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TJ13 Commented:

"Mercedes began work on this project several years ago whereas Renault and Ferrari started more recently. So any expenditure made by Mercedes will seem larger than their counterparts but even so, if rumours are to be believed, the finalisation of the design was recent. Ross Brawn allegedly took a look at the design last September and instructed the team to ‘think outside the box"

September 2013 !!

Thus Honda should not have any problems with their PU on power or reliability. IMHO

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mclaren111 wrote:TJ13 Commented:

"Mercedes began work on this project several years ago whereas Renault and Ferrari started more recently. So any expenditure made by Mercedes will seem larger than their counterparts but even so, if rumours are to be believed, the finalisation of the design was recent. Ross Brawn allegedly took a look at the design last September and instructed the team to ‘think outside the box"

September 2013 !!

Thus Honda should not have any problems with their PU on power or reliability. IMHO
TJ13. What a reliable source. I doubt that Renault and Ferrari started their work that late... :roll: (TJ13 says recently in September 13 :roll: ) The sentece "Ross Brawn allegedly took a look at the design...." shows that this could be written by every fan-boy in this forum. FFS, there are more engineers at Merc than Brawn. Brawn is no engine expert... I suppose TJ13 thinks Adrian Newey was the only one to blame for RB's succes.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph ... 1360844370

Let's hope everything goes well. But Mclaren ssems to find their confidence back, which is great to see.
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Slightly OT, Mclaren shows off their P1 GTR, perhaps a tease of what next year's livery could look like?
https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/500637909310255104
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Would be really cool if they would go for at least some Orange in their Livery.
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Great article from AMUS about Mclaren-updates this season: from the new nose from Sepang to the new rear wing from Hockenheim.

Source: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 96678.html

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More of the same from EB:
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/3148 ... rovements/

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slimfitcasual wrote:Slightly OT, Mclaren shows off their P1 GTR, perhaps a tease of what next year's livery could look like?

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/500637909310255104
hmmmm with honda coming along and contributing most of the budget, I will be amazed if it isn't red and white again!
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Or it could be Silver/red or Dark grey/red.. since Honda's current logo is more on frosted Silver to dark grey.

AFAIK, the red and white livery of the 1990s was more for Marlboro than it was for Honda.

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akshat21 wrote:Or it could be Silver/red or Dark grey/red.. since Honda's current logo is more on frosted Silver to dark grey.

AFAIK, the red and white livery of the 1990s was more for Marlboro than it was for Honda.
Seeing as they had the red and white Marlboro livery from the mid 70s, running with both a Cosworth DFV and the TAG/Porsche Turbo engine before Honda came aboard, I would venture that the livery had nothing to do with Honda in the slightest. It is hardly as if Williams or Lotus ran red and white cars whilst they had the Honda powerplant in the 80s.
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gridwalker wrote:
akshat21 wrote:Or it could be Silver/red or Dark grey/red.. since Honda's current logo is more on frosted Silver to dark grey.

AFAIK, the red and white livery of the 1990s was more for Marlboro than it was for Honda.
Seeing as they had the red and white Marlboro livery from the mid 70s, running with both a Cosworth DFV and the TAG/Porsche Turbo engine before Honda came aboard, I would venture that the livery had nothing to do with Honda in the slightest. It is hardly as if Williams or Lotus ran red and white cars whilst they had the Honda powerplant in the 80s.
Indeed even the Honda F1 team in 2006-8 didn't run a white and red livery...yes there was some red in the Lucky Strike related livery, but not enough to call it red and white in my opinion...and the less said about the Earth Dreams liveries the better!!
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yeah, the red/white chevron livery was obviously for Marlboro. Now ferrari uses the last vestiges of Marlboro sponsorship, so there is exactly 0% chance McLaren will do white/red.

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Marlboro is not the only company which uses red and white, may be the red and white chevron.

Honda corporate colours are also red and white, so if mclaren/honda wants they could still use red and white, considering honda as their main sponsor (if JB and KM drive)

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Black, white and red? or another sponsor to dictate the style and colour of livery?
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Wouldn't the livery be dictated by the title sponsor?? If Honda did become the title sponsor, maybe we might have Honda colors, like mercedes have the silver arrows color or Ferrari Red..

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