F1’s Gulf racing colours inspire new football kit for British team

Swansea Metropolis Soccer Membership have unveiled their third package for the 2025/26 marketing campaign, that includes the long-lasting Gulf Racing blue-and-orange colors, most just lately seen in F1 with Williams.

The legendary Gulf branding featured on the F1 grid within the 2022 season, with McLaren operating a one-off impressed livery on the Monaco Grand Prix.

Gulf and McLaren labored collectively within the late Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies earlier than collaborating once more within the Nineteen Nineties for the Le Mans 24 Hours.

McLaren have beforehand run the long-lasting Gulf livery within the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours, the place the group completed second.

Extra just lately, Gulf has labored with Williams.

In 2023, Williams ran a Gulf-inspired livery at three occasions – Singapore, Japan and Qatar – after signing Gulf Oil as a key accomplice.

Swansea Metropolis FC will now sport the acquainted Gulf colors for his or her upcoming season within the English Soccer League.

In an announcement on the Swansea Metropolis web site, they wrote: Following on from the success of our commemorative fourth package from the 2023-24 season, when the Gulf emblem featured on the entrance of the Swansea Metropolis shirt celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of our Autoglass Trophy win, the brand new third package options the long-lasting Gulf colors of racing blue and orange.

“The colourful design displays the quite a few well-known Gulf motorsport liveries which have adorned among the biggest racing vehicles in historical past, such because the Ford GT40, Porsche 917 and the McLaren F1 GTR.

“After all, Gulf colors additionally evoke nice recollections for Swans followers as they featured on the entrance of a handful of much-loved residence and away package designs within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, and the Jack Military can quickly get their arms on the most recent model, which launched by membership proprietor and soccer nice, Luka Modric.”