F1® 23 - Patch 1.17 Discussion Thread

@LordPhoenix-TH66 It will depend if McLaren have expressed their desire to have it added or not. All the liveries used by F1 teams are their intellectual property. So No one can use them under their express permission. All the F1 teams have a working relationship with Codemasters. Some engage with Codemasters more than others: Max is sponsored by EA this year and that’s why theirs lots of Max related stuff in the game. Ferrari on the other hand are very precious when it comes to their intellectual property. Extreme OCD levels. They are extremely demanding when it comes to using their stuff. But they can be it’s Ferrari. Everyone wants to be friends with Ferrari. Especially developers of racing games.

You want to see how precious they are with a quick test. The F1 teams name is Scuderia Ferrari…. Scuderia is Italian for stable. A word that isn’t anything special. It is no more special in Italy as it just means stable in any language. Ferrari don’t own the rights to it. But start a my team career and try and type in Scuderia as your teams name. You can’t. Because Ferrari being Ferrari have obviously told Codemasters only their team can use the word. So when you see any changes related to Ferrari in the game. It’s because it’s what Ferrari wants. And what Ferrari wants they get