The JPS association was somewhat diluted when Lotus were told to get rid of the gold. They changed it to a sort of matte gold but works similar n tv.Manoah2u wrote:1)Lotus runs a john player special livery without being a JPS connection, and they get away with it no problemo.astracrazy wrote:I'm 99% sure they will not go back to the old white-orange design. It was related to Marlboro because they were the sponsor
1) its subliminal tobacco advertising i.e look at the barcode on the ferrari. So I highly doubt it would be allowed.
2) its free advertisement for marlboro essentially given them title sponsorship livery for free - and who would do that?
The Ferrari has a prominent subliminal logo on the side of their car, it's essentially half the Marlboro logo. They run a Marlboro red-color instead of real ferrari red. The white patches on the wings are another factor in that.
2) It's not free sponsorship for Marlboro if there is a smart construction which has Marlboro sponsoring Mclaren indirectly without Mclaren being able to be tied to any accusation of running tobacco advertising. It's been stated in another topic.
[ Marlboro could demand Honda to demand Mclaren to run a white-red livery, and if they do they'll get money. Honda meanwhile 'occasionaly' funds Mclaren a certain amount of money [ which turns out to be the same Marlboro sends to Honda] It might not happen, but it is a possibility.
I don't think Vodafone red can be said to be anywhere near orange. I think people are getting a bit mixed up between the historic orange or papaya orange of McLaren, and the red of Marlboro. McLaren also have rocket red which was traditionally the colour of the McLaren logo mostly on the car.