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McLaren F1 car in modern McLaren orange (16 posts)

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Keith Collantine said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Good news for fans of McLaren F1 cars in the team’s historic orange colour – they’ve got one on display at the Paris Motor Show.

At first glance I’d say it’s a 2010 MP4-25 without an F-duct. It’s not the same shade as they’re run their cars in more recently – this matches the MP4-12C Spider you can see in the foreground in one of the pictures:

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necrodethmortem said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Awful, an assault on my eyes. I love the old McLaren orange/yellow though.

I wonder whether they’ll change back to white and red, now that they have to pay for the Merc engines.

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matt90 said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

I think that red and white would be a poor choice. they couldn’t do it as in the past, otherwise the association would be with Marlboro rather than Vodafone, ad any other red/white combination has the potential to look bad, like Toyota.

I don’t mind that shade of orange on a road car quite so much, but it looks awful on an F1 car.

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Monosodico said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

if Perez is coming to McLaren then we will see TELMEX in the car instead of Vodafone… so… is a blue McLaren coming?

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Adam Tate said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

I’d love the classic McLaren orange livery to return, but this metallic take of it presented on the cars at Paris is a bit too loud.

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10-Tenths Gentleman Driver said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

I just wish that we could see the real McLaren orange livery on a modern F1 car!!! I’m talking about Bruce McLaren’s Papaya orange race colour…. see attached photo of the lovely M14A

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sozavele said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Perez is no longer a pay driver according to Whitmarsh, so that tells me that Telmex will be on the car but not the title sponser, which means no change of liver, maybe a little but nothing drastic, I however would like it if Telmex were the title sponser I should a revised McLaren livery with some pale blue would be nice since they have had virtually the same liver since 2007.

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Scottie said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

@sozavele has it not been since 1997?

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Prisoner Monkeys said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Perez might not be a pay driver, but that does not mean that Telmex/Claro/America Movil cannot become title sponsor, especially given the uncertainty over Vodafone’s future with the team.

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the_sigman said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

@formula-1
I think Whitmarsh said it because many people when Perez went to Sauber that he was a pay driver. Now that everyone recognises his talent, he isn’t going to McLaren to give them money.

What I mean? I believe that a pay driver is someone that has a seat in a team, he takes it because of money. (eg: Alonso has more money from sponsors than Petrov, but who is the ”paydriver”?)

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sozavele said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

@scottie I know McLaren has had a greyish silver livery for a long time but wasn’t it around 2006/2007 when the red replaced the black. This is the article I read http://www.newsonf1.co.uk/2012/news/Sep/article_Perez_no_longer_a_pay_driver_Whitmarsh.html

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sozavele said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Didn’t McLaren have a yellow test car back in 2006?

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matt90 said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

No, would have been McLaren orange.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&authuser=0&biw=1517&bih=741&tbm=isch&tbnid=3okWIB0HelCu_M:&imgrefurl=http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D1%26t%3D9404%26start%3D45&docid=AB5E7Gb12SD6JM&imgurl=http://www.grandprix.com/jpeg/misc/mp421-lg.jpg&w=640&h=427&ei=A9tmUOXACfGR0QWeoIGACg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=723&vpy=151&dur=13&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=148&ty=85&sig=109870645094049551642&page=1&tbnh=126&tbnw=170&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:80

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Roald said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Just wondering, in the picture of the 2006 test cars, what kind of tyres are they running on? Slicks with a single groove in the middle?

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Fixy said 7 months, 3 weeks ago:

Wonderful! Perhaps a bit too dark, but it might be the lighting.

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