McLaren Honda will run its cars with a revised livery at the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix. The team appears to be set to continue with this livery throughout the remainder of the season.
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So I have spent some time refining the details of the new McLaren livery, taking inspiration from the early season livery and that of the 1998 McLaren MP4/13. What do you think?
Ash9414 wrote:So I have spent some time refining the details of the new McLaren livery, taking inspiration from the early season livery and that of the 1998 McLaren MP4/13. What do you think?
"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"
I really don't understand what happened to them. It's such a mess there. I've read about these rumours how Woking is like some sort of dictatorship camp where you can only work how Ron Dennis wants it, that every cubible must be the same,
grey,grey,grey. I don't know whether it's true or not but it must be said it woudln't really surprise me if it did looking at the vibe Mclaren is giving the last [decade] years.
Perhaps Ron is the problem, i don't know. All i know is that this Mclaren is not the Mclaren of the good old days. It's different. I see less true innovation, and i see a huge lack of 'stimulant'. Like 'groundhog day', at the office, ev-ery sin-gle day.
If we look @ Ferrari, then offcourse, Ferrari always has been far more 'passionate' compared to Macca. But even they realised that right about everything was wrong and such a mighty gigantic company as Ferrari 'simply' 'did away' with Di Montzemolo, Domenicali, and his [temporal] replacement Mattiaci. They swung around and the result is not to be taken lightly, Ferrari is Ferrari again - even if they're not where they would want to be.
I expected more from Mclaren's Honda partnership. Not from the get-go, but half-way into the season this is not what i'd expected to see from them. No stimulating progress, no huge new sponsor deals, not a scent of Honda-might of old. It's all grey. The car itself is hardly exiting to look at, and that's not due to the design, it's due to the livery and appearence.
Something must happen @ Mclaren. it really must. Sadly enough if i understand correctly Ron has taken back quite a share of himself in Mclaren, but for all that's worth, i'm really hoping there are still big 'men' @ power at Mclaren and that they are going to 'release' Ron from his function, aswell as a bunch of people there. Like Bouiller, for crying out loud. Whitmarsh wasn't the best, but he was by far better @ his job than Eric. Keep Pomodrou and the design team, grant them more freedom and grant them the budget available, demand from Honda that they adapt their strategies to fit with Mclaren, and get progress from the mighty yens' theyve been throwing at it. Get a big sponsor, and attract a designer that knows what he's doing regarding liveries, not some bland corporate imaging.
It's nonsense that the new livery is because it resembles Mclaren's logo thus promoting the automotive company.
If they've got an attractive, exciting livery, then that'll focus attention on themselves thus focus attentio to Mclaren Automotive. Results the same; grab attention, grab interest.
Did Mclaren somehow forget winning is most important in F1?
"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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