McLaren 2015 livery

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Orange. It simply has to be orange. McLaren chose the colour to stand out on the new colour televisions when they first started racing, so that's their colour they should race in. Seeing as the car has no sponsors at the moment, it makes it an even more obvious choice to run.

Yes red and white would be nice, but they aren't sponsored by Marlboro so wouldn't really make sense. Yes Honda built the engine, but they clearly don't seem to be much bothered by branding because all they have is a small "Powered by Honda" sticker on the engine cover.

If Bruce McLaren raced in orange, they should do. It's just Ron Dennis being an arse. The team really needs to go back to its roots to find some sort of identity after being called cold and heartless all these years.
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Why are so many obsessed with orange?

In terms of brand recognition, Mclaren have been monochrome since 1997. Their HQ building is monochrome, the uniforms are monochrome , etc etc. The logo is red, not orange.

As for heritage, their racing colours are:

1966 & 67 - Green & White (2 years)
1968-71 Orange (3 years)
1971-1997 - Red & White (16 years)
1997-2015 - Variants of monochrome (18 years)

ps IMHO orange doesn't look good on TV or real life. It's belongs to that era of avocado kitchens & bathrooms that is best left in history.

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wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:Mclaren ran the red-white scheme for decades, you can't guarantee squad.
And now Ferrari runs a Marlboro-sponsored Red livery.
which doesn't look in any way like the old marlboro-mclaren liveries, in any way.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:Nobody confused a Mclaren for a Ferrari and vise versa.
Probably because the liveries were nothing alike, plus the actual brand was visible and there wasn't much need for this subconscious messaging and relation to a F1 team
So you just admit that you're just talking rubbish and senseless?
Indeed, there is nothing alike then, nor is there anything alike now.

so your flawed argument on brand confusion of mclaren and ferrari gets shattered to pieces by yourself, too. good.
because it held no water from the start.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote: Even a half-eyed half-blind would see a clear-cut difference between this:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4113/5016 ... 52a9a0.jpg

and this:

http://www.motivemagazine.com/emAlbum/a ... ns-001.jpg
Can't remember saying those looked alike.
Yes you did, you implied the red-white colours automatically confuse with ferrari. you can look up your own posts just a couple threads back.
wesley123 wrote:
Like said, flip the colors around and you'll notice the similarities. Make the red on the engine cover black and you'll already notice how it follows a pretty similar line.
#-o

yes, let's flip colours, lets forget the vast amount of white, let's turn the red black, and the white red, and yes, it looks like a ferrari. Newsflash; the red will not be black nor will the all-white be red. that's why its white-red, not red-black.
are you colourblind or just inventing stuff to keep breathing life into your failed theory?

nobody spoke of a black-red livery for mclaren. nobody spoke of a carbon copy of a ferrari livery.
there are vast examples of livery excersizes of white-red mclarens, and you try to maintain an unsupported theory on a single photoshop that 'slightly' resembles a rear line that ferrari since last year put on their car in black carbon?

don't act like you have not seen the other liveries here, like this one;

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yes, i can see how much this looks like a ferrari. i can't tell the brand recognition apart. it's a ferrari. or is it a redbull? what is it? #-o
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:seriously, how you can even remotely think a official honda red-white colour, and heritage MCLAREN red-white
gets confused with Ferrari is beyond any reason.
Because of brand recognition. Also it's not really Heritage McLaren, seeing how virtually ALL Marlboro sponsored teams of that time ran that chevron livery

https://bandverde.files.wordpress.com/2 ... ipaldi.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6057/5893 ... c4ce_z.jpg
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ ... 6d0136.jpg

Why people call it a McLaren heritage livery, I don't know.
Then you are beyond ignorant in every single sense of the word.
It's a Mclaren heritage livery because Mclaren ran it for 22 years in F1. Ferrari did not, Lotus did not, williams did not,
Tyrell did not. That's why it's a Mclaren heritage livery.

the fact Penske ran the same colours does not change what it meant for Mclaren.

Nobody confuses Penske for Mclaren, despite they have the same colours. Neither did Penske get confused with MClaren livery for another team that ran white-red.

You even know what heritage means? a yellow camel-lotus is a heritage livery. Lotus is running a JPS heritage livery. Williams before the Martini livery ran a rothmans heritage livery. Williams is now running a martini livery, despite classicly the martini livery was a brabham heritage livery. Still, nobody confuses Williams with brabham.

Lotus also used to run a Green-yellow livery. That was their original brand colour. Green-yellow. Nobody thought Lotus wasn't lotus when they ran yellow camel liveries, gold leaf lotus liveries or JPS liveries.

Meanwhile, Mclaren's original colour was papaya orange, but MClaren still gets recognised as mclaren in a red-white livery, a silvery west livery, a chrome-red vodafone livery, and whatever they'll run next.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:the only reason they went for silver was because they changed to West as a sponsor, guess what colours west ran?
Actually, West can either be bordeaux red or silver. The grey was more of a Mercedes thing than a West thing.

let me correct that false statement for you.

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yes, keep being stubborn and ignorant.

no, there's nothing 'west' about mclaren's test livery #-o :roll:

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nothing at all. not even slightly. #-o


i'll add something more for you

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oh look, that marlboro chevron was not in any way branded to Mclaren, right?
Guess what happened when Mclaren turned west? see what happened there?

With your logic, Mclaren's logo gets confused with Nike. Nike F1 team.
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Richard wrote:Why are so many obsessed with orange?

In terms of brand recognition, Mclaren have been monochrome since 1997. Their HQ building is monochrome, the uniforms are monochrome , etc etc. The logo is red, not orange.

As for heritage, their racing colours are:

1966 & 67 - Green & White (2 years)
1968-71 Orange (3 years)
1971-1997 - Red & White (16 years) > that's 26 years ;)
1997-2015 - Variants of monochrome (18 years)

ps IMHO orange doesn't look good on TV or real life. It's belongs to that era of avocado kitchens & bathrooms that is best left in history.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"

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Manoah2u wrote:
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:Mclaren ran the red-white scheme for decades, you can't guarantee squad.
And now Ferrari runs a Marlboro-sponsored Red livery.
which doesn't look in any way like the old marlboro-mclaren liveries, in any way.
Didn't say it did.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:Nobody confused a Mclaren for a Ferrari and vise versa.
Probably because the liveries were nothing alike, plus the actual brand was visible and there wasn't much need for this subconscious messaging and relation to a F1 team
So you just admit that you're just talking rubbish and senseless?
Indeed, there is nothing alike then, nor is there anything alike now.
Actually, they are much alike, like I have said multiple times already.

And you bringing up old liveries has got nothing to do with the mock-up of McLarens livery, nor with Ferrari's livery.
so your flawed argument on brand confusion of mclaren and ferrari gets shattered to pieces by yourself, too. good.
because it held no water from the start.
Not really.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote: Even a half-eyed half-blind would see a clear-cut difference between this:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4113/5016 ... 52a9a0.jpg

and this:

http://www.motivemagazine.com/emAlbum/a ... ns-001.jpg
Can't remember saying those looked alike.
Yes you did, you implied the red-white colours automatically confuse with ferrari. you can look up your own posts just a couple threads back.
Context is a great thing.
wesley123 wrote:
Like said, flip the colors around and you'll notice the similarities. Make the red on the engine cover black and you'll already notice how it follows a pretty similar line.
#-o

yes, let's flip colours, lets forget the vast amount of white, let's turn the red black, and the white red, and yes, it looks like a ferrari. Newsflash; the red will not be black nor will the all-white be red. that's why its white-red, not red-black.
are you colourblind or just inventing stuff to keep breathing life into your failed theory?
That's how brand recognition works.

A livery is much more than just a few colors picked, certainly in a shape like Ferrari's livery, where it is dictated by Marlboro.

The chevron shape on the engine cover looks very, very similar to each other. They also follow a very similar line horizontally over the sidepod.

The black on the lower side of the tub looks very similar.

Oh, and the black stripe that split the red from the black? Also very similar to the stripe Ferrari uses to split the red from the black.

don't act like you have not seen the other liveries here, like this one;

http://hondaintegra.co.uk/wp-content/up ... claren.jpg
I never said anything about that livery to begin with.
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:seriously, how you can even remotely think a official honda red-white colour, and heritage MCLAREN red-white
gets confused with Ferrari is beyond any reason.
Because of brand recognition. Also it's not really Heritage McLaren, seeing how virtually ALL Marlboro sponsored teams of that time ran that chevron livery

https://bandverde.files.wordpress.com/2 ... ipaldi.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6057/5893 ... c4ce_z.jpg
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ ... 6d0136.jpg

Why people call it a McLaren heritage livery, I don't know.
Then you are beyond ignorant in every single sense of the word. [/quote]

Not sure how this makes me ignorant? But seeing how you bring it up, you might want to do a bit of self-reflection? I'm not the one that claims that every red/black/white livery looks alike, you are the one, because I explained the similarities between the McLAren mock-up and Ferrari's livery.

You the proceed to call me colorblind and what not, because I took a look a look further than just a color.

I'm sorry, but if someone is ignorant here, it is you.
It's a Mclaren heritage livery because Mclaren ran it for 22 years in F1. Ferrari did not, Lotus did not, williams did not,
Tyrell did not. That's why it's a Mclaren heritage livery.

the fact Penske ran the same colours does not change what it meant for Mclaren.
Actually, yes it does, seeing how they ran the same livery. Actually, pretty much all Marlboro sponsored teams ran the chevron livery.

It's a Marlboro heritage livery, not a McLaren heritage livery.
Nobody confuses Penske for Mclaren, despite they have the same colours. Neither did Penske get confused with MClaren livery for another team that ran white-red.
Probably because they are two completely different series ran in completely different environment.
You even know what heritage means?
Yes I do
a yellow camel-lotus is a heritage livery.
What about the Camel sponsored Benetton? Those also were Yellow.

Or the Brun Porsche 962c's, also ran a Yellow Camel livery.

So it's a Camel heritage livery, not a Lotus.
Lotus is running a JPS heritage livery.
Like you said, a JPS heritage livery.
Williams before the Martini livery ran a rothmans heritage livery.
Like you said, a Rothmans heritage livery.

Porsche Works teams ran a rothmans livery on their 956s and 962s
Williams is now running a martini livery, despite classicly the martini livery was a brabham heritage livery.
What about the Lancias in the Group C? Or the Lancias in rally? What about the ford Focus in rally?

Those all ran Martini colors.

So it's a Martini heritage livery, and not a Brabham one.
Still, nobody confuses Williams with brabham.
Probably because they're ome 30 years apart.
Lotus also used to run a Green-yellow livery. That was their original brand colour. Green-yellow. Nobody thought Lotus wasn't lotus when they ran yellow camel liveries, gold leaf lotus liveries or JPS liveries.
Never said they did.
Meanwhile, Mclaren's original colour was papaya orange, but MClaren still gets recognised as mclaren in a red-white livery, a silvery west livery, a chrome-red vodafone livery, and whatever they'll run next.
So what you are saying is that those liveries aren't McLarens heritage, but rather a livery dictated by sponsorship?
wesley123 wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:the only reason they went for silver was because they changed to West as a sponsor, guess what colours west ran?
Actually, West can either be bordeaux red or silver. The grey was more of a Mercedes thing than a West thing.

let me correct that false statement for you.

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yes, keep being stubborn and ignorant.
You can stop with the insults now, thank you.
no, there's nothing 'west' about mclaren's test livery #-o :roll:
Well, seeing how they kept the same livery even after the West years that shows it well enough that it was a color/livery not specifically dictated by West.
With your logic, Mclaren's logo gets confused with Nike. Nike F1 team.
How so? They look nothing alike.
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Anyone else with a headache? :lol:

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mikeerfol wrote:Anyone else with a headache? :lol:
quite frankly, starting to get one, yes.
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Claiming that hypothetical McLaren livery looks like a Ferrari is just plain ridiculous, period.
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mikeerfol wrote:Anyone else with a headache? :lol:
Actually I quite enjoy reading this thread :mrgreen:
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Morteza wrote:
mikeerfol wrote:Anyone else with a headache? :lol:
Actually I quite enjoy reading this thread :mrgreen:
Yeah but some posts here are reaaaaaaaaaaaaally long :lol:

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mikeerfol wrote:
Morteza wrote:
mikeerfol wrote:Anyone else with a headache? :lol:
Actually I quite enjoy reading this thread :mrgreen:
Yeah but some posts here are reaaaaaaaaaaaaally long :lol:
I have learned some interesting facts through reading these long posts. I don't mind them :wink:
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Shrieker wrote:Claiming that hypothetical McLaren livery looks like a Ferrari is just plain ridiculous, period.
I'm not going to lie the first time I saw that red + white version I thought someone just changed (photoshop) the colours on the Ferrari but kept the same layout. I checked them both out and saw that they were different, but it was close enough for me to initially think they were painted in the same layout.

Just like this one, the first thing that came to my mind was the 1996 Hollywood sponsored Indy car
I must say I really do like the look of this one
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The area in front of the driver, red with a small white strip then a blue strip and a white nosecone, also the white lettering over red.
Yes I know the Mclaren one is black and not blue, but I'm coloured blind so I will see the similarities in the design layout first before I would see similarities in colour in this case blue and not black

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Did a quick (and pretty bad) Photoshop to show the similarities in shapes of the design. Like i said there's more to a livery than just colors, or different colors in different positions.

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And the Ferrari F14T
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As is clearly visible it follows a really similar art style. The white line(or in Ferrari's case, the italian flag) clearly is in the same position and follows a similar line. The differences here are that the Ferrari's line is a bit more square on the engine cover and that it returns forward higher up the engine cover.

I hope that the (badly done) color switch around shows it well enough how the liveries follow a similar color palette and a similar art style that just wouldn't work.

Nothing wrong with picking a Red, black and white color palette. Just make sure that the Red isn't Marlboro red and that the art style doesn't follow similarities to competitors. This isn't rocket science or anything.
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Oh FFS, are you still harping on about this?

If I had any down votes you'd be getting one!
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Because I'm discussing on a forum? Wow...
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