Best and worst F1 liveries?

Best and worst F1 liveries?

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glazbagun

14,277 posts

197 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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Cyder said:
Reading this has made me realise just what a mess F1 is in now in terms of sponsorship. Even the hopeless teams 10-20 years ago had a raft of sponsors helping to keep the teams afloat. Now we've got Manor with nothing, Mclaren with barely anything, Sauber with some Brazilian bank and nothing else.

It's a sad state of affairs watching F1 disappear up its own orifice.
I wonder how much of that is due to the rise of Facebook and Google. If you had £20M to spend on advertising surely you can target it to a much tighter group than "people who watch F1 and will see the rear wing of a Sauber" and thus get a better return on your product.

Reading Jackie Stewarts autobiography described how the grand prix invites were sold as a way for fellow sponsors to schmooze and make contacts, I guess you can't do that online, but I'm sure you can do it at a whole bunch of other events for less money.


Europa1

10,923 posts

188 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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glazbagun said:
Cyder said:
Reading this has made me realise just what a mess F1 is in now in terms of sponsorship. Even the hopeless teams 10-20 years ago had a raft of sponsors helping to keep the teams afloat. Now we've got Manor with nothing, Mclaren with barely anything, Sauber with some Brazilian bank and nothing else.

It's a sad state of affairs watching F1 disappear up its own orifice.
I wonder how much of that is due to the rise of Facebook and Google. If you had £20M to spend on advertising surely you can target it to a much tighter group than "people who watch F1 and will see the rear wing of a Sauber" and thus get a better return on your product.

Reading Jackie Stewarts autobiography described how the grand prix invites were sold as a way for fellow sponsors to schmooze and make contacts, I guess you can't do that online, but I'm sure you can do it at a whole bunch of other events for less money.
That's certainly what I've read about Genii's approach with Lotus - they see big advantages in the B2B angle, less so the B2C.

AshVX220

5,929 posts

190 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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My favourite was always the yellow Jordon's, preferaably with the snake over the hornet. "Bitten 'n' Hisses" just worked better than "Buzzin Hornets" IMO.

Plus I've always had a thing for yellow cars, few models can carry off yellow. For example, I thought my Mk2 MR2 looked great in Yellow, but when I looked for a VX, I didn't think it looked quite as good in yellow IYSWIM.

Speed Badger

2,689 posts

117 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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The Sauber C29, worst livery simply because there isn't one...


VladD

7,855 posts

265 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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ajprice

27,468 posts

196 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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Speed Badger said:
The Sauber C29, worst livery simply because there isn't one...

It had slot mag wheels though, which makes up for it 10 times over.


Speed Badger

2,689 posts

117 months

Wednesday 25th March 2015
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True, although sad state of livery affairs if the wheels have to make the rest of the car. Dunno what Pedro and Kamui are grinning about looking at that thing - probably the wheels like you say!

Also having a Lotus drooling session now for the previous pic bow

Speed Badger

2,689 posts

117 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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Minardi was mentioned earlier - I'm a big fan of their earlier liveries, but this later one always stood out as being rather smart despite a bit of a scattering of smaller sponsors.


dr_gn

16,160 posts

184 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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geeks said:
Still love the BGP001!

Come on! How can you say that a racing car with stationary front wheels even when moving looks good?

All the aesthetic finesse of a cheap trainer IMO.

dr_gn

16,160 posts

184 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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VladD said:
That's a photo of a model BTW, but yeah, nice looking car.

williamp

19,255 posts

273 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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http://www.f1colours.com/2013/01/05/livery-histori...

good website here with lots of liveries, plus helmet colours.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

196 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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FourWheelDrift

88,501 posts

284 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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I always liked the distinctive Orange Arrows. Shame they went under, Super Aguri used the last Arrows as the base for their first car 4 years later.


F1GTRUeno

6,353 posts

218 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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3xpendable said:
I've always liked the 1994 Footwork..

Someone on this site has bought one of these recently, in the M/// Thread.

It's currently in a Ferrari livery though for some odd reason so needs convincing to go back to the original and pretty cool Footwork livery.

ChemicalChaos

10,387 posts

160 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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F1GTRUeno said:
3xpendable said:
I've always liked the 1994 Footwork..

Someone on this site has bought one of these recently, in the M/// Thread.

It's currently in a Ferrari livery though for some odd reason so needs convincing to go back to the original and pretty cool Footwork livery.
The M thread? It should surely be in Frivolous Purchase, where it would win the thread!!!


F1GTRUeno

6,353 posts

218 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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ChemicalChaos said:
F1GTRUeno said:
3xpendable said:
I've always liked the 1994 Footwork..

Someone on this site has bought one of these recently, in the M/// Thread.

It's currently in a Ferrari livery though for some odd reason so needs convincing to go back to the original and pretty cool Footwork livery.
The M thread? It should surely be in Frivolous Purchase, where it would win the thread!!!
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Edited by F1GTRUeno on Wednesday 1st April 17:38

chevronb37

6,471 posts

186 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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VladD

7,855 posts

265 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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chevronb37 said:
Can I please give that the first official "Wibble".

Speed Badger

2,689 posts

117 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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While we are Martini-ing, how about:


ChemicalChaos

10,387 posts

160 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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Speed Badger said:
While we are Martini-ing, how about:

Nice livery, ugly car