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I'm wondering if both Hamilton and Rosberg are planning to wear yellow helmets this year. If they do, how are we supposed to tell who is who? It was never an issue before as their teammates always had different helmets.

T-Cam colour. One will be orange and the other yellow.

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Hamilton will be the one in-front.

Or behind.

Which driver will have which then ?

Rosberg will have orange. Hamilton yellow.

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Rosberg will have yellow. As he has done for the past 3 years

Driver with the lower number gets orange. Rosberg had the higher number in 10/11/12. For 13 he has 9. Hamilton has 10.

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Cheers.

From the images I've seen of both drivers it's 'easy' to tell them apart as Nico has a chrome Merc sign in the middle of the black monster band, whether this is the case on the goggle box is another matter, at the circuit it'll be absolutely no help whatsoever, that's a fact!!

I will keep this pic open during the race.For reference

Looking at that picture I think I am going to get a little confused at the start of the season especially as drivers sit so low in their cars & you can usually only see the top part of their helmet. You do get used to the slight differences, though, as the season goes on & I hope this is the case at Mercedes & Laura, you're right, sometimes it is only the different colour of the onboard camera that shows you which driver is which but, I sometimes forget to look at that

Corrected for you

Also anyone want to place bets how many times the commentators make mistakes or wait that bit longer to say "Lewis/Nico" while they figure out who the driver is.

Helmets are too similar.

Remember the old days when you could actually make out the numbers on the cars because they bigger than a postage stamp?

Yes that would be good and useful if they went back to great big number on the side

From the side it will be easy.

High cockpit sides may put paid to that, especially when they are going 150+ MPH.

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the one tweeting between corners should be hamilton...

On TV at least, you can't miss Nico's neon yellow gloves.

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this will confuse massa on who to block for alonso

I'm not big on the rules but why aren't teams allowed to use different liveries for each car. As long as the livery is actually connected to the teams.

It gets me thinking about BAR's car a few years ago. They wanted one car in 777 sponsorship and the other in red stripe.

If you think about it other teams could easily do this...

Ferrari: One car being their normal red livery and one being Ferrari yellow livery
Red Bull: One being normal red bull livery the other being Red Bull Lite (light blue) livery
Mclaren: One being their current Silver dash of red/orange livery and the other in the rocket red/orange livery (victory t-shirts)
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I could go on a mention something like this for each team but I can't understand why teams are not allowed to do this.

It's a nice idea and one I'd like to see. But one problem with it would be the amount of bodywork parts they would have to take to each race ... Nearly twice a much to cover both cars ( that is just a guess mind to the amount )

It has happened in the past.

Keke Rosberg drove a Marlboro Lights Mclaren in the 1986 Estoril GP.
It was the only time it happen 'cos it was deemed that it looked like the colours where washed out & had faded in the sun!

I don't know if the FIA is against this, but I think the sponsors themselves would not like this. They paid the teams for their brand to be advertised on two cars, not just one, and a different livery may end up compromising this a bit.

It'll be easy when they've broken down after a couple of laps there will be no problem to see which is which.

I hate to write this from a was loyal supporter of Mercedes to a supporter with no confidence in the team at all, if they couldn't make it with Schumacher after 3 years I have given up on them.

I genuinely hope I'm wrong because I would love to see them start winning.

^ Well look at it this way....

If Hamilton does well (Wins races/Gets podiums) then all the Schumi lovers will claim that Hamilton has a better car this year & Schumi couldnt win because his car was poor.
If Hamilton does very poor everyone will say Schumi was a better driver & could do better.

In either case, I think Hamiltons gonna get a lot of flak for Schumi fans.

It was 555 and Lucky Strike.

They wanted to run:



When told they weren't allowed, they ran this monstrosity on both cars:

That all blue 555 livery was stunning. Would have been one of the best of the modern era if it had stuck.

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Yeah I wish they'd just gone with that one. It was so iconic with the Subaru WRC cars .

Thank you gentlemen. Especially speedster_sid - that picture will be a great help!

Lewis has black gloves this season, Nico has yellow.

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Williams used side pod numbers lastyear

They also had next to no sponsorship.........!!

It's going to be really difficult telling them apart next season!

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Lewis has brown eyes, Nico has blue eyes

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so you are saying that Massa won't block one of them? and just let him pass?

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Looks very confusing...

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its obvious whats going on here - nobody dare tell em , one of you needs to use a different helmet design - i wonder who's got the job

er nikki beings your the new team member- we have a tiny job for ya

It should be really easy, Hamilton's car will be full of "swagger" and Nico's will be wearing a tiara...

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