F1 2024 car launch dates

[ajprice]

Dates are being announced for 2024 launches...

Team	Date	Launch type	Location	F1 news link
Ferrari	Tuesday February 13th		TBC	Ferrari
Sauber	Monday February 5th		London	Williams & Sauber
Williams	Monday February 5th		New York	Williams & Sauber
Alpha Tauri	February 8th	Livery	Las Vegas	Alpha Tauri
Alpine	Wednesday February 7th		TBC	Mercedes & Alpine
Aston Martin	Monday February 12th		Silverstone	Aston Martin
HAAS	Friday February 2nd
Mclaren	Wednesday February 14th			McLaren
Mercedes	Wednesday February 14th		Silverstone	Mercedes & Alpine
Red Bull	Thursday February 15th		TBC	Red Bull

Updated from Still Mulling's post. Copy and update this whenever you get confirmed dates .

Edited by ajprice on Wednesday 24th January 17:34

Edited by ajprice on Thursday 1st February 06:32

[Jasandjules]

I read that the Red Bull failed the crash test, anyone know if that is true? Might delay their launch if so.

[Still Mulling]

ajprice said:

Dates are being announced for 2024 launches...

Ferrari
Williams & Sauber
Aston Martin

Team	Date	Launch type
Ferrari	February 13th 2024
Sauber	February 5th 2024
Williams	February 5th 2024
Alpha Tauri
Alpine
Aston Martin	February 12th 2024
HAAS
Mclaren
Mercedes
Red Bull

Copy and update this whenever you get confirmed dates .

[Mark-C]

Jasandjules said:

I read that the Red Bull failed the crash test, anyone know if that is true? Might delay their launch if so.

Front wing failure. They failed last year as well first time ... didn't seem to cause them any issues!

[IanUAE]

won't teams just put this years livery on the "2024" launch cars which are actually the 2023 cars anyway? This way they don't reveal any aero / car design secrets.

So failing any mandatory tests won't effect the official car launch.

[rev-erend]

I would imagine it's common to fail the crash test. They design it as light as possible then add material and weight to the fail area.

I have a local team and they failed last year and again this year, I'm not saying how I know this

[spikyone]

IanUAE said:

won't teams just put this years livery on the "2024" launch cars which are actually the 2023 cars anyway? This way they don't reveal any aero / car design secrets.

So failing any mandatory tests won't effect the official car launch.

Only if they're doing a "livery launch". Generally the cars teams show at their launch are early iterations of the car they'll run for the season. If there's anything that they feel is a big innovation they might keep it under wraps - either not visible in the images they release or replaced with a generic, simplified version. It's usually the case for the bigger teams that they'll sit a car on a stage and then release some 3D renders rather than actual photos of the car.

There's a great YouTube channel called Kyle.engineers that's run by a former Mercedes aerodynamicist from their title winning years. For the past few years he's done videos on most of the launch cars analysing what they're trying to do with their aero packages.

Of course, the car failing a crash test will have no bearing on the launch anyway: the cars on a stage don't have to pass scrutineering!

[TikTak]

Willing to bet no one does anything particularly interesting, unfortunately.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Since Sauber are apparently going with a black and green livery this year, I thought I'd have a stab at predicting the other teams:

Red Bull - black and carbon fibre with some matte dark blue.

Mercedes - black and carbon fibre

McLaren - black and carbon fibre with some orange

Aston Martin - black and carbon fibre with some metallic green

Ferrari - black and carbon fibre with some red

Alpine - black and carbon fibre with some light blue

Williams - black and carbon fibre with some metallic blue

Alpha Tauri - black and carbon fibre with some white and dark blue

Haas - black and carbon fibre

[Gazzas86]

Mercedes confirmed on FB this morning to reveal on 14.02.24,
Wouldnt let me copy the table to update it. sorry

[DaveTheRave87]

Am I the only one who thinks it would be better if F1 booked an arena and all the teams did their car launch in the same place at the same time?

[Still Mulling]

Team	Date	Launch type	Location	F1 news link
Ferrari	Tuesday February 13th		TBC	Ferrari
Sauber	Monday February 5th		London	Williams & Sauber
Williams	Monday February 5th		New York	Williams & Sauber
Alpha Tauri
Alpine	Wednesday February 7th		TBC	Mercedes & Alpine
Aston Martin	Monday February 12th		Silverstone	Aston Martin
HAAS
Mclaren
Mercedes	Wednesday February 14th		Silverstone	Mercedes & Alpine
Red Bull	Thursday February 15th		TBC	Red Bull

[budgie smuggler]

Mclaren have just revealed their 2024 livery on Twitter. Nowt new.

[ajprice]

Thanks for the table Still Mulling, I've updated the first post

[realjv]

Real 2024 McLaren MCL38 coming on a very busy 14th Feb apparently.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mclaren-f1-car-...

Given that all the launches are going to be crowded one on top of the other I suspect this is why McLaren went early with their livery launch today. Eyeballs and column inches all to themselves and they'll get a second crack with the real car later.

[GlobalRacer]

It's all a PR exercise anyway. If anyone has come up with something out of the ordinary they aren't going to reveal it at a car launch and it's generally the 2nd test before they actually start showing the "real" car.

Suppose it keeps the salivating fans happy. God knows how they would have coped in the days when it was weeks between every bit of news.

[Mark-C]

DaveTheRave87 said:

Am I the only one who thinks it would be better if F1 booked an arena and all the teams did their car launch in the same place at the same time?

I think that arena is Sakhir and the date is 21st Feb ... anything brie then is unlikely to be the whole package

[kambites]

Mark-C said:

DaveTheRave87 said:

Am I the only one who thinks it would be better if F1 booked an arena and all the teams did their car launch in the same place at the same time?

I think that arena is Sakhir and the date is 21st Feb ... anything brie then is unlikely to be the whole package

The whole concept of a "car launch" is just a way to get some people looking at the sponsors' logos before the season starts.

[Still Mulling]

ajprice said:

Thanks for the table Still Mulling, I've updated the first post

[Sandpit Steve]

Mark-C said:

DaveTheRave87 said:

Am I the only one who thinks it would be better if F1 booked an arena and all the teams did their car launch in the same place at the same time?

I think that arena is Sakhir and the date is 21st Feb ... anything brie then is unlikely to be the whole package

Yup! Anything before the qualifying session for the first race, is simply marketing and giving the sponsors airtime. Even the pre-season testing in recent years has seen manufacturers keep things back, testing the mechanicals but leaving the aero stuff as an early iteration for correlation purposes.