now on F1 2021.

Which of these liveries will you be using? Tell us on Twitter at @OverTake_gg or in the comments down below!

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