Race teams love special-edition liveries for individual races, particularly people who honor the situation of the race, and Cadillac’s F1 team isn’t any different. First we had the special shakedown paint, and now we’re getting a one-off livery for the American team’s first home race, this coming weekend’s Miami Grand Prix. There’s only one problem: This special, one-off, celebratory livery type of sucks.
To be clear, it is a advantageous enough livery. It’s principally Cadillac’s standard graphics package, made symmetrical and with the ghostly Cadillac crest on the rear replaced with a stars-and-stripes motif which have a gradient effect. Sure, you are celebrating the great ol’ U.S. of A., advantageous. The issue is that, as a special edition livery, it barely stands out from Cadillac’s normal wear. And as a Miami livery, it honors a city known for shiny colours and vigorous residents with… more banal monochrome. It’s a very good livery, but a nasty special one, and a really terrible graphics scheme for Miami.
What about that is Miami?
Yes, the Miami paint job has a subtle red-and-blue star motif on the underside of the rear wing. That is technically some amount of relevant color, I confess, and greater than what the Cadillac cars normally have. But compare it to the Trackhouse Aprilia team from MotoGP, which did its entire bikes up in a United States flag print when the series visited Texas, and the Caddy livery just starts to look boring. It isn’t a low-effort livery by any means, some designer clearly put work into making all the weather work together, but they put that work into something so subtle that you just’d be forgiven for not even realizing this was a special livery.
If Cadillac ran this livery all 12 months long, I’d haven’t any issue with it (beyond the plain jingoism of the celebs and bars), but it surely really doesn’t give the wow factor that I would like from a graphics package that is meant to be special. It’s Miami, go all-out! Give us shiny shades, neon hues, something interesting to take a look at! You are only going to run this livery once, so do something interesting!
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