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Question of the Week: how would *you* launch a new season’s Formula One cars?

F1's red carpet bash got, er, mixed reviews. So come on armchair experts, tell 'em how it should be done

Published: 24 Feb 2025

Last week saw the first red carpet event of the 2025 Formula One season - a big, glitzy, arena-based reveal of this year's shiny new cars (read: liveries). And it was largely met with... mixed reviews. So, how’d you do it?

Here’s a suggestion: what about firing the cars out of a cannon with a slew of confetti giving chase and a great big memory foam mattress for them to land on? May as well paint a dart board on top and get Luke Littler to play the gunner. 

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Or how about sending the cars through Blackwall Tunnel and into a synchronised drift around the O2? Because let’s face it: last week’s reveal would’ve been more exciting if Alonso did just that in the AMR25. Probably because he’d have stopped halfway through to wonder why his teammate was in a cloud of smoke outside Costa. 

Over to you then, readers. Let us know how you’d go about revealing a new season’s Formula One cars, and expect the most creative ideas to feature in Friday’s result post. This one should be fun.

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