Audi brings Peranakan heritage to Marina Bay. Blue takes on the floodlights. Singapore gets a livery with a local pulse.
Audi Revolut F1 Team has revealed a special design for the Singapore Grand Prix, giving its R26 a Peranakan-inspired look for the city’s night race. The familiar Titanium Silver Grey remains, but a Singapore-specific blue effect shifts the car’s appearance under the circuit lights.
Traditional Peranakan motifs feature across the sidepods and rear wing, while the design also carries onto the race suits of Nico Hülkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto. It is a visual nod to Singapore’s cultural heritage, built for a setting where reflections, colour and movement define the trackside view. More than a change of paint, the one-off livery puts local identity in the frame of modern Formula One.
Audi’s Peranakan-inspired livery meets the Singapore night
The R26’s standard silver base gives the special finish a clear link to the team’s identity. A blue sheen adds another layer, catching and shifting with the lighting around Marina Bay rather than replacing the underlying colour scheme. That contrast should make the car read differently from one floodlit section to the next.
Peranakan patterns bring the cultural influence into sharper focus. Their placement on the sidepods and rear wing gives the motifs space to follow the car’s contours, linking decorative heritage with the visual language of racing. For fans at the circuit, the result is designed to register both in close-up and at speed.
How the Audi R26 livery uses colour and pattern
Colour does practical work here as well as visual work. Marina Bay’s floodlights create a different viewing environment from a daytime circuit, and the blue effect is intended to respond to those changing reflections. That gives the silver bodywork a night-time character without losing the team’s recognisable base.
The motifs also follow the areas where the car’s shape draws the eye: the sidepods and rear wing. Those surfaces frame the design in motion, so the pattern becomes part of the car’s presence rather than a static graphic. Audi has extended the look to its drivers’ suits, carrying the same idea from the machine into the team’s trackside image.
For a closer look at the team and its latest updates, visit F1 News. The details matter: a livery can signal a team’s identity, but a location-specific design also gives the host city a visible role in the weekend’s motorsport story.
What Audi’s Singapore design adds to the Grand Prix weekend
Singapore marks the team’s first night race in Formula One, making Marina Bay a natural stage for a livery built around light and reflection. The design acknowledges that context while giving local heritage more than a passing mention. It places Peranakan influence directly on the cars and suits that fans will see across the weekend.
For Hülkenberg and Bortoleto, the special appearance offers a distinct setting for their first laps in this version of the R26. Track performance will still decide the weekend’s competitive story, but the one-off design gives Audi a clear visual signature at one of the calendar’s most recognisable street races.
The livery’s strongest point is its balance: Audi retains a familiar base while giving Singapore’s cultural identity a prominent place on the car. More team coverage is available at LAS Motorsport, where the focus stays on the details behind Formula One’s biggest stories.
