This is Ferrari’s red ‘n’ white livery for the Las Vegas GP

This, folks, is Ferrari’s special red and white livery for this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix. And judging by the renders it actually looks pretty sharp. Looks better than its one-off Monza livery, we reckon.

It’s 41 years since F1 last raced in Vegas, when the Caesars Palace Grand Prix was last held on a makeshift track in the hotel’s car park (sorry, parking lot). Unsurprisingly it wasn’t a popular venue, joining the calendar in 1981 and promptly being kicked off it again a year later.

Anyway, Ferrari’s thinking is that having enjoyed a bit of success in US races of yore in the Seventies (yep, a completely different decade), it’s time to rewind the clock back to the days of Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, Carlos Reutemann and Gilles Villeneuve.

So what we end up with is this entirely red and white design - as its cars tended to be back then - with the colour theme extending to Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz’s race suits and helmets too.

If ever there was a week for a red and black, roulette wheel-based livery, surely this was it? Then again, Ferrari isn’t exactly riding a wave of good fortune at the moment: Leclerc ended the last race in the tyre barrier on the warm up lap, asking his team “Why am I so unlucky?”