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[texasmr2]

Now that would be sweet !

[Jensonb]

Possible. The only other option they have if they want to get away from the silver and its associations with Mercedes is Red and White,

Look at the colour of the car in my avatar for McLarens true colours they could race in.

Nope, they can't use the Orange, they're sponsored by Vodafone who would never allow it.

[texasmr2]

Why wouldn't they allow it? Are you refering too a clash with the corp's signature colors? Would be sweet though you must admit .

[What's Burning?]

Why wouldn't they allow it? Are you refering too a clash with the corp's signature colors? Would be sweet though you must admit .

Orange is another cellular provider that's a competitor to Vodaphone, like Verizon here not Wanting their car to be painted AT&T blue.

[What's Burning?]

Why wouldn't they allow it? Are you refering too a clash with the corp's signature colors? Would be sweet though you must admit .

Orange is another cellular provider that's a competitor to Vodaphone, like Verizon here not Wanting their car to be painted AT&T blue.

EDIT: coincidentally Vodaphone happens to be a minority owner of Verizon.

[Gaz]

Why wouldn't they allow it? Are you refering too a clash with the corp's signature colors? Would be sweet though you must admit .

Orange is another cellular provider that's a competitor to Vodaphone, like Verizon here not Wanting their car to be painted AT&T blue.

EDIT: coincidentally Vodaphone happens to be a minority owner of Verizon.

Yeh Vodafone are massive.

[Jensonb]

Why wouldn't they allow it? Are you refering too a clash with the corp's signature colors? Would be sweet though you must admit .

Orange is another cellular provider that's a competitor to Vodaphone, like Verizon here not Wanting their car to be painted AT&T blue.

Yep. And because Orange is actually CALLED Orange, their entire brand is that colour, so it would be an even bigger problem.

Shame really, because I quite like the idea of the McLaren being Chromatic Orange, that woud be pimp as get out.

[bud]

Possible. The only other option they have if they want to get away from the silver and its associations with Mercedes is Red and White,

Look at the colour of the car in my avatar for McLarens true colours they could race in.

Nope, they can't use the Orange, they're sponsored by Vodafone who would never allow it.

it's not like silver is apart of Vodafones colour scheme.

[vaptin]

Possible. The only other option they have if they want to get away from the silver and its associations with Mercedes is Red and White,

Look at the colour of the car in my avatar for McLarens true colours they could race in.

Nope, they can't use the Orange, they're sponsored by Vodafone who would never allow it.

it's not like silver is apart of Vodafones colour scheme.

Orange the colour Orange the company, the similarities are very strong, Orange have branding based around the colour orange, so making the McLaren's orange might also end up tending to that.

Let's say if Orange sponsored McLaren, they'd be happy for the cars to be orange, whereas perhaps for Vodafone the colour isn't of such significance.

[bud]

who would have thought the F11 preview thread would turn into a McLaren livery thread.

[scotty]

I've seen people discussing the McLaren gear and livery elsewhere, someone went off and enquired on twitter and got the following response:




So there you go...

I had heard that steps have been taken to ban them, but that might just be rumour...

If memory serves me that was early last season, there is a discussion or mention about elsewhere it but I don't want to 'search' for it.

The wheel rims are homologated and can't be changed during the season. Obviously legal in 2010 and I don't see anything that will ban them for 2011.

Got this from Scarbsf1

No more shaped wheel spokes

After the static front wheel fairings that abounded in 2009, were banned and the wheel design homologated, there must have been some surprise that Ferrari managed to create an aerodynamic wheel shape in 2010. This is partly limited now by the restriction on surface area for spokes and shaping. The limited only allows 13% of the wheel centre to be spoked, meaning that a ten spoke wheel has to have spokes just 16mm wide.

“12.4.6 When viewed perpendicular to the plane formed by the outer face of the wheel and between the diameters of 120mm and 270mm the wheel may have an area of no greater than 24,000mm2.”

Aha, i knew i'd seen it!

[Jensonb]

I've seen people discussing the McLaren gear and livery elsewhere, someone went off and enquired on twitter and got the following response:




So there you go...

Figures. I'd always assumed the plan was to stick with the current colours until they go Works for 2013.

[spankyham]

It's good to hear Nick so upbeat about the F11 in this article. Nick usually doesn't say too much, and on the strength of that this is pretty promising. I had heard that the wind-tunnel upgrade was very significant.


Ferrari targets aero gains to catch Red Bull
Date 2011-01-07

Ferrari has restructured its aerodynamics department and upgraded its wind tunnel in a bid to track down the championship-winning Red Bull team in 2011.

That is the announcement of the Maranello based team's chief designer Nikolas Tombazis, after Red Bull's car proved the class of the field for the second consecutive season last year.

Ferrari would have won the drivers' title if not for the race strategy blunder in Abu Dhabi, but Ferrari figures including Tombazis openly admit that the F10 was not as quick as the RB6.

"Mainly in the area of aerodynamics our car was not as good as the Red Bull," Athens-born Tombazis told the German magazine Sport Bild.

"That's why we have restructured the aerodynamics department, upgraded our wind tunnel and launched an ambitious development programme.

"And of course we are looking to have new and innovative components," he added.

Fernando Alonso will give Ferrari's 2011 car its track debut at the Valencia group test beginning 1 February.

"But we are expecting a fairly big step up for the first race," revealed Tombazis. "The configuration has a lot of development potential."

[vaptin]

I've been wondering whether this new wind tunnel coincided with Ferrari's comeback in the second half of 2010.

[JackMaster]

I've been wondering whether this new wind tunnel coincided with Ferrari's comeback in the second half of 2010.

That comes from the other thread and just to finish it, because I had written it when it was locked. I'm sorry for the rest of you.
You find easier to believe such a mistake, than he knew that he was going to be replaced by Pat Fry and simply felt betrayed by Ferrari. How much easier?
Anyway, sometimes we have to reverse the Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation is often the likeliest, also means that the simplest explanation isn’t always the correct.
Don’t forget that sometimes we also have to look around, not only in front of us, because there are a lot of people doing things over there and we have to make deductions to find the truth that isn’t always at first sight.
If you don’t want to answer, you’re in your right. It will be a pity, but as you know I appreciate your opinions.