Formula 1 2019 Season - Car Launch Dates

[MiniMan64]

HustleRussell said:

ajprice said:

Another Mercedes close up

Really glad Mercedes are finally funking up the boring c220CDI inspired livery

Testing livery only surely?

[Mr_Thyroid]

MiniMan64 said:

HustleRussell said:

ajprice said:

Another Mercedes close up

Really glad Mercedes are finally funking up the boring c220CDI inspired livery

Testing livery only surely?

The bit on the right in the background is the tyre so that, at least, will change.

[Kraken]

Do people really have to quote the picture each time?

[DanielSan]

Anyone else think Haas has all the makings of this....



https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/sports.vice.com/amp...

[Jordan210]

Williams have lost Hackett as a kit suppler and got some strange Swedish company thats based on American college look. Oddly the companies group website also doesn't work.


called James Harvest

https://www.united-brands.co.uk

https://www.jamesharvest.com

[The Moose]

Jordan210 said:

Williams have lost Hackett as a kit suppler and got some strange Swedish company thats based on American college look. Oddly the companies group website also doesn't work.

called James Harvest

https://www.united-brands.co.uk

https://www.jamesharvest.com

CEO of Texet Benelux Tom Van Heffen said:

Motorsport has been a part of the James Harvest Sportswears DNA for many years and the opportunity of working with one of the giants of Formula One is a dream come true and sends shivers down my spine.

I'd be stting myself partnering with Williams also

[HardtopManual]

Rich Energy are an embarrassment to Haas and F1. I suspect the team and its staff are going to end up with very burnt fingers.

Everything surrounding the "Rich" brand is crude and amateurish. They say they offer a premium product, but there's nothing premium about anything with their name on it.

[Andy S15]

Seems to be a thing this year - since when did car launch actually mean livery launch? Sounds like a bit of a cop out to me.

Strong smells of T-minus coming from the Rich Energy deal indeed. Interesting to see what happens with it, let just hope Gene Haas got the money out of them up front.

[StevieBee]

Jordan210 said:

Williams have lost Hackett as a kit suppler and got some strange Swedish company thats based on American college look. Oddly the companies group website also doesn't work.

called James Harvest

https://www.united-brands.co.uk

https://www.jamesharvest.com

They've never been the same since Barclay left.

(It's at this point posters reveal their age )

[Speed Badger]

I have a feeling that Rich energy is made up. I reckon they've had a website made to make it look legit, but it's just a bunch of rich eccentrics that want to lavish it up in the F1 circus. If some rich bloke wants to sponsor an F1 team for £30million quid and splash a random fictional product on the car, then would that matter to a team whether the 30 mil comes from a company selling alcoholic beverages, energy drink or indeed nothing at all?!

[StevieBee]

Speed Badger said:

I have a feeling that Rich energy is made up. I reckon they've had a website made to make it look legit, but it's just a bunch of rich eccentrics that want to lavish it up in the F1 circus. If some rich bloke wants to sponsor an F1 team for £30million quid and splash a random fictional product on the car, then would that matter to a team whether the 30 mil comes from a company selling alcoholic beverages, energy drink or indeed nothing at all?!

It would depend on how the money was made in the first place.

[Mr_Yogi]

Speed Badger said:

I have a feeling that Rich energy is made up. I reckon they've had a website made to make it look legit, but it's just a bunch of rich eccentrics that want to lavish it up in the F1 circus. If some rich bloke wants to sponsor an F1 team for £30million quid and splash a random fictional product on the car, then would that matter to a team whether the 30 mil comes from a company selling alcoholic beverages, energy drink or indeed nothing at all?!

Rich Energy?

[ukaskew]

Speed Badger said:

I have a feeling that Rich energy is made up. I reckon they've had a website made to make it look legit, but it's just a bunch of rich eccentrics that want to lavish it up in the F1 circus. If some rich bloke wants to sponsor an F1 team for £30million quid and splash a random fictional product on the car, then would that matter to a team whether the 30 mil comes from a company selling alcoholic beverages, energy drink or indeed nothing at all?!

They sponsor West Ham Ladies and apparently have a link to the owners of West Ham. Interestingly the press release for West Ham says Rich Energy is sold in over 6000 locations in the UK. Given that's equivalent to being in every Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Morrisons I'm calling BS on that one, as I've never seen it in a supermarket (or anywhere else for that matter).

Also, at 90m cans that means they’ve sold 15,000 cans per store, which surely could only be supermarket numbers.

Very strange, it's like unicorn juice.

Edited by ukaskew on Friday 8th February 09:04

[Evercross]

StevieBee said:

It would depend on how the money was made in the first place.

This.

Its as shady as a shady thing, and they are not even being particularly clever about hiding the shadiness. It is almost a piss-take.

[Kraken]

Andy S15 said:

Seems to be a thing this year - since when did car launch actually mean livery launch? Sounds like a bit of a cop out to me.

By doing a livery launch they're not lost in the noise of all the car releases on consecutive, and sometimes the same, days. People are still talking about Haas, for example, now the day after (and are likely to until Williams as nothing else is going on) whereas if they launched the whole car people would stop talking when the next one comes out a few hours later.

Plus they get exposure again when they release the actual car. Might not be double the exposure but certainly more than just doing one release.

[StevieBee]

Andy S15 said:

Seems to be a thing this year - since when did car launch actually mean livery launch? Sounds like a bit of a cop out to me

Has been thus for an awfully long time. It's a marketing exercise to promote new or retaining sponsors. Some semblance of what the new car may look like might be included on the car shown at the launch for for the most part, the car shown will most likely be last year's underneath, barring any major technical changes.

The new cars launch on the first day of testing.

[Silverbullet767]

Evercross said:

StevieBee said:

It would depend on how the money was made in the first place.

This.

Its as shady as a shady thing, and they are not even being particularly clever about hiding the shadiness. It is almost a piss-take.

It gets stranger.

https://twitter.com/FAP_Kyizi/status/1092226059565...

[rallycross]

Evercross said:

This.

and they are not even being particularly clever about hiding the shadiness. It is almost a piss-take.

Most recent accounts show £581 cash reserves, previous year £110.

You can’t buy the product (I’m not interested in buying it but out of interest have tried buying the past couple of months in the U.K. Australia and East coast USA and guess what - no product).

A cynic might say the big fat chancer would have shaved his silly beard off by now if he was even remotely serious.

[carinaman]

I thought the Rich Energy fans may like that video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8_W7uS_Lc

[HorneyMX5]

It is all very odd!