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Because Honda claims to include pixel sized intitials of contributors to their cause on the earth livery of their F1 cars, I assume the cars aren't painted.
Welcome to the Forum dp35. Your right of course - it isn't painted on - basically it's a decal - well probably several - graphics on a thin layer of plastic with an adhesive backing - look through the Forum index - there have been several discussions - survey the article section - also the developement section and you have 3 outstanding areas for research
If you go onto Honda's website there is a video showing you exactly how they print and apply the decals, rather interesting really. Basically they use a huge inkjet printer and a hair dryer lol.
BTW, I got an email from Honda today saying that my name was on their car, in size 4 print and that it is visible to the naked eye close up. This is the first time they have done this (for the French Grand Prix)
Steve Wilson wrote:BTW, I got an email from Honda today saying that my name was on their car, in size 4 print and that it is visible to the naked eye close up. This is the first time they have done this (for the French Grand Prix)
We have exciting news! Your name will be on the Earth Cars at this weekend’s Grand Prix in France.
Your name will be in 4pt so it’s clearly visible with the naked eye close up, but our clever designers have applied them in such a way that our beautiful artwork still looks the same from a distance.
We have put all the names in columns and like to call it our ‘Roll Call of Environmental Honour’.
In the last few weeks we have made some changes to myearthdream. The biggest change is that we have decided to make donations to the myearthdream Trust optional. The main aim of this is to allow children to make pledges and be part of the project without having to use a credit card, but it also allows us to run competitions all over the world to get more people involved in saving CO2 and saving the planet.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
if you download speed's coverage of the U.S GP they had a whole 8 minute segment on how the decals were applied to the honda car..really interesting. Mostly all Nascar COT cars used Decals compared to painting them
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In reference to the decals, I was walking through the pitlane in Canada after the race finished back in 2005 and I got a couple of shots of one crew memeber removing the 'Team Spirit' decals with some sort of spray. I'll try to post that photo shortly
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