Looking forward to what they come up with. It will need to be something that stands out. This years chrome and black didn't stand out well at all. If they whack some red on it again it will work.
Manoah2u wrote:Well, Mclaren originally ran papaya orange,
they ran white-red, they ran white-yellow,
they ran grey-black-red
they ran silver-black-red
they ran silver
despite the fact there has been more non-colors than actual colours,
there's still the general truth that Mclaren themselves don't genuinly have a 'color'.
Ferrari is red and allways will be red.
Obviously, for marketing's sake, Mclaren will prefer to be recognisable on tv and in the crowd.
Mclaren didn't particularly like HRT's color and Sauber's colors in the past as they themselves stated
they sometimes get 'confused' with these teams. As hard as i found that to believe (it shocked me) -
it was in an interview and iirc Whitmarsh replied to a BBC interview - I'll take their words for it.
That means then that Mclaren would prefer to be easily spotted. I'd say the past years grey-silver was
very simple solution. However, with Mercedes now running the greyish colour, an untrained eye can
have trouble seeing the difference between a merc and a mclaren.
This leads me to believe Mclaren will be eyeing a livery change in the not-too-distant future, perhaps
as early as 2015 since the change from Mercedes engines to Honda engines will bring a good start for
more then just engine change.
Now is white really a Honda colour? If we look at the earthdreams livery, then clearly it's not. the White
in the Honda team before was due to the BAR Tobacco brand colours.
Mclaren in the 80's and early 90's was white-red because of the Marlboro sponsorship, and it was easily
recognisable.
Would Mclaren go in 2015 for a white livery? Who knows, but they run the risk of getting confused with Williams
now. Blue runs the risk of RedBull confusion. Keeping gray (perhaps they can't even use it anymore due to Merc
contract issues, who knows) doesnt seem like a parmount given anymore either. Red? Never. Yellow is too remiscent
of Renault.
I'd say we could actually have a greater chance of seeing Orange Mclarens in 2015 then any of the former years.
And the colour of the teamwear doesn't mean a thing, they can wear total whites and still have an orange car,
just as they can have an all white car and all orange teamwear.
This does look cool though
http://www.f1colours.com/wp-content/upl ... retina.jpg
Orange Mclarens just look awesome
http://www.pitpass.com/images/galleries ... 4_s099.jpg
http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/sport/ ... laren4.jpg
but still, anything goes.
http://i.imgur.com/Sy4AgwV.jpg
http://www.f1colours.com/wp-content/upl ... 00x142.jpg
http://s2.postimg.org/5g13xahbt/MAC_WALL_copie.jpg
http://s28.postimg.org/q27f07hh9/MP430_2.png
how about a GULF Mclaren Honda Livery?
http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/ ... very_5.jpg
We'll see.
I just think it'd be better if we finally gotten something to know about the 2015 Drivers.
