Selfie with the Alpine team and a more pink car for 2025

In a week, they will step on Sakhir’s asphalt for preseason trials and on March 14 they will go to the Albert Park track for the first day of Australia Grand Prix, the first date of the World Cup. But before, this Tuesday in the cold London where the thermometer barely passed zero degrees, The ten teams first presented their new cars jointly so that Formula 1 He lived a very special night in the year of his 75th anniversary.

Y Franco frankntotothat he was not going to be due to his status as a reserve pilot, he appeared in a selfie of the Alpine team that flooded social networks, along with the ‘headlines’ Pierre Gasly y Jack Doohanthat hours before he had a spicy response at the press conference when they consulted him about the Argentine.

In the O2 Arena Stadium, an enclosure so used for sporting events and musical shows, the 20 pilots became rockstarsespecially Lewis Hamilton, the heptacampeon that was first seen on the public scene with the Red Ferrari monkey. There, where collapint Flavio Briatoreeach team had seven minutes to discover the design of the 2025 car, a year that will be transition from next year’s regulatory changes that promise to start a new era in the category.

The first to go on stage was the team that ended the 2024 championship and astonished: Sauber. The team that added its only four points in the last race of the season (the eighth place of Nico Hulkenberg in Abu Dhabi) appealed to the LED lights and a video on the giant screen to impact with a much greener design than black in its New model, predominantly in the nose.

Then, it was the turn of the former team of Argentino Colapinto, Williamswho prioritized the blue in his book of this year and in which Carlos Sainzhis new pilot, was one of the sensations of the night, monopolizing an ovation of the public that filled the stadium despite the high price of tickets (50, 75 and 100 pounds). “A new era starts,” he said James Vowlesthe head of the English team.

Undoubtedsurely in tribute to Honda, which will stop motoring to the structure at the end of the year. Another that put white to his car was Haas, who will have a new pair with Esteban Ocon y Oliver Bearman. Although the one who surprised the most was Ferrariwhere your main sponsor He gained greater prominence on the front and rear ailerons and behind the Cockpit, with its blue and white logo. “I want to fulfill my dream of being world champion. I want to make history with Hamilton,” said Charles Leclerc, who acknowledged that he saw the design for the first time in London.

Ferrarithe only team in being present during the 75 years of history of F1, was the penultimate to be presented, just among Mercedes -which returned to the silver in the nose of his new car, despite maintaining black and green- and McLaren, That in addition to showing the car that will seek to revalidate the title of builders, he tribute to the other cars with which he was champion when putting them on stage. Nor was the memory of Enzo Ferrari, one of the most important men for the category.

It was not, however, a party for everyone. “Cheer up Max, it could have been worse, we didn’t sit next to George Russell.”the event driver told him, the British comedian Jack Whitehalla Verstappen at the beginning of the evening. The current tetracampeón of the world responded with a smile at that time and with silence later, when he took the stage next to Liam Lawsonhis new teammate after the departure of Sergio Pérez, in the last seconds of the presentation of the New-Viejo Red Bull (its design almost had no changes).

Like the Dutch, Fernando Alonso was critical of this event in the previous one and did not hide it on the red carpet. “Surely for sponsors it is a good event because they have a great event, but somehow we all want to present the car privately and here we will only see the aesthetics. It is a good initiative but it can surely be improved,” he valued in ESPN . Then, he appealed to his charisma on stage by saying that Aston Martin, with a brilliant green tone and a presentation to the best agent style 007, was “the cutest car of the night.”

And Alpine? The car that aspires to drive sooner rather than this season Collapinto left fans perplexed because it gave five of the seven minutes to a DJ until the rose and blue car made its appearance with Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan. The Argentine, meanwhile, lived it behind the scenes: although it was believed that it would not attend, it appeared in a selfie dressed in the pink monkey next to the starting pilots and the reserves.