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Jesus, Mclaren have just wheeled out a 2007 spyker.
Thats the only time this mclaren will look good! ^^^^
(just seen the pics on autosport) #vomit
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tried to get Alonso to describe it as "sexy" he seemed reluctant 🙂 the best he could come up with was it was nice to have some mclaren colours. Looks like the colour scheme was done in a 2D side view, sent off to the paint shop, bit like in old style games where we only had projection mapping and no unwrapper everything looks a bit wonky and badly stretched.
That is a shocking paint job on that McLaren.
They need to flip the colours on the front wing, painting all the complicated bits orange just makes it look busy. Also, throw a sheet over the rest of it so we dont have to look at it 😆
Rather sad when a team like McLaren have as many sponsors as Sauber. So many blank spaces.
Its true but I bet they pay more to sponsor the Mclaren as per RonDon's rate card.
Spyker 2007 vintage
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Was going to suggest Orange Arrows, but that one above is a closer match.
I hope I'm wrong, but it looks underdeveloped compared to the Merc and Ferrari. I really want to see McLaren back at the pointy end of the grid.
Doesn't get any prettier in side view...
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Would love to think that was their test paint job ala:
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Alternatively, they've got to do it properly:
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For me the classic McLaren colours will always be the red and white, but I guess they are making a point about having a clear break from the Ron Dennis era! 🙂
Going out on a limb here....but i quite like the new McLaren colours!
Awaits for the abuse to be thrown this way....
It's a bit half arsed. I think it should be totally orange. The black doesn't really do anything for me.
For me the classic McLaren colours will always be the red and white
Not actually McLaren colours though are they? ..... more like Marlboro?
Correct - but Marlboro was a sponsor all through their heyday, so it's natural that's what they are associated with.
As already pointed out, I don't have a problem with Orange for McLaren - it's just the way they've done it two tone with the black is a bit of a mess.
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As already pointed out, I don't have a problem with Orange for McLaren - it's just the way they've done it two tone with the black is a bit of a mess.
Agree - and it's not even the right orange.
Maybe they've left the black bits for the sponsor logos. So could've been all orange then.
and it's not even the right orange.
Really? That's the best you can come up with? That it's not quite same shade of a colour that a racing team last used about 50 years ago? I'm sure they're going to be devastated by your razor-like insight into marketing and colour palette choice.
Really? That's the best you can come up with? That it's not quite same shade of a colour that a racing team last used about 50 years ago? I'm sure they're going to be devastated by your razor-like insight into marketing and colour palette choice.
Yes!
I do colouring-in for a living so know about these things! 😀
[quote=the-muffin-man ]and it's not even the right orange.
Also agreed - though even the right orange would look a mess two tone with the black.
Of all the colours they could have chosen, the only obvious reason for orange is because of heritage, in which case it should be the right one.
You don't think the colour is to do with Honda's new advertising colours? Strange....
[quote=eddiebaby ]You don't think the colour is to do with Honda's new advertising colours? Strange....
I have no idea - hadn't seen them using orange, and it doesn't appear at all on their website that I can see. What's more, the most obvious Honda logo is on a black bit. Could you point out where orange is linked with Honda for me?
Maybe Andrew Benson is wrong too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39075183 (if indeed the white is the Honda bit, then they're missing out, none of us has even noted the white!)
"! Important information" in orange
So to summarise, only Mercedes have come up with a half decent looking car to date?
...And even that's pretty damned ugly 😆
[quote=Kryton57 ]So to summarise, only Mercedes have come up with a half decent looking car to date?
They've launched two?
The T wing makes it fugly by default, and a shark fin won't exactly improve the looks so that's merc off the "exciting new car" list too.
I'm not surprised the cars are looking as they are, with the new regs, the teams are essentially trying to create an inverted aeroplane, which is never a good place from which to start.
I wouldn't mind if they reverted the regs back to the early/mid 90's personally, they were rather pleasing to the eye back then.
As for the orange and black combo, strikes me that they're using the black to make the car look slimmer than it actually is, but I haven't looked for any dim's, so it might be similar to the Ferrari, which looks really slim to the tail.
I'm not surprised the cars are looking as they are, with the new regs, the teams are essentially trying to create an inverted aeroplane, which is never a good place from which to start.
I'm not sure I understand your point here. Hasn't that always been the case? And why would it be a bad place to start?
I wouldn't mind if they reverted the regs back to the early/mid 90's personally, they were rather pleasing to the eye back then.
That was technology rather than regs, so there's no going back now! Limiting locations and numbers of aero devices would be a good start though
@shermer - more wings and flaps than car, hence more aeroplane than car and trying to make it look like a car becomes difficult, which is essentially how @legend managed to interpret my not very eloquent post.
IIRC, a number of years ago it was decided that the lack of wheel to wheel racing and overtaking was due in most part to aero tech. It just seems to me, in my now occasional glance at the pinnacle of motorsport that they've forgotten that this year.
Surely the scariest thing about that maclaren is the fact they are sponsored by sap, surely that means that they will only ever have 1.5 cars at each race and 200 of the wrong size spanner.
On a serious note the ferrari is not attractive but the maclaren is hideous
IIRC, a number of years ago it was decided that the lack of wheel to wheel racing and overtaking was due in most part to aero tech. It just seems to me, in my now occasional glance at the pinnacle of motorsport that they've forgotten that this year.
I agree! I'm worried that we are going to go back to the dull processional racing that used to bore the crap out of me in the 90s
Ah, the old SAP jokes... 😉
Keen to see how they actually look on screen
Couldn't resist.
The best side of that ferrari is from above as far as i can tell.
Minging, the lot of them. You can build a better looking racing car out of Lego.
Interesting that McLaren have moved away from the MP4/ prefix - by going orange at the same time, I guess they simultaneously tip the hat to one aspect of their history and turn their back on another.
What do we feel about the shade of red Ferrari use? 🙂
Pondo - IIRC the Philip Morris deal was around a few years before Ron took on the team and brought Project 4 into the naming, so the MP4s never raced in orange.
Ferrari have been through a few reds in the past, so I think the tifosi are less anal than mclaren fans... Maybe Ron's influence is bigger than we think 😉
I don't think Williams got the memo about the bargeboards!...
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And Renault seem to be the only ones who've made the sharkfin look a little sexy. The Williams one is dreadful.
Does no one at the FIA have any sense of taste and proportions?
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/02/25/pictures-williams-officially-present-their-new-f1-car/
Sorry, didn't mean to suggest they had - McLarens hadn't been orange for a long time before His Ronness took over. Just thought it was interesting that they've acknowledged their roots but at the same time given the cold shoulder to their most succesful era. I shed no tears for Ron (always thought he was a bit of a tool, although there's no doubting he's been fantastically successful), just thought it noteworthy that they've change to prefix, as Ron did when it became his sho.
that williams looks quite basic (lacking aero) compared to the ferrari & merc.
Yup, either they've run out of money and are saying they're keeping it simple or (let it be so) they've got something they think is worth hiding before the first test