Formula 1 2019 Season - Car Launch Dates
Discussion
sgtBerbatov said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Smollet said:
Sammo123 said:
Looks like I’m the only one who likes the Williams livery then. Toro Rosso looks exactly the same as last year and the Haas doesn’t have enough gold.
I quite like Williams livery as well 
CLare Williams:
“We are telling the world a very clear story and clear message as to where we are as a company," added Claire, who said moving away from the team's traditional colours shows they are a "fresh, revitalised brand".
Where’s that then Clare? Back of the field again”?
"Frank is very protective of the traditional navy blue and white, but also understanding of the arguments behind the change.
"He is fully behind it. I am still here, and if he didn't like it, he would have fired me."
A pity hedidn’t fire you.
sgtBerbatov said:
To be fair they could paint the the thing pink with yellow polka dots on it, with Noel Edmonds ugly mug on it, as long as it's a better car than last year that's all that matters.
To be fair, Noel Edmunds has a good record and taste in cars.....anyone remember his involvement with the Panoz GTR1 back in 97 :-)
37chevy said:
sgtBerbatov said:
To be fair they could paint the the thing pink with yellow polka dots on it, with Noel Edmonds ugly mug on it, as long as it's a better car than last year that's all that matters.
To be fair, Noel Edmunds has a good record and taste in cars.....anyone remember his involvement with the Panoz GTR1 back in 97 :-)I don't mind the liveries, in fact I'd go as far as to say I don't really care what colours they are. (Though I do have a bias towards the old Lotus Black n Gold).
However, the protrusion of the front wing on all the released cars, looks horrid and ungainly. How you would risk a close overtaking move with that lump of carbon sticking out like a giant wand, is a mystery!
However, the protrusion of the front wing on all the released cars, looks horrid and ungainly. How you would risk a close overtaking move with that lump of carbon sticking out like a giant wand, is a mystery!
RobGT81 said:
Anyone else concerned for Williams and Haas with their slightly dubious looking sponsors?
I’d guess Williams dodged a bullet with the beardy con man but after that, there was probably not much left on the table for back marked teams.Big brands are not interested in sponsoring F1 any more - pay per view means real audience figures (live viewing/engaged audiences) have plummeted - how much would a brand want to pay Williams F1 being watched by av’ of less than 2m UK live viewers per race (being lapped?)
Vaud said:
Kraken said:
About as imaginative as ROKiT's website for products you can't buy yet (seems to be a trend).
Decent backer though in this case:https://www.pcmag.com/news/365842/rokit-has-the-wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_DeJoria
He does at least have some money...
With this RokIt thing, it looks like the strands of the enterprise have a history along the lines of this: middling U.K. marketing and sales managers leave HTC on eve of a big launch. Launch “Kazam”. Just a bitsa smartphone that will ‘change’ the world with low barrier to purchase, but likely knocked up as any smartphone is out of China these days. Then....nothing. Then up pops Wileyfox. Same old faces, same old story. Next thing you know it’s...”...in administration”. Yep. With all those 20-odd “R&D” or boxpackers in some small business park in Wrexham or somewhere being made redundant. Then this Kendrick comes along, another one of these serial ‘entrepreneurs’ and thinks he can now wave new shiny smartphone mockups in an exhibition hall and the newest, greatest smartphone the world will ever see, is coming to you soon.
DeJoria and Kendrick meet up, DeJoria thinks he can throw a few bob at it, like a day at the Kentucky Derby, and there we go. A sort of familiar story of quid pro quo then ensues: “...upfront let’s give Claire something to run with, we gain PR headlights, if it fails then so what, “one up the bum, no harm done”, if it takes off, we better get some white label smartphones out the door quick!”
The RokIt lifestyle package is the bone shaker for me: I doubt people who already have a centurion card, a netjet subscription and all the other accoutrements will be swayed with yet another no brand lifestyle enhancement offering.
What I find so depressing is that Williams is in such a position where it needs to run with these sort of unsubstantiated arrangements. Yes, McLaren is rolling around too in the pigsty but at least it’s pulled off one of the largest blue chips in the world. With Haas, my guess is that Gene Haas doesn’t really need anything on the side of his car, he already has his financial model well screwed in, so the Rich Energy is a ‘Why not’ scenario and if it bombs, so what? There’s little risk there.
Guys like DeJoria sometimes pull off great marketing coups like Patron, and enjoy the sell off. He might be a true presence when it comes to long term sponsorship and financing. But my guess is that Kendrick is like dozens and dozens of these serial entrepreneur types out there, always coming up with something new to relabel or get busy with. High percentage failures await, then it’s onto the next thing. Bottletops. Or hairdryers. Or new snazzy phones.
I’m happy to be wrong, watch Superman reverse the world by flying anti-clockwise back to 2005 (listen to those V10s), and be pleasantly surprised that Elvis did not indeed die on the toilet.
Didn’t Frank Williams used to run his shop out of a telephone box? Formula 1 eh, wasn’t it ever thus.
37chevy said:
To be fair, Noel Edmunds has a good record and taste in cars.....anyone remember his involvement with the Panoz GTR1 back in 97 :-)
I do recall that. Unfortunately more recently his was on the telly doing a classic car race across IIRC Burma. He was with his wife racing against other celeb teams. I'll watch almost anything with old cars in, and I turned it off. Utter dross.DanielSan said:
I wish Renault would go back to the Matte Liquid Yellow from 2017, the car just seems to get more and more black every year.
And please God let it be fast...
Oh yes please!And please God let it be fast...
I don’t understand why so many teams go black, there’s certainly a few more this year, it’s so depressing and surely a marketing negative!?
REALIST123 said:
Exactly. Just build a decent car, FFS.
CLare Williams:
“We are telling the world a very clear story and clear message as to where we are as a company," added Claire, who said moving away from the team's traditional colours shows they are a "fresh, revitalised brand".
Where’s that then Clare? Back of the field again”?
"Frank is very protective of the traditional navy blue and white, but also understanding of the arguments behind the change.
"He is fully behind it. I am still here, and if he didn't like it, he would have fired me."
A pity hedidn’t fire you.
Can you stop being an arse for once? Just try it, even briefly?CLare Williams:
“We are telling the world a very clear story and clear message as to where we are as a company," added Claire, who said moving away from the team's traditional colours shows they are a "fresh, revitalised brand".
Where’s that then Clare? Back of the field again”?
"Frank is very protective of the traditional navy blue and white, but also understanding of the arguments behind the change.
"He is fully behind it. I am still here, and if he didn't like it, he would have fired me."
A pity hedidn’t fire you.
Bellend.
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