McLaren F1 car in modern McLaren orange
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- 28th September 2012, 23:31 at 11:31 pm #132162Keith CollantineKeymaster
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:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34829627@N03/8034129101/in/photostream
29th September 2012, 0:04 at 12:04 am #211498necrodethmortemParticipantAwful, 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.
29th September 2012, 0:17 at 12:17 am #211499matt90ParticipantI 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.
29th September 2012, 0:34 at 12:34 am #211500MonosodicoParticipantif Perez is coming to McLaren then we will see TELMEX in the car instead of Vodafone… so… is a blue McLaren coming?
29th September 2012, 5:11 at 5:11 am #211501Adam TateParticipantI’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.
29th September 2012, 8:16 at 8:16 am #211502AnalogueSportsCarDriverParticipant29th September 2012, 8:27 at 8:27 am #211503sozaveleParticipantPerez 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.
29th September 2012, 9:05 at 9:05 am #211504ScottieParticipant@sozavele has it not been since 1997?
29th September 2012, 9:09 at 9:09 am #211505Prisoner MonkeysParticipantPerez 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.
29th September 2012, 9:13 at 9:13 am #211506the_sigmanParticipant@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”?)
29th September 2012, 9:17 at 9:17 am #211507sozaveleParticipant@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
29th September 2012, 9:19 at 9:19 am #211508sozaveleParticipantDidn’t McLaren have a yellow test car back in 2006?
29th September 2012, 11:27 at 11:27 am #211509matt90Participant29th September 2012, 12:33 at 12:33 pm #211510RoaldParticipantJust 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?
29th September 2012, 19:14 at 7:14 pm #211511AnonymousInactiveWonderful! Perhaps a bit too dark, but it might be the lighting.
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