JOURNAL

A racing livery is the complete visual identity worn by a race car. Before sponsor-led designs took over, colour could identify a car’s nationality. Today the same surface carries team identity, partners, numbers and graphics, all shaped around the body underneath.

A partnership with the league we already race in, rather than one we bought into.

The cars of this era are remembered for how they looked. Most of what made them look that way was written into the rulebook before anyone drew a line.

Most explanations of livery design start with colour. Colour is close to the last decision made, and by then a surprising amount of the car has already been spoken for.

Two colours at full saturation, only 1.89:1 apart in brightness, held apart by a broken white line. How the 787B's scheme is built, and why it still reads 35 years on.