the WORST F1 Team Logos you've ever seen

Oh, this video isn't about VCARB or Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber... why did you think that? I just thought I'd take a look through Formula 1's graphic design history and really appreciate just how bad Team Logos used to be.
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00:00 Diving into the History of Team Logos
04:30 Made an existing logo worse
06:35 Too generic
08:23 Early Microsoft Word-Core
09:50 Honourable Mentions
12:13 the WORST LOGOS OF ALL TIME
13:37 the BEST LOGOS OF ALL TIME

[@DuckSwagington]

Osella is by far the worst of the two. Forti Corse I can understand what they were trying to do, but they just failed the execution. Osella's looks like one of the stickers you find on fruit at the shops.

[@tsb1901]

My first thought when I saw it was it was elongated for use on the car and as it sped by people would see it shrunk down.

[@guruhegde7763]

Osella logo looks like someone is giving you a finger if you squint.

[@fredrickevans5725]

Agreed

[@benben3409]

@@guruhegde7763 Nice

[@ABirdInTheTrees]

The yellow is what truly sends it over the line for me.

[@septor_xy4263]

The rich energy product placement while talking about Haas title sponsors is gold

[@MrVsGarage]

definitely not product placement, I just happened to be holding a can of my favourite refreshing energy drink, Rich Energy, the delicious taste really keeps me motivated!

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

@@MrVsGarage They better have payed you well

[@joribremer5260]

@@MrVsGarage And it’s better than Red Bull right ?

[@largegrainofsand]

@@andresmartinezramos7513This is Rich Energy you’re talking about

[@h.j.m4013]

Osella is worse, its just ugly, the Forti logo could atleast be made based on a drawing from the 4 year old of the team principal

[@MrVsGarage]

I would tell a 4 year old off if they gave me anything that bad

[@aastudio678]

Yes

[@burningSHADOW42]

Mercedes also has a big Wolff

[@MrVsGarage]

10/10 😂😂😂

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Merc might as well have Toto smashing his headphones as a logo

[@027mongo]

When I see the current McLaren logo, I see a kiwi (the bird, not the fruit!). The kiwi was on their logo from the beginning, and was restyled into the Marlboro version. So the swoosh, I would argue, is a logical evolution of the original logo, and the Marlboro version was a sidestep from that process, rather than the origin.

[@BlueEagle]

Osella's logo looks like it belongs on a bunch of bananas and I don't like bananas so I'd say that's the worst

[@MrVsGarage]

I do agree it looks like a fruit company logo but I WILL NOT stand for any banana slander! I love bananas, it's all I eat. 9 bananas a day. My doctor says I have weeks to live

[@TFAmbience]

​@@MrVsGarage 😂😂😂

[@thecompanioncube4211]

McLaren swoosh is classic because it's as simple as Nike swoosh, but more importantly it ties with their road car head lamp design. The balls you have to posses to have your company logo and key vehicle design feature to be the same

[@burningSHADOW42]

The Osella logo reminds me of a hand giving you the middle finger.

[@MrVsGarage]

my girlfriend said it also looks like part of the body but one a bit lower down... 👀

[@michaeljohnston6783]

That Arrows logo is the worst; I at least like how stupidly bad the top two are (Osella definitely worse though). But two fonts, unintelligible graphics art and no sense of symmetry makes Arrows bottom of the pile for me. Also, the Benetton logo you showed has a special place in my F1 heart. So liveriable. Hated the plain light blue they ended up with in the early 00s

[@D_4_N_]

brb buying RB and changing nothing except swapping the logo for the Coloni one

[@MrVsGarage]

PLEASE!!

[@netrocker20]

Osella hands down!

[@MichaelDanger19]

as a graphic designer that got into your channel this week, thanks for uploading an extremely targeted video for me

[@MrVsGarage]

this video was for you and no one else, I specifically told them all not to watch it

[@watster]

Haha! Me too! I've been laughing so hard. The Forti Corse logo wasn't that bad, I think. Not exciting, but simple and clean.

[@lewisrundle2173]

did you not click off at every mention of font and not typeface?

[@Mandarin9900]

9:57 HRT's is worse than Hispania?! Not trying to insult the Wipeout game franchise, but at least in a Wipeout-futuristic-racer-clone, that HRT logo would look great honestly. And I think it's quite interesting in real life as well. Am I the only one who likes it?

[@steveb_]

counter argument... the swoosh of mclarens is originated from the Kiwi head they have had since the beginning in f1. Also if you look closely mclaren still has the kiwi head on their DRS activator, or also on other motorsport series. They always have it hidden somewhere on their cars.

[@h.j.m4013]

5:30 looks like a skin for a character from the game pou

[@chriscuthbertson]

I love the Fondmetal logo.... I think they only changed it a few years ago.

[@lucianov.perdomo5075]

It’s funny the Mclaren logo can be traced back to the Marlboro logo because it looks just like the Newport logo now

[@06racing]

Seeing you like the 2001 Jordan logo... It is a dated early 2000s logo.

[@derkhan2205]

I would like to add Racing Point in the conversation. I don't know if there was anything else to the teamlogo, but always having that strange point on the side on the TV Graphics looked awful.

[@bschneidez]

Speaking of Marlboro... Gotta admit that their logo is fire

[@mr.cheese4635]

call me a psycopath but the Forti logo looks quite good in my opinon. I perfectly captured the 90s. osella though.. goodness me where does one even begin with

[@thecompanioncube4211]

One pass through a ln actual designer and that logo would be infinitely better. The strike in the letter F is too high and the said Italian logo strike is too wide. Italics don't help too much. It is very close to being a bit good logo

[@DNeonLamp]

Thought I'd drop a comment to say I'm going against the crowd on this one. Osella has good design surrounded by bad choices. Forti Corse is just bad, the f is positioned poorly, the colours look like a spread sheet, they can't even make a flag look interesting. People say that at least Forti Corse had a design they were going for, but if you manage to fuck up an f and a flag, you shouldn't get pity points, it's that basic.

[@zephyrod7307]

Mr V’s Garage: “The haas logo looks fantastic!” Haas: adds the most miniscule change conceivable to it Mr V’s Garage: “Garbage! Unuseable Garbage!”

[@GamingEntertainment12]

love it how you just come up with some out-of-the-box video ideas and make it so bloody entertaining Oh and Osella is definitely responsible for a spike in brain tumors between 1980 and 1990

[@infinitesquarez]

God, I miss the days when KZbin didn't measure the success of a channel by watchtime. Like alchemy, the runtime-over-brevity algorithm transforms clicking on an otherwise interesting topic into the feeling of being trapped in a conversation with a pub bore.

[@cassandranugent2443]

I honestly wanna know about the older logos, can we get a part 2?

[@MrVsGarage]

They were much less common which is why I stopped at 1990. It was more common that the team just wrote their name in a normal "business" font

[@andrewdavies3091]

I think the ethos behind good logos is the same as the rules behind good flags. It needs to be clean and simple, visible and recognisable from across a battle ground (or race track) and also easily distinguishable in tiny form.

[@wildmax_playz]

The mad man is back and hes hit a home run ! keep it up big man, your content always brings chuckles and smiles !

[@imrustyokay]

the Eurobrun racing looks like something from the 70s, when everybody was using warm, yet kinda muted colors. Stuff like Brown, Red, Yellow, Orange, Tan, etc. Shame it came from the 1990s. Also, Osella.

[@JCCyC]

Hiya. Do you plan to do another "corner names explained" video? Interlagos would be an excellent candidate.

[@broodjebamibal]

It's always a good day when a new Mr V drops.

[@pepperypeppers2755]

Genuinely think the Osella designer got the dimensions of the patch flipped. 1x3? I thought you said 3x1!!!

[@Codi95]

If you are looking for the best ever. Look at Alta's, it looks like an epic Aston Martin

[@MrVsGarage]

The Batarang?? Yes!!!! amazing logo, sadly I didn't go back far enough for it to count in this

[@vyomrathi]

Sharing this because you deserve so much more recognition!

[@MrVsGarage]

thank you!!

[@neoneviscerator2330]

You missed the fact that the text in the Osella logo literally looks like someone giving you the finger

[@grugruu]

10:29 ANDREA MODA worst of all time to me. I'm not saying it's ugly for an F1 team, I'm saying it would be ugly for a low-end garbage fast fashion brand

[@nathanstroud2223]

I actually always thought the Lotus guitar pick was kinda cool. I always thought of that shape as a guitar pick and somehow never put 2 and 2 together that it was borrowed from THE Lotus logo. The Andrea Moda one wasn't so much a logo as it was a script, but I like it too. EuroBrun looks like if Burger King decided to throw back all the way to their original logo from 1953 that most people today wouldn't even recognize, but still incorporate their current color palette. Osella is like if Edsel had a Formula 1 team. Mr. V's squashed version is basically the Oregon Ducks O, but blockier.

[@Krehnadian]

As a graphic designer, you scratched my itch about the logos from F1, well done!

[@TheEnergeticPanda]

Every video of yours is a banger - that rich energy plug proper made me laugh

[@yerrie1908]

Another great video, Osella was the worst, Forti Corse attempted a ferrari and De Tomaso like emblem as they have on the nose of the car I would love to see a video (lot of work again I think 😬) about drivers incidents and crashes, DNF’s statistics, I think it will have a lot of surprises

[@alvuigi_07]

Osella's logo looks like one of a banana company

[@mcbeaulieu]

The 2006 Williams logo's swoosh was probably meant to be a new take on "F1" 🤔

[@TheRealCharter]

Id love to see a part 2 of this from the 50s to 90s, see if the amount of teams and logos from the past might change or reaffirm your thoughts on these ones. Also Osella has to be the worst. Its definitely the lemon-lime circle that just ruins the whole thing. Why oh why

[@bonelesswatermelon420]

The Osella logo looks like it's flipping the bird on me

[@glassowlie]

I don't know which one came first but the Forti Course logo looks like the 90s RAI logo.

[@Nate34]

This guy is like Ordinary Things but for for motor sports and I love it

[@SB24sx3]

How does that Rich energy drink taste mate

[@MrVsGarage]

it's fine, like watered down red bull

[@thecompanioncube4211]

​@@MrVsGarage I'm surprised you even got the can. Maybe it's readily available in your area.

[@AGXCI91]

Nah let me fix the “Kick sauber” Logo * slaps razer logo *

[@davidt.6992]

The Osella looks like a scrambled egg which I think is worse than forti corse logo which looks like it was made in paint.

[@Degonyte]

Osella's logo makes it look like a low budget supermarket chain, so they get my vote. Also, Early Microsoft Word-core is bang-on because that Arrows logo definitely looks like something I would've put in my 5th grade report on Super Mario.

[@drapermovies]

Forti Corse reminds me of the signs they put up to show you the corners of the T.T. Course.

[@Mr_Tovarish]

Good youtuber makes good youtube video, I watch, I smile, I click the like button

[@serapeach6252]

i think you overlooked that the VR virgin racing logo was meant to look like a race track. i do agree with the "why is there 3 LOGOS on this 1 logo" but yeah idk, i think it deserves at least some points for creativity of blending VR with racetrack map shape font lol

[@CanalAleblasco77]

I do really like the HRT 2012 logo, for me it's just iconic lmao

[@Slimmeyy]

I was really expecting the Kick Sauber logo to be AT LEAST an honorable mention for worst logo.

[@MrVsGarage]

it's fine tbh, just very boring. I think it's actually a decent logo for the streaming site, but looks a bit "childs toy" ish for F1

[@Slimmeyy]

@@MrVsGarage the K itself is fine. It's just the Osella problem: too many unnecessary circles. It's on a black background with a thin neon green outline. If it was just the K with the Sauber text underneath, but scaled up slightly, it's be a perfectly fine logo

[@Der-Martinski]

How can you hate on the virgin and get logo. They literally got a racetrack as logo. How cool is that

[@TheEnergeticPanda]

It's cool in the same way the Sahara desert during midday is cool

[@d1t183]

the most frustrating part about both of the "worst" ones is i feel like with minor modification they'd both be even good

[@chrizz6485]

Does the taste of rich energy matches their pace?

[@brettjames5061]

honestly osella would have been amazing if they removed everything but the text.

[@dudebruh8183]

I like the EuroBrun logo. Definitely stuck in the late 80's but I think it would look cool on the back of a jacket or something.

[@thatbritishmodelguy]

Osella looks like a drink you get in a restaurant on holiday on the med

[@decb]

TIL that the 98-98 Arrows logo was supposed to be 2 arrows in a quiver and not a sticky plaster that taken the scab with it. The Osella logo looks better when on the nose of the car and you're looking towards it. Like the "advertising boards" painted on rugby pitches, it's all about perspective. EuroBrun was a merger of Euro Racing and Brun, so just bunged the 2 logos together. Forti's logo is actually decent, although it does look like an 8 year old made it.

[@0_IQ_Noob]

I dunno man I have a bad feeling that many of these clips with green screen can be a huge meme material ngl

[@freedfg6694]

Haas MoneyGram logo literally looks like Haas has a tumor...which is apropos.

[@Alex58399]

8:15 Arrows, a new subsidiary of Pontins it seems. Or some sort of theme park

[@joribremer5260]

You should do a collab with Tommo to ranking team logo,s ;)

[@andreysab3432]

EUROBRUN is Euroracing + BRUN motorsport

[@Critical_Cabbage]

I very much appreciate the palate cleanser after those mind bogglingly ugly logos.

[@chriscuthbertson]

You killed the Ferrari shield by removing the white from it.

[@MarkNopeJustMark]

...anyone else genuinely like the Fondmetal logo? Just me?

[@nicholasbelardo4273]

I mean... you could say Ferrari still use that logo (the rectangle one), it's the badge on the front of the car since... well forever.

[@martijnkosters9024]

Love that Larrousse logo. If they were a Backpack company.

[@ErickNagaya]

Great video. You gained 1 sub here

[@tomshotton4737]

would love to see your ranking of worst liveries next

[@Panzerairlines]

How, when what why, and how do you get that can? :p

[@MrVsGarage]

just had to ring up my good friend William Storey ;)

[@savageduck4487]

Osella looks like a genuine middle finger

[@FightingForceSoulless]

Forti Corse... is not that bad, my biggest gripe with it is the font and the gray background. The logo itself looks... dated, but understandable. Osella is pure trash though 😂

[@freudsigmund72]

to be honest,... I actually really like the Forti corse logo. It should be on the other end of the scale. the worst logo in my humble opinion is the current McLaren swoosh or maybe the Euro Brun Racing logo.

[@MrVsGarage]

I get the feeling that is a very unpopular McLaren opinion, may god help you in the comments

[@freudsigmund72]

@@MrVsGarage I'm never shy of voiceing my opinions. 🫡

[@friend_or_foe49]

I haven’t watched yet but I stg if Jordan is on here I’m rioting

[@CrashperM]

I kinda don't mind number 7 while it isn't anything special. It's not particularly offensive either. And there is good reason to why they couldn't use the original lotus logo.

[@cubeyblok793]

Osella is worse by far. The Forti one at least looks like a blue race track corner and an Italian flag thingy

[@isaacbragg-gardiner2456]

Wait I like the Forti Corse one... what's the issue?

[@MrSmith717]

You should get together with Tommo F1.

[@MrVsGarage]

Like for a video or in a relationship?

[@MrSmith717]

@@MrVsGarage like a design video thing of course 😅

[@Rentta]

While i agree with you on the worst ones, i do wonder what kind of mushrooms you ate to choose some of the best ones

[@hirisen]

Pretty sure the swooshes in the Williams logo was meant to be "F1." Still a terrible logo tho no doubt

[@superkubus-nk8lb]

Osella looks like banana company logo

[@rbkeyz2328]

Nah theres many worse logos than forti corse. Without the box around and text it would actually be decent for its time

[@lukew6725]

#3 was WAYYYYYY worse than either 2 or 1

[@rhodrage]

I never noticed the people on the F of Force India.

[@MrVsGarage]

you can never unsee it now

[@mylesiswhite4122]

The McLaren swoosh is a kiwi, because Bruce McLaren was kiwi

[@tamsinm]

You don't like Kick's teletext-core logo?

[@petarkostesic8570]

Osella looks like a middle finger to logos :))

[@lukioadogaming7303]

Ricky Gervais

[@rygyd]

great video! id say the worst one is the osella logo 😊

[@man_haver9160]

Hey nice Casio Classic watch

[@benglishman]

Mate that was hilarious 😂

[@CrashperM]

Nice community reference

[@willyum6397]

i dont mind osella

[@usherd369]

Forti Corse but it’s close

[@diamondgaming151]

osella is the absolute worst it's just to stretched

[@MrVsGarage]

maybe... it's not stretched enough?..