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Is This The 2015 McLaren-Honda?

There are so many photoshops going around of people’s fantasy McLaren liveries at the moment that we would take this with a huge pinch of salt, and there are quite a few telltale hints of it just being a clever ‘shop; but we’re running the picture anyway because… well, look [Read More]

January 20, 2015 // 6 Comments

Fantasy 2015 Liveries Are A Big Thing Right Now And We Love Them

Perhaps it's the fact that 2014 didn't see too many in the way of drastic changes to the previous year's liveries - or perhaps it's just that we expect that 2015 may see a radically different style grid for more reasons than one - but whatever the rationale, it seems that there's a growing trend among fantasy F1 livery designers to already be looking forwards to next year, and styling possible future cars. [Read More]

September 30, 2014 // 2 Comments

2014 McLaren Is Not West-Inspired, Either

Well, they teased us. They must have known what they were doing leaving those sidepods outside their garage - they knew we'd all think they were bringing back a version of the classic 1997-2005 West "Silver Arrows" livery. We were all set to declare them late victors over Williams in the "best livery of 2014" stakes. And then no, it turns out that it's a "special" one-off livery for Melbourne to commemorate twenty years of their partnership with Mobil 1. Well, booooo. [Read More]

March 13, 2014 // 2 Comments

2014 McLaren Is (Not) Orange

As rumours swirled around that the end of their Vodafone title sponsorship and imminent parting of ways with Mercedes would mean a radical change in livery for McLaren, the Woking team unveiled their new MP4-29 this morning... [Read More]

January 24, 2014 // 6 Comments

Lucozade Gives You Wings?

Well, they've now done it for two races, so I think we can assume it wasn't just a one-off for Australia, and thus it's worth reporting: McLaren have made a change to their livery, replacing the usual Vodafone logo on the rear wing with that of Lucozade. Interesting. [Read More]

March 24, 2012 // 0 Comments

Ferrari and McLaren 2012: Old liveries on new cars

I was largely away from my computer during the launch-fest that was Thursday and Friday just gone, so let's rattle through everything now. To start with, I'll take a look at the two teams who've barely changed their liveries in the slightest... [Read More]

February 5, 2012 // 3 Comments

2011 Liveries: The Verdict!

Right, then. We’ve now seen all twelve of 2011’s Formula One liveries. I wanted to wait, before doing the usual summary post, until we’d seen them all running on track in testing – but frankly, from the looks of things we may not see the HRT in motion before Melbourne [Read More]

March 14, 2011 // 14 Comments

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