Alfa Romeo have embraced the spirit of Valentine's Day by offering the first glimpse of their 2019 car in a heart-themed camouflage livery. Although the former Sauber team's car is not being officially revealed until the opening morning of winter testing on Monday, the Swiss team conducted a filming day at Fiorano in Italy with new signing Kimi Raikkonen. And, to mark the day the car made its track debut, the black and red livery featured images of hearts alongside the famous Alfa Romeo cloverleaf logo. Raikkonen has returned to the team he began his career with in 2001 and is being partnered by Ferrari junior Antonio Giovinazzi at the start of a new era at Hinwil. "We had a good session on track," said Raikkonen. "The car felt good and I was able to get a first impression of the car we will be running this season. We will work on the last few details and head to Barcelona for two weeks of testing. I look forward to getting to know the car better there." McLaren reveal 2019 F1 car Find out more about Sky Sports F1 The start of a new era A year after starting a technical partnership with Sauber, Alfa Romeo have taken over full naming rights at the team with the Italian sportscar brand on the grid for the first time since 1985. Introducing the 2019 F1 cars The F1 Gossip Column Giovinazzi, who competed in two races for the team at the start of 2017, starts his first full season of F1 and is confident the team can build on the strong momentum from last year. "In the team the motivation is very high and even I am very exited, we all are. The car is beautiful and I hope it goes very fast," he told Sky Sports in Italy. "I think the team worked well last year, the evolution was very high, from the first GP in Australia to the last Abu Dhabi we went to fight for the last place to fight for the third or fourth. "We hope to start where we have finished, I know it is a very high goal, but we will do everything we can. I have a very strong team-mate who is Kimi, who has a lot of experience and I can learn a lot from him. We'll see! The team is working very well, me and Kimi are a good pair and the results can certainly be positive." Eight of the ten teams have revealed their new cars. Ferrari's 2019 contender will be launched on Friday, with Sauber scheduled to make their official unveiling on Monday ahead of the start of pre-season testing. Get the dedicated Sky Sports F1 channel - the exclusive home of all live F1 - for £18 a month in HD with no contract. Get Sky Sports F1.<doc-sep>Photos: Red Bull Racing Formula One’s livery reveal season is upon us, and boy are things really starting to heat up. With testing taking place later this month, everyone is scrambling to show off their cool new outfits at the first day of school. But the teams that haven’t given us their first look at new threads might as well pack it up and go home, because Red Bull Racing is undoubtedly the coolest kid in class. Advertisement Haas, Renault, Toro Rosso, Williams—they’ve all had their livery launch parties, getting in on the action before anyone else could show them up. But Red Bull haven’t even officially launched their new car, the RB15—this is just a teaser, if you can actually believe that—and they’ve already proved they know a thing or two about a good looking car. Every team who hasn’t released their 2019 car can go home. Red Bull wins. Thank u, next. This season, they’re donning something Red Bull calls a “Special edition livery... thanks to the arrival of Honda power and an exciting new driver pairing,” according to their website. They’ve done a damn good job. After dropping their relatively sedate blue and purple paint scheme, RBR has opted for an aggressive red and black look. The Red Bull branding is all still there, but it’s stylized in a way that makes it look like the album cover of a punk band. Which is pretty damn cool. Advertisement The words “special edition” give me reason to pause—it’s a pretty vague phrase that could imply this livery isn’t going to be here for a full season. If there’s anything F1 has taught me, it’s never to get excited for a good thing (and yes, I’m looking at you, my beloved Marussia F1 Team). But this livery has me amped. It has me willing to forget all of F1's past transgressions. It has me excited for the race season in a whole new and beautiful way. It is the livery I'm going to mentally project on the Red Bulls all season long. The newly outfitted RB15 will be taking to the track at Silverstone later today. Keep your eyes peeled for all the beautiful shots of this bad boy in action.<doc-sep>Red Bull has offered the first glimpse of its 2019 F1 car, the RB15, in an eye-catching one-off livery. The car was launched in a striking dark blue and red colour scheme which the team confirmed was just for the RB15's first shakedown at Silverstone on Wednesday. A more traditional Red Bull livery is expected for the opening day of testing in Barcelona on Monday. After five years without championship success, Red Bull is switching from Renault power to Honda this year. Honda supplied Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso last year, but in a Red Bull chassis it could have its first shot at a race victory since returning to F1 in 2015. Red Bull has a history of claiming headlines with testing liveries, which are designed not just to create publicity around the launch but also hide some of its less obvious aerodynamic features. However, the press images still show how tightly Red Bull has managed to package its new Honda engine behind the driver. The livery is a one-off for the team's filming day at Silverstone on Wednesday. Red Bull Red Bull finished third in the constructors' championship behind Mercedes and Ferrari last year, but despite the change in engine supplier and the potential disruption that could bring, team boss Christian Horner is confident the team can challenge for victories more often. "Progress is obviously our target," Horner said. "We've sat in the void between Ferrari and Mercedes and the rest of the field for the last two seasons now. We've obviously been able to strike at venues that have suited the characteristics of our car, winning four races last year -- should have been five -- and three races the year before. "So our objective very much is to try and be more consistent across all of the circuits, and hopefully with more horsepower than we had last year will only help to lessen that gap. So our target is very much to put up a more consistent challenge across a whole variance of circuits, rather than just shining and circuits that were power-limited." The car will be driven by Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly this year after Daniel Ricciardo opted to leave the team to join Renault over the winter. "I'm very excited to just get started with the engine," Verstappen said. "I really want to feel how it upshifts, downshifts, how the driveability is, how much power there is. And from there onwards, you just start to work together with the car [to see] what you can improve." The 2019 Red Bull RB15 has a strking new livery. Red Bull "With Honda, we're expecting a lot, we're all very positive but I think it also needs to take a little bit of time, it cannot be from race one it will be perfect. For sure there will be moments where, as a team, we make mistakes or it's not going as we want it to, but I think what is very important is that the team and Honda, we are pushing really hard to improve the development. At the moment, I am of course very optimistic, but also realistic and I think time will tell how we are going to perform." After a year of Honda experience with Toro Rosso last year and a season with Japanese manufacturer in Super Formula in 2017, Gasly is looking forward to continuing the relationship at the senior Red Bull team. "I've had the chance to have spent two years with Honda already, first time in Super Formula, so I went to Japan a lot, spent time in the country to learn the culture to learn the way they communicate, the way they work and it's really different than what we have in Europe so you really need to adapt yourself to the culture and understand how things work there if you want to extract the best from the people," he said. "And for sure this helped me in Toro Rosso as well. "There are a lot of things you need to understand about them, and I had the chance to be there and be in the country to learn this, so for sure, I think on this side, this will help the relation I will have with the engineers. But then after, for sure, we need to give them time as well. Formula One is the pinnacle of motorsport. You fight against teams like Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and when you start a new partnership, it always takes time before things run super smoothly and in the most efficient way. So I think it will take time, but both Red Bull and Honda have the same targets and I'm sure they will manage to achieve what they want."<doc-sep>
1:51 Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll show off the striking new livery of the 2019 Racing Point F1 car. Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll show off the striking new livery of the 2019 Racing Point F1 car. Racing Point have officially launched their new era with the team confident they are now 'in the pink' both on and off track from F1 2019. The team formerly known as Force India revealed a reworked livery and a new title sponsor at their launch event in Canada, the homeland of their new billionaire owner Lawrence Stroll. "It's not a chapter in the history of this team now, it's a new book," said technical director Andrew Green. "With that comes expectation and we're all eager to prove if you give us a little bit more we can do a lot more." What's changing on the Formula 1 2019 cars? Find out more about Sky Sports F1 Team boss Otmar Szafnauer said: "The long-term aim is to take this team to the very top of the sport. We are putting the building blocks in place and it's important we take a good step forward in 2019 as we begin this new era." Racing Point's ambitious plans While Force India were long regarded as the best pound-for-pound team in F1, finishing fourth in the standings in 2016-17, they faced yearly financial strain and eventually slipped into administration last summer before being rescued by a Stroll-led consortium. "In past years we've had financial pressures, but those pressures have been lifted thanks to the consortium and our partners," said Szafnauer. Look at this beauty - our SportPesa Racing Point car! Welcome @SportPesa - now it's time to #MakeItCount! Our 2019 look is here! #WeAreReady #NewEra pic.twitter.com/ZfsyijL42o — SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team (@RacingPointF1) February 13, 2019 "Now we have other pressures and that's to perform at any even higher level than we have before. We've performed well with the resources we have had, but the resources over time will now increase. "We want to be fighting for podiums on merit and aiming for a strong top-four finish in the championship." Sergio Perez, who starts his sixth season at the team, is joined by former Williams driver Lance Stroll, the son of Lawrence. "Our targets are really high," said Perez, the only driver outside the top three teams to record a podium finish last year. "We're aiming for at least fourth this year. I would be very pleased if we can have a couple of podiums as well - and, why not, our first victory together." New name but colours remain The Force India name has disappeared from the grid after a decade, yet 'Racing Point' had initially appeared set to be merely a stop-gap replacement while the Silverstone outfit came up with a completely fresh identity for 2019. However, Racing Point has now stuck. "The name took us a while," admitted Szafnauer. "We started off with Racing Point as our company name and took from then to now to discuss it. We all came to the conclusion that we're a team of racers, there's nothing wrong with Racing Point and it actually encompasses who we are." One aspect of the identity which has carried over from the previous era is the predominantly pink livery which was first introduced in 2017. "The pink in the two years has become iconic," said Szafnauer. Blue has been added to the engine cover and wings for SportPesa, a sports betting company which has signed a 'multi-year deal' to become the team's title partner. Racing Point's actual 2019 car, to be known as the RP19, will be seen for the first time on the opening day of winter testing at Barcelona on Monday. Get the dedicated Sky Sports F1 channel - the exclusive home of all live F1 - for £18 a month in HD with no contract. Get Sky Sports F1.