Ferrari's new yellow overalls...

[Sodemo]

I think we might see a yellow and white Ferrari soon to appease Shell and Malboro...

http://images.f1racing.net/large/59768.jpg

[luke]

From a distance it reminds me of the old CART Target Chip Ganassi livery lol....it does look cool in my opinion...

[Bononi]

Yeah, pretty cool, those stars... are they seven ?

[SALEEN S7R]

Hmm, doesent look bad at all IMO. Nice to see something other than red and white from Ferrari for once.

[Skam85]

Love Schumi's helecopter pilot sunglasses!

[Raglanparade]

Looks nice... but why Yellow ?

[andy97]

Yellow is a traditional Ferrari colour (Giallo?) and I belive that Marlboro Mclarens ran in the M23/ M26 era in Yellow and white "Marlboro Lights " livery.

[Bononi]

Exactly, Yellow is the traditional color for Ferrari.

[ASCII Man]

Yup, yellow = Ferrari, red = Italy.

[Hazard]

Although their traditional F1 colour is scarlet - far more what I'd prefer to see than yellow F1 cars. Put some yellow on a Ferrari, it'd look too much like the '93 BMS cars (maybe bring back memories for Badoer though!)

http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/bad...hungary-93.jpg

[R59]

The best looking ferrari road car ever (in my opinion) was the 246Dino, and it looked better than ever in factory Yellow (called daytona yellow by some).

That's why the Ferrari badge is yellow, with the prancing horse.

And to be picky - Ferrari's haven't raced in Italian Racing Red for many years. The true colour is more of a blood red, much darker. I seem to remember the last one's in the "real" colour were back in the Berger/Alesi era, unless someone wishes to correct me.

The current more flourescent red is a sop to Phillip Morris, and Marlboro' - look at the old Marlboro McLarens of years gone by for the same colour.

The McLaren's ran in the traditional McLaren orange. A colour which has been used on the car as recently as the 2006 launch - before they decided to go down the "chrome" route.

While we're at it - national racing colours of years gone by... who'll help me out here:

British Green (deep brunswick green)
Dutch Orange
Belgium Yellow
French Pale Blue
Italy Red (Rosso Corsa)
Japan White with red sun
Germany White (were white until 1934 when to save weight, they polished the aluminium, and didn't paint them!!)
America was originally red, but they didn't take to it, and the Italians adopted it. Finished up with white with blue underframe

Ahhh, just found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._racing_colors

Monaco and Mexico have the same colours, except the colours of the numbers would be different!

Back to Michaels Overalls, at least they don't look like a Hawaiian Shirt!!
I think they're pretty smart. Manufacturers like Stand21 and Alpine Stars have produced some really fancy designs, and the other's are catching up..

Rob.

[Dutton]

I think 1997 was the break? Perhaps '96 had shifted actually, but 1997 took it to another, rather hideous, level (which has been moved back from).

Regarding the overalls:

Originally Posted by Michael Schumacher

The new race suit? It’s just for fun, an idea that came to me at the Madonna di Campiglio event this winter. It brings a bit more colour!

http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4417/757.html

[maltafan]

I think that the colour is nice, but it does not look so good on a man. Would be a nice outfit for a female driver, though.

[marzF1rocks]

Hey, there pretty cool. Distinctive...

Lets hope they don't change the car colour. Ferrari just wouldn't be the same without the red

[kipper]

Originally Posted by Dutton

I think 1997 was the break?

Yes. The last Ferrari to run the scarlet was the 1996 car, with the change to an orangey-red in 1997 to coincide with the adoption of Marlboro title sponsorship.

[Knowlesy]

Oh dear, Michael needs home decorating tips. The paint goes on the wall, not down your front!

Seriously, this is quite cool. Everyone is going mad at monaco, helmet swaps, outrageous overalls etc......

[marcel82]

I wonder how people would react if they sat across the track from the pits, waiting for an all red TGF to show up, and suddenly this yellow/red character starts waving at them (would they recognize from that distance)

[Bononi]

I guess Monaco is the top event of the season, no wonder they all look like hollywood stars.

[StickShift]

AFAIK only Schumacher has a yellow racing suit. Neither Massa nor the Ferrari mechanics are wearing them.

Edit: In fact, there are seven stars, and further in fact, the suit has 'SCHUMI' written in large letters on the back. I suspect that this is just Schumacher's love of gaudy fashion sneaking into his day job.

[Bononi]

So there's the main star of the show !

[Notso Swift]

Originally Posted by Bononi

Exactly, Yellow is the traditional color for Ferrari.

My understanding is that it is the non works race cars that were yellow.

Yes. The last Ferrari to run the scarlet was the 1996 car, with the change to an orangey-red in 1997 to coincide with the adoption of Marlboro title sponsorship.

I seem to remember at first thay made some statement that it was due to market research and what showed up best on TV, and the 100 million or so

[ASCII Man]

Originally Posted by Notso Swift

My understanding is that it is the non works race cars that were yellow.

The only non-works Ferrari F1 racecars that I can remember in yellow were Ferrari's entered by a Belgian team/driver back in the 60's, and thus coloured in the Belgian national colours.

The red is the national colour of Italy, every Italian manufacturer racing in F1 has used it, from Maserati to Alfa Romeo to Ferrari.
Yellow really is the official colour of Ferrari, it's just that they still used the corsa rosso 'till 1997 purely for traditional reasons.

On the suit, even my 4 year old niece could come up with a better design than that!

[Notso Swift]

I wasn't specifically referring to F1, thinking more of Sportscars

Indeed, in the early days (pre the "modern F1" 1950+) you HAD to race in your national colours

[Gerben24]

For a moment there I thought they were already preparing for the Alliance sponsorship...

I think the overalls are absolutely hideous.

[Down F0rce]

It looks pretty cool. It could just be a Monaco one-off though, like Red Bull's Superman livery for this year.

*edit* Schumi is the only one wearing these overalls. Even Massa is in his usual outfit...