Vodafone McLaren Team 2012

Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:33 am

Seems to be a really good genuine chemistry now between Hamilton and Button.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:31 am

Has anybody else screaming at the screen (not literally) at all the horrible strategy calls Mclaren have been making. By and large they seem to be awful at making straight forward decisions. Case in point Button today in Hungaroring... seriously any one could have seen that pitting him was the wrong thing to do and they nearly cocked it up for Hamilton as well. I don't know how many times they were on Plan A, then Plan B, then Plan A, then Plan B, only to revert back to Plan A.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:12 am

What's going on with McLaren's sponsorships these days?

Aigo's gone, and the reduced presence of both Vodafone and Johnnie Walker suggest reduced commitments. Does anyone have any information one way or the other?

Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:50 am

bhallg2k wrote:What's going on with McLaren's sponsorships these days?

Aigo's gone, and the reduced presence of both Vodafone and Johnnie Walker suggest reduced commitments. Does anyone have any information one way or the other?

Aiqo sponsorship was not renewed. Johnnie walker (Liquor) advertisement i blieve is banned in mid-eastern countries. Not sure of Hungary. I hope they get sponsorship for the space formerly used by aiqo. Also could it be they replaced the lucozade signage with maximuscle, paving a way for the rumored coke sponsorship?

Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:33 am

Coke and Jonny Walker.... could be the perfect mix?

Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:55 am

shotzski wrote:
bhallg2k wrote:What's going on with McLaren's sponsorships these days?

Aigo's gone, and the reduced presence of both Vodafone and Johnnie Walker suggest reduced commitments. Does anyone have any information one way or the other?

Aiqo sponsorship was not renewed. Johnnie walker (Liquor) advertisement i blieve is banned in mid-eastern countries. Not sure of Hungary. I hope they get sponsorship for the space formerly used by aiqo. Also could it be they replaced the lucozade signage with maximuscle, paving a way for the rumored coke sponsorship?

The maximuscle and Lucozade advertising is the same - because they're both under Glaxo-Smith Kline.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:29 am

Yes, and Johnnie Walker has been relegated to the drivers' visors and fire suits, as they were in Hungary, all year.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:38 am

Mclaren sell road cars to fund their racing. Red bull sell cans of pop.. Don't worry about mclarens funding. I've seen Less sponsorship on the car, have to admit though, when Alonso joined in '07 their was alot of sponsorship on the car and for the next 2 seasons it was a really fast car- coincidence or what?

Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:35 am

CjC wrote:Mclaren sell road cars to fund their racing. Red bull sell cans of pop.. Don't worry about mclarens funding. I've seen Less sponsorship on the car, have to admit though, when Alonso joined in '07 their was alot of sponsorship on the car and for the next 2 seasons it was a really fast car- coincidence or what?

Coïncidence. Don't forget McLaren had to pay up 100 million for spygate. I think that would be more then the sponsoring combined. They were still quick in 2008.

Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:01 pm

CjC wrote:Mclaren sell road cars to fund their racing. Red bull sell cans of pop.. Don't worry about mclarens funding.

which means what?

from what i can find
4.631 billion cans of Red Bull were sold worldwide in 2011, im sure mclaren sold far less cars (in fact they prob haven't made an overall profit on the MP4-12C yet due to the years of R & D prior to release - just a guess)

Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:56 pm

CjC wrote:Mclaren sell road cars to fund their racing. Red bull sell cans of pop.. Don't worry about mclarens funding. I've seen Less sponsorship on the car, have to admit though, when Alonso joined in '07 their was alot of sponsorship on the car and for the next 2 seasons it was a really fast car- coincidence or what?

McLaren has only produced 2 road cars.

They raced for many years without the production of any road car to fund their racing.

Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:04 pm

Three road cars.. the Mclaren Mercedes SLR...

But anyway.. With a technical centre like that they must be making money by other means that just road car and sponsorships.

Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:18 pm

I believe that at least some of the other divisions of McLaren, and perhaps all, pay McLaren Racing for the use of the name - sort of like a sponsorship. At least that was mentioned as part of the road car division's financial relationship.

Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:28 pm

n smikle wrote:Three road cars.. the Mclaren Mercedes SLR...

But anyway.. With a technical centre like that they must be making money by other means that just road car and sponsorships.

Yes. I mean I think they are making some profit from the ECUs right? And they will of course develop technology which they can sell. IMO, McLaren is more a technology enterprise then a real car manufacturer.

Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:23 pm

n smikle wrote:Three road cars.. the Mclaren Mercedes SLR...

But anyway.. With a technical centre like that they must be making money by other means that just road car and sponsorships.

I don't consider the SLR since it was a joint venture.

Not really the same as designing your own car from the ground up and building it yourself like MP4-12C.

A lot of the investment in McLaren comes from the Middle East, so that's where a lot of their money comes from.

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