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Carlos Sainz Boost while Williams prepares the immediate FW47 update

Carlos Sainz Boost while Williams prepares the immediate FW47 update

Williams is expected to remove the covers from a whole new livery during the launch event of season F1 75 next week in London.

Planetf1.com understands that the teams were prohibited from revealing their permanent deliveries for season F1 2025 until the launch of the official Tuesday season with extravagance at the London O2 Arena.

Williams should unveil a new livery during the launch event of F1 75 London?

This led to the start of McLaren the new MCL39 car in a diagram of orange and black camouflage colors at the Silverstone Shakedown Shakedown on Thursday.

The next day, Williams launched the new FW47 car on the British Grand Prix site while Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon went to the track.

On Friday, Williams promised that the car would be presented in a “unique custom -made livery” in Silverstone.

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However, the eyebrows were noted when the launch FW47 color scheme made it possible to make a striking resemblance with the rear and blue livery used by the team since the start of the 2022 season, with a minor camouflage effect introduced.

With the supposedly supposed special livery with the style of the recent livery of the team’s race, he triggered suggestions that a new color game will be revealed during the launch of the coming season.

It was indicated that Williams’ racing livery for season F1 2025 will be very different from that observed on the launch car of Silverstone, although the positioning of sponsorship logos on the FW47 should not change.

This comes less than a week after the team confirmed the arrival of Atlassian, the Australian software company, as the first sponsor of the team in five years.

Atlassian’s color play is mainly white with blue accents, the same colors observed on the racial combination of Sainz and Albon.

Williams has described the arrangement with Atlassian as “the biggest partnership agreement” in the 48 years of team history, the director of the James Vowles team commenting that the signature “will help free our full potential by improving teamwork and collaboration throughout the organization ”.

In Motor Racing, team title partners often have the power to dictate the car color palette with some of the most recognizable deliveries in the history of F1, the result of the main title sponsorship agreements.

Williams, for example, had previously competed with a white predominance livery with blue and red stripes during the team partnership with Martini between 2014 and 2018.

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During a recent appearance at the Podcast, the former assistant director of the Claire Williams team, the daughter of the legendary founder of the Frank team, revealed that Martini received a furious letter from Ferrari In 2014, the alcohol brand withdrew from an agreement proposed to join Williams.

Williams said Ferrari warned Martini that they would be in the mirrors of the Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen drivers in 2014.

However, Williams then exceeded Ferrari by 104 points this season while the Scuderia suffered its first season without victory since 1993.

She said: “I was really proud to have obtained this contract at the time, because Martini was about to sign an agreement with Ferrari.

“But I think they wanted more than Ferrari was prepared to offer them.

“The Ferrari livery is the Ferrari livery and you cannot really play with it, but at Williams, we gave them the full livery of our racing car.

“We said,” Hey, why don’t you bring Martini scratches incredibly emblematic and stick them to our car? ” Listen, we have prepared here what it might look like-isn’t that going well?

“In the end, most fans agreed that the 2014 livery looked really nice, but Ferrari was annoyed because they thought we had stolen their sponsorship.

“Ferrari even wrote a letter to Martini by saying:” We will see you in our background mirrors next season, because you are now sponsor Williams.

“And then Williams finished third by the manufacturers behind Mercedes and Red Bull Racing, in front of Ferrari, be careful.

“And, yes, of course, it crossed my head:” We did not just torn off the title sponsor under your nose, we fight. “”

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