2017 Force India F1 Team - Mercedes

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FAAAAABULOUUUSSSS :D

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RS200E wrote:Looks good. Only 15 - 20 mil for a main livery sponsor though?
Ron Dennis doesn't like it either, that's why he's thrown off potential sponsors.
But that's the rate for the smaller teams really, i think Williams is around that with Martini.

I dislike that the drivers are being forced to change, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
https://twitter.com/ForceIndiaF1/status ... 5804774400

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I just think this colour looks washed out... would like more like that Brabham, Damon Hill was driving... but it is sponsor's colour so...

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My god, too many conditions attached with this deal. I hope they don't force the drivers to wear pink dresses for media attraction and publicity. :D

BWT has already got what they wanted i.e. media & public attention, wonderful strategy by them. But will this affect the image of Force India ? #-o

Even Hulk is laughing at the car, he just tweeted, this. https://twitter.com/HulkHulkenberg/stat ... 0823598080

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Pink Helmets of Sergio and Esteban.... ha! Always room for a good double entendre.

I think it looks ace, I've been fed up of the dreary colour schemes for years.
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^this
erlik wrote:I just think this colour looks washed out...
Apart from this rose being the company's colour I think with how the cameras are set up a very intense pink could look too red in certain light conditions potentially not setting it apart enough from Ferrari.

Even if i don't really like the piggy colour i welcome a greater variety in liveries - now we don't have a duplicate main colour.

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Pink helmets... One step too far if you ask me.

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I like it! Reminds me of the Pink Pig:

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Manjhi wrote:My god, too many conditions attached with this deal. I hope they don't force the drivers to wear pink dresses for media attraction and publicity. :D

BWT has already got what they wanted i.e. media & public attention, wonderful strategy by them. But will this affect the image of Force India ? #-o

Even Hulk is laughing at the car, he just tweeted, this.
https://twitter.com/HulkHulkenberg/stat ... 0823598080
I think the pink will have far less impact on their 'image' than the owners business dealings back in India.

Seems the Hulk is more than happy to burn the FI bridge! Interesting since they are the ones who gave him a life line after Williams dropped him...
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Mr Brooksy wrote:
Manjhi wrote:My god, too many conditions attached with this deal. I hope they don't force the drivers to wear pink dresses for media attraction and publicity. :D

BWT has already got what they wanted i.e. media & public attention, wonderful strategy by them. But will this affect the image of Force India ? #-o

Even Hulk is laughing at the car, he just tweeted, this.
https://twitter.com/HulkHulkenberg/stat ... 0823598080
I think the pink will have far less impact on their 'image' than the owners business dealings back in India.

Seems the Hulk is more than happy to burn the FI bridge! Interesting since they are the ones who gave him a life line after Williams dropped him...

And SFi replied!
https://twitter.com/ForceIndiaF1/status ... 6156974080

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Pink livery worth $20m to Force India - report

http://www.onestopstrategy.com/article/ ... eport.html

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raksf1 wrote:Pink livery worth $20m to Force India - report

http://www.onestopstrategy.com/article/ ... eport.html
Won't be surprised if it' even slightly more than that considering that the logos are on the sidepods and the driver helmets are turning pink too.
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FrukostScones wrote:
Manoah2u wrote:i absolutely hate this to the guts.

really do.
why?
is that a question?
soft pastel pink, with a blue logo?

the color scheme of Force India looked fantastic, though i really missed the green as present as it used to be before.

this looked great

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and i understand that nothing is forever, but this color scheme looks absolutely hideous.
it's eye-scorching hideous and even worse than the HRT livery with orange, white and gold.

I was actually hoping since Perez went to Force India that Carlos Slim's influence would be noted stronger and we'd get either a good amount of Telmex present or more colorful Mexican influence, which isn't far off from Force India's original white-green-orange colors, but it would be red-green-white instead.

but despite all the millions that carlos slim has, we end up with the millions of a german water purification / supply company that defines the livery of the car, and it is pastel pink with blue, and then the blue isn't even pastel.
it's as bad as it can be colorwise. I think Button's pink helmet color would actually even look better than this, but still,
pink in f1?

the color most missed in F1 is green, and we get pink instead.

i wasn't particularly fond of this:

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but it looks better than the rendering we have gotten so far.

this doesn't look that bad either:

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neither does this per se

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and even pink pastel doesnt neccesarily has to look bad, if executed right

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but this

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to me looks absolutely distasteful.

i hope the actualy livery looks better, but i'm afraid it wont'.

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this would be slightly better atleast, but it's not the hue of pink that the company has, so forget that.

imagine that, from being so close to signing a deal with Aston Martin, and potentially having a british racing green
or gulf-liveried Aston Martin F1 team to a hideous pink BWT Force India F1 team.
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No problem with pink livery. In fact it will bring a lot of attention. And the drivers doesn't care of the color if it is fast...
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it is great
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