2019 Mclaren F1 Team - Renault

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Manoah2u wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:18
I indeed just don't get it. do it all orange and black, or just do something that works. this, just doesn't work.

why is the blue there anyway?
The car hasn’t even hit the track and listen to yourself.

Give it some time in daylight and on a racetrack- maybe it might grow on you? I don’t think the livery competition is particular high this year given that RBR will revert to their same old boring mix, Force India still looks like it belongs on chewing gum and Williams has annoyed half of the F1 technical community.

But given that McLaren have spent the last 9 months in the absolute doldrums, today is about optimism and a new car. Let’s try to embrace that :)

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Such a shame to have supposedly knowledgeable long term members clueless as to why McLaren use blue.
Finally, everyone knows that Red Bull is a joke and Max Verstappen is overrated.

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i'm all for positivity regarding mclaren.
still feeling bummed out we're not having something like this

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imho, the BEST looking livery mclaren has had since Marlboro. And that includes the chrome vodafone livery. which i think would look a lot better again.

as for looking in real life,
yeah it's true, things do look different irl.

the blue of last year had a distinct tone to it IRL that didn't ever got translated well in photos or media.
that same went for the black they had before that.

it reminded me of A1GP cars almost a decade ago. or perhaps we're already there. iirc it was Ireland OR india which had a green that was somehow fluorecsent green AND had a certain chrome green over it. it looked absolutely fantastic IRL imho.
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Mansell89 wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:26
Manoah2u wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:18
I indeed just don't get it. do it all orange and black, or just do something that works. this, just doesn't work.

why is the blue there anyway?
The car hasn’t even hit the track and listen to yourself.

Give it some time in daylight and on a racetrack- maybe it might grow on you? I don’t think the livery competition is particular high this year given that RBR will revert to their same old boring mix, Force India still looks like it belongs on chewing gum and Williams has annoyed half of the F1 technical community.

But given that McLaren have spent the last 9 months in the absolute doldrums, today is about optimism and a new car. Let’s try to embrace that :)
I'm trying to embrace the #journey and I really hope Norris will do well. But as we can only discuss the livery here it's not really strange that people have some problems with it? Anyway let's see monday when we have something real to talk about.

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Any filming day scheduled before the test?
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No Coke on the livery. Any ideas?

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M840TR wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 16:23
No Coke on the livery. Any ideas?
Maybe they did't want to sponsors because of BAT.

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RonDennis wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 16:30
M840TR wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 16:23
No Coke on the livery. Any ideas?
Maybe they did't want to sponsors because of BAT.
Doubt that's it. Maybe we'll see it later.

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Manoah2u wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:18
I indeed just don't get it. do it all orange and black, or just do something that works. this, just doesn't work.

why is the blue there anyway?
They used a orange car with blue accents in the past at Indy. Before last year never used in F1...

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Fernando Alonso could be one of the drivers the McLaren team considers using as a reserve for the 2019 Formula 1 season.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fern ... 9/4337717/

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Manoah2u wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:18
why is the blue there anyway?
Why not? :)

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bauc wrote:
14 Feb 2019, 15:38
Any filming day scheduled before the test?
No word. Just the Barcelona testing then I guess.

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Looks like they're leaving a nice big spot on the side pod for a title sponsor. Look at that big papaya template, enticing some big money company. :mrgreen:
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