Who's Who?
Easily Tell the F1 Drivers Apart!
Identify a Formula1 Driver at a Glance! 
Helmets are not always easy to distinguish, except at close-up takes.
Below there's a good tip for you to know who's who, within the same team, even when all the TV image displays is a car looming at the end of a long straight.
Every F1 car carries an onboard camera located right on top of the main rollover structure, near the air intake that is above the driver's head. The onboard cameras must be of a different color, so as to help distinguish between a team’s two cars:
| Car # |
Red onboard camera |
Car # |
Black onboard camera |
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Teams: |
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1
3
5
7
9
11
14
16
18
20
22 |
Fernando Alonso
Kimi Räikkönen
Michael Schumacher
Ralf Schumacher
Mark Webber
Rubens Barrichello
David Coulthard
Nick Heidfeld
Tiago Monteiro
Vintantonio Liuzzi
Takuma Sato |
2
4
6
8
10
12
15
17
19
21
23 |
Giancarlo Fisichella
Pedro de la Rosa [Montoya]
Felipe Massa
Jarno Trulli
Nico Rosberg
Jenson Button
Christian Klien
Robert Kubica [Villeneuve]
Christian Albers
Scott Speed
Sakon Yamamoto [Montagny|Ide] |
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Renault
McLaren
Ferrari
Toyota
Williams
Honda
RedBull
BMWSauber
MF1
ToroRosso
SuperAguri |
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According to the F1 regulation, the camera support is red, on the first car, and black, on the second car (the camera's original color). Additionally, when a Team runs a third car, the camera is to be yellow.
Click on the respective year, to see (on-line) the 2005 & 2004 drivers' onboard camera colors.
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