McLaren F1 2017

McLaren F1 2017

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Wednesday 18th January 2017
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Personally the iconic Orange and White was McLaren for me but obviously this was to do with sponsorship at the time.

Taken from Autosport.

McLaren is set for a major Formula 1 livery revamp this year, amid mounting suggestions its new car will incorporate its iconic orange branding.

The team is embarking on a new era following the departure of its long-time chairman Ron Dennis at the end of last year, with executive director Zak Brown eager to revitalise the Woking-based outfit.

Brown, who became known as F1's sponsorship and marketing guru, has been clear that McLaren will do things differently from now on, and that is poised to include a new look for its car.

Speaking at last weekend's Autosport International show, Brown said the team's 2017 livery had been signed off, and he dropped a big hint about visual changes.

"We've shown it to the guys and girls at McLaren and we're very excited for our future," he said.

"We've just signed off on the car livery and I think the fans will be excited to find out what the car looks like both technically and visually."

Further rumours about the livery plans have been fuelled by the team's use of orange lettering in the tweet that confirmed the date of its 2017 car launch.

Sources suggest that the change coming for 2017 could hark back to the famous orange livery that the team ran in Can-Am and in F1 from 1968 to 1971.

McLaren has also run the orange colours during pre-season testing before - ahead of the 1997 and '98 campaigns and again in 2006 [pictured below].



Whether or not the entire McLaren 2017 F1 will be orange, or if only sections of the car will be orange, has not been revealed though, with the team eager to keep quiet about its plans prior to the launch on February 24.


There was talk ahead of McLaren's new partnership with Honda in 2015 that it could switch to a red and white design, but in the end it stuck with the traditional chrome and dark grey concept that it had used since 1997 before switching to black and red for the fifth race of the year in Spain.

Ahead of the 2015 campaign, then-McLaren boss Dennis said he saw no reason to change just because fans wanted the car to look better.

"We have had the same [discussions about livery] inside the team: all of these people were saying, why don't we make it orange - because that was the old colour of McLaren?" he said.

"Well, I say, 'you just said it - it was the old colour of McLaren. Why the hell do we want to go backwards?'

"So what do you do? Do you create an aesthetically pleasing design? But for what purpose?

"This is the livery of McLaren. It has always been a combination of these colours - and it will only change for commercial reasons.

"It won't change just to make a few people in the company happier because they want it orange or they want it yellow."

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 18th January 13:01


Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 18th January 13:02

pits

6,423 posts

189 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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I'd love to see the orange back, never been too fussed on the Mclarens when they went to silver (with Merc) and the black they're now, for me I think the perfect livery would be like MP4-4 but using Honda Red at the back, then use Mclaren Orange, then white, then orange then red, can't complain it is Marlboro then

Dodgey_Rog

1,986 posts

259 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Ooooohhh yes;



(even if that is the 2016 car, still looks good)

Teppic

7,317 posts

256 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Dodgey_Rog said:
Ooooohhh yes;



(even if that is the 2016 car, still looks good)
As nice as that is, that's a fan made livery. Mobil 1 are no longer associated with McLaren.

rallycross

12,747 posts

236 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Arrows? 2002?



anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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This will never happen but


FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Something in their new fuel sponsors colours?


HardtopManual

2,404 posts

165 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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I always worry when a team starts talking about an exciting livery.

It is almost always accompanied by a slide down the order.

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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When Ron left he took the McLaren F1 colour chart with him.




So anything different will be exciting.

rev-erend

21,404 posts

283 months

Wednesday 25th January 2017
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Dodgey_Rog said:
Ooooohhh yes;



(even if that is the 2016 car, still looks good)
Yep.

Like that.

Hoping McLaren are watching.

ajprice

27,317 posts

195 months

Wednesday 25th January 2017
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FourWheelDrift said:
Something in their new fuel sponsors colours?

A similar Castrol one with a black rear end

Piginapoke

4,736 posts

184 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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Doesn't matter what colour when so few sponsors

anonymous-user

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53 months

Saturday 28th January 2017
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ELUSIVEJIM said:
Personally the iconic Orange and White was McLaren for me but obviously this was to do with sponsorship at the time.
I think you mean Red and White.

They used Papaya (an orange/yellow colour) in solid during their formative years from 1967, once they went through the dark green or red/white of the very early USA based cars used in 65/66.

They ran an orange and white mix during the short lived Yardley sponsorship, but most recall McLaren as the period when Phillip Morris got involved as sponsor where they then used the Red and White colour scheme of Marlboro.

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Saturday 28th January 2017
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Apart from Portugal 1986 when they were yellow & white.


anonymous-user

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53 months

Saturday 28th January 2017
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Friday afternoon paint job. laugh

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Saturday 28th January 2017
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I think it was meant to represent nicotine stained fingers biggrin

anonymous-user

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53 months

Saturday 28th January 2017
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its properly hideous. biggrin

Gary C

12,313 posts

178 months

Monday 30th January 2017
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Don't give a fig what colour it is,

Just in its performance.

They wil probably start the year badly again, talk about some new tech/design/engine that they just 'have to get working' then go down hill from there.

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Monday 30th January 2017
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The problem with liveries is that they are normally corrupted by the demands of separate sponsors, so at least McL stand a chance of getting a good on.

I've not been as entranced by any team's paint job since the black of gold of Lotus. It's old hat now I suppose, but it was remarkable in its day, not to mention being driven by Andretti and the great, and lamented, Peterson.


FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Monday 30th January 2017
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Gary C said:
Don't give a fig what colour it is,

Just in its performance.

They wil probably start the year badly again, talk about some new tech/design/engine that they just 'have to get working' then go down hill from there.
"McLaren have done a very good job on the 2017 car" - http://www.crash.net/f1/news/239029/1/mclaren-have...