McLaren 2015 livery

[Manoah2u]

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.

http://i.imgur.com/Yo8YMJ3.jpg
And the Ferrari F14T
http://f1tcdn.net/gallery/var/resizes/2 ... h/side.jpg

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.

dude seriously, they are NOTHING alike,

have you even realised you changed mclaren's white to RED? completely different to what it would be, and still call it similar, even though it isn't?

the black line is not even close to it, the mclaren photoshop has a clear straight edge that trails at the sidepod where the ferrari has a sharp corner in it resembling the Marlboro chevron!



the only thing both cars have in common is that they resemble F1 cars!

and if any, that reddened white of the macca photoshop now looks like a marussia, and STILL does not resemble a ferrari.

i have one last question for you, regarding something you cunningly try to avoid to respond to:



does this look like a ferrari to you? yes or no?

[bdr529]

What is a " Heritage livery " ?
is it old race cars painted in period correct livery that ran in the day ?
or is it when you use that old livery on a new car or maybe on a car that never was painted in that livery ?

[strad]

By then it was clear to Bruce that the tides of Cooper’s success were at low ebb. And Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. was created. Its first product was not a Formula 1 car, but a sports car made from a redundant Cooper F1 car turned sports racer and acquired from none other than Roger Penske.
The new outfit’s emblem was a shield bearing a checkered flag, the silhouette of a racing car and a browsing Kiwi to represent McLaren’s New Zealand roots. Within the new company the badge became known as “… a Kiwi being run over by a Cooper”.

McLaren and company were quick to see emerging trends in motorsport. A fresh set of practically unlimited sports car rules for a new class, Group 7 sports cars, told Bruce that the days of small, high-revving Formula 1 motors was ending. A new age of professional sports car racing with purpose built racing sports cars powered by a new generation of powerful, compact, tough and lightweight American production V-8 engines was at hand. He chose Oldsmobile’s new, lightweight, aluminum-block 3.9 liter (238 cubic inch) V-8 and stuffed a Traco-modified version of it in the tail of Roger Penske’s old Zerex Special.

The car was completed on a Sunday afternoon and the only paint color available to them was a can of dark green. The young team called their new racing sports car the “Cooper/Oldsmobile” to ward off any doubts or criticism from Bruce’s Surbiton-based employers. But from the moment the paint dried, the team called their new McLaren creation “The Jolly Green Giant.”

It worked. Bruce took the Jolly Green Giant to victory at its maiden race at Mosport Park near Toronto, Canada and followed that up a month later with a win at Brands Hatch in England.

The Jolly Green Giant was more Cooper than McLaren. Bruce’s first truly new car was the McLaren M1A, based on the Green Giant, but far more refined. It had a much stiffer chassis and bodywork that did not look homemade. It was painted black and silver, New Zealand’s official racing colors. A test session at Goodwood saw the M1A slice three seconds from the Jolly Green Giant’s best lap time.

Bruce McLaren was still driving for Cooper when the first of 24 production McLaren M1A Mk 1s was winning its debut race in Canada. Kiwi countryman Chris Amon did the honors as Bruce was scoring world championship F1 points for Cooper at the Monaco Grand Prix. By the time the next Grand Prix of Monaco rolled around Bruce McLaren was an official Formula 1 constructor in his own right, entering his own car bearing his surname.

The Mk 1 was a fine and basic design with a stiff tub and a Traco-modified Indy Ford four-cam engine. Bruce himself scored the marque’s first world championship point with a sixth place in the 1966 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. Again, McLaren’s timing was impeccable. That summer his tenure as test driver/engineer for Ford’s GT40 program paid off with the first of four Ford wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Bruce McLaren was now a Formula 1 and a Le Mans winner. This while creating a new company and designing and building new and competitive cars for three different racing formulae!

The first year of the new 3-liter Formula 1 (1966) brought the first McLaren-built F1 car to Monaco, and was also the first year of a radical new unlimited and very lucrative professional North American sports car series. It was named the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, but everyone called it the “Can-Am.” Lola cars, powered by Chevrolet V-8s, dominated the first season of the new pro series, but McLaren was well represented with a pair of spaceframe M1Cs for Chris Amon.

The McLaren M1-species in all its iterations had a long and productive life in North America in both the Can-Am and the SCCA’s semi-pro United States Road Racing Championship. But that was simply prologue for the 1967 Can-Am season and the arrival of the now famous “Bruce and Denny Show.” In vibrant living color. That color was papaya, but by the time Bruce McLaren and teammate Denny Hulme had finished their romp through the ’67 Can-Am Championship, everyone called it “McLaren Orange.” The hue was the brainchild of team manager Teddy Mayer who hated McLaren’s original red livery and wanted something that “… would show up like a beacon on TV.”

Mayer’s businesslike (American) approach to motorsport marketing remained a cornerstone of McLaren successes across nearly six decades.

The new McLaren racing hue showed up well in Spa, Belgium when Bruce won the third Formula 1 Grand Prix of his career in his McLaren M7A powered by Cosworth’s brilliant DFV V-8 engine. At 147.133 mph it was the fastest race of the Formula 1 season and the first of 182 F1 wins for McLaren’s brilliant F1 racers. By then, Denny Hulme had joined Bruce in F1 as well as the Can-Am team and got his first McLaren F1 win at Monza, Italy. He backed that up three weeks later by winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport, scene of his victory in the third round of the 1967 Can-Am championship the previous fall in the McLaren M6A.

Success came back to McLaren in the form of big checks for race wins and Can-Am championship. “The Bruce and Denny Show” won the team fans, juicy sponsorships and five Can-Am titles from 1967 through 1971. Unfortunately, cruelly, Bruce was not there to see his McLaren Orange cars win either the 1970 or 1971 Can-Am titles. He died testing the new M8D Can-Am car at Goodwood. The rear bodywork somehow became detached and heaved the new Can-Am car off the road. He was 32.

[wesley123]

have you even realised you changed mclaren's white to RED? completely different to what it would be, and still call it similar, even though it isn't?

That was the point, to better show the similarities in art style.

[djos]

have you even realised you changed mclaren's white to RED? completely different to what it would be, and still call it similar, even though it isn't?

That was the point, to better show the similarities in art style.

The reason I called your point idiotic is simply because if you switch the colours around as you have done, you can make almost any past teams F1 car look like another teams F1 car - it's pointless!

[wesley123]

have you even realised you changed mclaren's white to RED? completely different to what it would be, and still call it similar, even though it isn't?

That was the point, to better show the similarities in art style.

The reason I called your point idiotic is simply because if you switch the colours around as you have done, you can make almost any past teams F1 car look like another teams F1 car - it's pointless!

Not really.

[djos]

Not really.

yes really, case in point, lets paint this Lotus:



chrome and tadah, it looks like, omg now it looks like a MacLaren:

[wesley123]

Except for the fact that's color palette is completely different

[djos]

Except for the fact that's color palette is completely different

According to your logic so far it's close enuf to cause confusion!

[wesley123]

No, not really.

I'll help a little:

Both liveries use Red, black and white
Both liveries follow a stripe on the engine cover, this stripe splits the two main colors.
Both liveries have a thick black stripe on the lower part of the tub
Both liveries have red end plates
Both liveries split their two primary colors on a similar point, in a similar shape.

I don't think i can make it more clear than this.

[djos]

No, not really.

I'll help a little:

Both liveries use Red, black and white
Both liveries follow a stripe on the engine cover, this stripe splits the two main colors.
Both liveries have a thick black stripe on the lower part of the tub
Both liveries have red end plates
Both liveries split their two primary colors on a similar point, in a similar shape.

I don't think i can make it more clear than this.

Sorry, still totally failing .... besides it's a damn fan livery, you know a suggestion of direction to be taken, not the real thing.

[WaikeCU]

Today I came across this:



This has all the era's mixed together to be honest. It does look special in my opinion.

[djos]

It's a little bit overdone but I like the idea!

[djos]

I must admit, the more I look at this one the more I like it.



The chrome Orange anyway, I don't much like the amount of black.

[WaikeCU]

I must admit, the more I look at this one the more I like it.

http://i.imgur.com/bFbz6OJ.jpg

The chrome Orange anyway, I don't much like the amount of black.

second that! In my opinion that is the best looking livery, but it's easy to get confused with a Force India. Don't forget the Force India has some orange accents and has lots of black.