Comments on: Is this Force India’s 2009 livery?

By: Coder48

Coder48 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:51 +0000

It is concerned with the size of organisms, more particularly with the size of our own corporeal selves. ,

By: chill

chill — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:55:11 +0000

ain’t the shark fin engine covers banned for 2009?

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:58:48 +0000

Well put. There’s a whole lot of Kingfisher on F1 sites at the moment. I remember pictures of Minardi’s and the Minardi name only started appearing flat out on the net when the team were in the process of being sold to Red Bull. About time a back-of-the-grid team got some exposure in media. God knows the big boys get enough.

They’ve also killed two birds with one stone. They’ve got their brand splashed all over the net, and I bet they’ve gained several new fans from the fairer sex in the process!

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:58:10 +0000

To be fair, they did gain over a second on the opposition last year. It was only because the grid compressed by about half-a-second that they weren’t midfield. Still, in objective stopwatch terms, they did improve more than any other team.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:54:38 +0000

Not only is it not real, the lines on the car look to me like the VJM01 is the basis.

Sadly for Force India fans such as myself, this does not constitute a sneak preview of the new car. I imagine playing with the colour palette for the car liveries must have been fun, though…

Also, I cannot recall anyone’s F1 calender making quite this much fuss before. Which shows that this is a very good marketing move for Force India, whether Pitpass likes it or not!

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:38:05 +0000

There is an article on formula1.com about the calendar:
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/1/8839.html

Apparently Mallya feels that Force India is “Widely billed as the most improved team on the grid during the 2008 racing season”. Reeeeeeeeeeeally now?

In his defense, Force India wasn’t last. They improved so much that they finished ahead of … Super Aguri.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:46:55 +0000

Well it would certainly enhance my F1 viewing pleasure if we got to see a few more drivers sans shirts
Although maybe the two (three?) Sebs and Kazu could be excused from those duties.

AS for the car & colour scheme, I’ll have to go back for a second look as I was too distracted by Fisi’s pecs to look at it properly.

*later*
It does look a bit CGI & not real. It’s growing on me though, and it is nice to see some green that is not featured on the-team-formerly-known-as-Honda’s pants….

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:42:53 +0000

I hear Ron Dennis is hiring

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:24:22 +0000

How quickly I forget…

Rubbish though Jaguar were I always liked their green colour, though.

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:15:36 +0000

Keith, I think (it was a while back) there used to be a team called “Honda F1″. They may have had some green on their car at some stage. If my memory serves me correctly.

The car is a CG mock-up. ’09 spec front wing with an ’08 spec rear wing. That spells “interim” to me, though I think it’d be silly to put out a calendar with the car in different colours to it’s racing livery. People have to turn the page only once every month, and it’s going to look pretty silly come April or May if it’s an interim livery.

While Fisi looks a bit silly, and Sutil very nearly manages to look worse (is that Brillo?!), I think it’s great to see FI-f1 actively marketing themselves. It shows (in a small way, obviously) that Mallya is serious about his team and F1. Anyone recall a MidlandF1 calendar, complete with driver’s photo~~shop~~shoot?