McLaren's new livery

[007 VXR]

Fingers crossed its faster. Looking better after P2

[slipstream 1985]

ajprice said:

Dear Ron, can you leave the red flow vis paint on the car, it looks loads better with the red streaks all over it. Maybe it's the blood of anyone who said the word orange to Ron's face

Looks like a cylon is in control.

[Teppic]

The new livery is apparently 2kg lighter than the old one.

[kiseca]

slipstream 1985 said:

Looks like a cylon is in control.

A cylon platypus..

[ajprice]

From the F1Technical forums, deliberate or coincidence?

[quote="Hail22"]Ah HA! I see a marketing tactic / ploy going on here with their livery:

So from the F1technical gallery we have this:



And then we have the rear of a Mclaren P1



I believe this may be the direction they're going, self advertising the motor car brand and if so its genius.
[/quote]

[kiseca]

ajprice said:

My money is on coincidence. Maybe it's on purpose but it's not a very strong resemblance and humans are programmed to seek patterns.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Sky F1 reckoned the change of paint saved them 1kg and some glare in the drivers vision.

[FourWheelDrift]

I always thought all the cars were underweight anyway and needed ballast to make the minimum weight, all this running over rubber at the end of the race to add weight to make sure they aren't under. So saving weight on the paint is IMHO a red herring.

[dr_gn]

ajprice said:

From the F1Technical forums, deliberate or coincidence?

[quote="Hail22"]Ah HA! I see a marketing tactic / ploy going on here with their livery:

So from the F1technical gallery we have this:



And then we have the rear of a Mclaren P1



I believe this may be the direction they're going, self advertising the motor car brand and if so its genius.

Shame nobody will see the back of a McLaren for a very long time.

[HarryFlatters]

FourWheelDrift said:

I always thought all the cars were underweight anyway and needed ballast to make the minimum weight, all this running over rubber at the end of the race to add weight to make sure they aren't under. So saving weight on the paint is IMHO a red herring.

Not really. I thought that they want the car to be as light as possible so that they can use the ballast lower on the car to lower it's CoG, and also to be able to move the ballast around to trim the balance of the car.

[sleep envy]

dr_gn said:

Shame nobody will see the back of a McLaren for a very long time.

The front runners tend to lap them in short order.

[Byker28i]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Sky F1 reckoned the change of paint saved them 1kg and some glare in the drivers vision.

Button should use that as an excuse as to why he ran into...

[kiseca]

HarryFlatters said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I always thought all the cars were underweight anyway and needed ballast to make the minimum weight, all this running over rubber at the end of the race to add weight to make sure they aren't under. So saving weight on the paint is IMHO a red herring.

Not really. I thought that they want the car to be as light as possible so that they can use the ballast lower on the car to lower it's CoG, and also to be able to move the ballast around to trim the balance of the car.

As I saw a BMW engineer quoted once, it's not what it weighs,it's where it weighs.

I think what it weighs is important too but I take his point. The great thing about ballast is you can put it wherever you want and you can move it as needed from race to race (regulations permitting).

[anonymous-user]

kiseca said:

As I saw a BMW engineer quoted once, it's not what it weighs,it's where it weighs.

I think what it weighs is important too but I take his point. The great thing about ballast is you can put it wherever you want and you can move it as needed from race to race (regulations permitting).

Hence why the only ballast that cannot me moved, the driver, needs to be as light as possible.

[rev-erend]

That chrome paint was costing about 20K per car. Silly money.

[hairyben]

Seen from the front, in photo's at least, the red stripe/flash gives the nose of the car a "double bubble" effect that just looks awkward and ungainly