- 29 Jan 07, 22:25#4931
"And Mansell was lucky not to be taken off by that RIDICULOUS bit of driving by Alliot!!" - James Hunt
"AAAAAND into the pitlane..... OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" - Murray Walker
Tis the season where we all laugh, smile or cry at the sight of the teams and their new liveries on their new cars. Are there any old liveries you are glad to see the back of?
2007 Renault - If it weren't for that ugly orange on the new ING Livery, this car would look pretty nifty, but alas tis not.
1993 Ferrari - A Ferrari?? I thought it was a Scuderia Italia Dallara!! The resemblance to Ferrari's 1993 car and the Dallara livery Scuderia Italia had used from 1989 - 1992 was uncanny! Lucky SI was using the fiery Lola chassis that year.
1998 and 1999 Williams - A red Williams = instant recipe for disaster. As a Williams fan I was disgusted, crap livery, crap car, crap engine, crap seasons. 2000 couldn't come quick enough.
1996 "Gold" Jordan - The car looked good in mustard yellow at Melbourne, but when they changed the colour scheme to gold for Interlagos, I thought the car looked tacky beyond belief, looked more like a brown car! Things were much better 5 years earlier...
Pink 1992 Brabham - What a car for our Damon to make a debut in. A PINK car! What a car for Brabham to go out in! (along with numerous failures to qualify AND pre-qualify).
2006 and 2007 BMW Sauber - When Sauber first entered F1 in 1993 I liked their nice black livery, but when BMW bought them out and gave them a very 2001 - 2005 Williams-esque livery which actually looked even less eye-pleasing, I thought this was just the exact opposite of that great colour scheme from the 1993 Sauber.
ALL Toyotas - BORRRRRRRING!!! Toyota still look like they're using the exact same car from their debut season, and that's not just the paint job, the only thing that looks to have changed are the drivers and the numbers! (I preferred the good old fashioned number system)
1997 - 2005 McLaren - I will always remember McLaren for their neat Marlboro sponsorship, but when West became their title sponsor in 1997, my new name for McLaren became "Team Grey". The car was GREY!! The car had gone from bright and vibrant (I even remember my Scalextric 1995 McLaren's red was almost illuminous!!) to dull and boring. The 2006 and 2007 "Chrome" McLarens are a pleasure to the eye fortunately (aside from those ugly winglets and fins etc that every team seems to love scattering all over the chassis these days!).
2006 Spyker - You thought Spyker would have taken an example from Arrows if they wanted to have an orange car, but instead they decided to just paint orange over the existing Midland livery. They turned a pretty decent livery into an ugly tacky livery.
2007 Renault - If it weren't for that ugly orange on the new ING Livery, this car would look pretty nifty, but alas tis not.
1993 Ferrari - A Ferrari?? I thought it was a Scuderia Italia Dallara!! The resemblance to Ferrari's 1993 car and the Dallara livery Scuderia Italia had used from 1989 - 1992 was uncanny! Lucky SI was using the fiery Lola chassis that year.
1998 and 1999 Williams - A red Williams = instant recipe for disaster. As a Williams fan I was disgusted, crap livery, crap car, crap engine, crap seasons. 2000 couldn't come quick enough.
1996 "Gold" Jordan - The car looked good in mustard yellow at Melbourne, but when they changed the colour scheme to gold for Interlagos, I thought the car looked tacky beyond belief, looked more like a brown car! Things were much better 5 years earlier...
Pink 1992 Brabham - What a car for our Damon to make a debut in. A PINK car! What a car for Brabham to go out in! (along with numerous failures to qualify AND pre-qualify).
2006 and 2007 BMW Sauber - When Sauber first entered F1 in 1993 I liked their nice black livery, but when BMW bought them out and gave them a very 2001 - 2005 Williams-esque livery which actually looked even less eye-pleasing, I thought this was just the exact opposite of that great colour scheme from the 1993 Sauber.
ALL Toyotas - BORRRRRRRING!!! Toyota still look like they're using the exact same car from their debut season, and that's not just the paint job, the only thing that looks to have changed are the drivers and the numbers! (I preferred the good old fashioned number system)
1997 - 2005 McLaren - I will always remember McLaren for their neat Marlboro sponsorship, but when West became their title sponsor in 1997, my new name for McLaren became "Team Grey". The car was GREY!! The car had gone from bright and vibrant (I even remember my Scalextric 1995 McLaren's red was almost illuminous!!) to dull and boring. The 2006 and 2007 "Chrome" McLarens are a pleasure to the eye fortunately (aside from those ugly winglets and fins etc that every team seems to love scattering all over the chassis these days!).
2006 Spyker - You thought Spyker would have taken an example from Arrows if they wanted to have an orange car, but instead they decided to just paint orange over the existing Midland livery. They turned a pretty decent livery into an ugly tacky livery.
"And Mansell was lucky not to be taken off by that RIDICULOUS bit of driving by Alliot!!" - James Hunt
"AAAAAND into the pitlane..... OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" - Murray Walker
