F1 to test brand-new development during Belgian GP

F1 is to trial a new system of car branding during the Belgian GP to help make it easier for drivers to identify drivers. 

Currently, each team must clearly display the driver's chosen race number, and their name on the car, and allocate a yellow T-camera to one of their drivers so fans can distinguish between the two. 

However, the numbers and names can sometimes be hard to make out given the livery colours, and so for the Spa weekend, F1 is trialling a system where the driver's three-letter name abbreviations will be placed around the onboard T-camera.

The three-letter codes, which will be the same as used on the timing screens, will be present on either side of the camera, and placed on top of the roll-over hoop, meaning any onboard will clearly show the letters.

For every driver on the grid, their three-letter code is simply the first three letters of their surname, meaning Max Verstappen will be 'VER', Lewis Hamilton 'HAM', Lando Norris (NOR) and so on. 

Below, you can check out Aston Martin's vision of the new system, featuring Fernando Alonso (ALO) and Lance Stroll (STR).

The last previous change to F1's identification came in 2017, when the FIA decided to make the driver numbers bigger, with the driver abbreviation identifier required on each car from the Spanish GP, although the lettering requirement was later dropped.