Ferrari will drive the Las Vegas Grand Prix in a special livery! It is meant to be a reminder of F1’s ancient history

Ferrari will drive in the Las Vegas Grand Prix in a special livery! The Italian team from Maranello wants to pay tribute to its part of American history in Formula 1, so the car will feature white elements. Do you like it?

Formula 1 has only two races left on its schedule this season – the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

And it’s in the upcoming one that Ferrari fans will see a special livery. It’s a tribute to a part of its American Formula One history. On the monopost, we will find quite distinctive white elements, which should remind us of times long gone.

As you can see in the attached post below, the white elements appear on the side panels, rear wing, front wing and also as a background for the driver numbers.

Of course, Ferrari has also modified the colouring of its drivers’ overalls. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will also drive in this colour combination.

The Italian stable already has experience with this colour combination, having driven the entire season in 2016. The driver pairing then was Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen. However, it wasn’t a very successful year.

Ferrari finished as high as third in the Constructors’ Cup, far behind Mercedes and Red Bull. Moreover, it didn’t win a single race. Similarly this year, although yes, Ferrari did score one win thanks to Sainz. And that was in the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ferrari is remembering the old days…

The Maranello-based stable had white paint on their cars, especially in the 1970s, when Niki Lauda triumphed twice in the final drivers’ championship standings. After 1978, however, the team abandoned the use of white, although it briefly returned to it in 1993.

That year, Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger drove for Ferrari. However, the monoposto at the time was nowhere near as competitive as the factory had imagined. After an ignominious fourth-place finish in the Constructors’ Cup, they returned to an all-red livery for the 1994 season.

But Ferrari also recalls great triumphs on American circuits, just from the 1970s. Lauda won at Watkins Glen in 1975, Clay Regazzoni won at Long Beach a year later for a change.

Carlos Reutemann triumphed at Watkins Glen in 1978. And finally – the great success and double that Gilles Villeneuve scored in the 1979 season when he won both the Watkins Glen race and Long Beach.

Source: F1, Autosport