2016 Fantasy Liveries topic

[cmF1]

Tbh though I wouldn't take anything BBC Sport F1 report on seriously.

[Joseki]

Their Twitter account spent much of last year's pre season hinting at red and white, so either they just do this stuff for attention, or they have no idea what the race team is actually up to...

There were lots of people hashtagging blue Monday. It's nothing to do about the livery, but to do with the 'most depressing day of the year'. The 3rd Monday in January.

Their Twitter had this:

https://twitter.com/mclarenf1/status/689047420957765632

Which the BBC reported as 'hinting at a new livery' yesterday... I get the blue being Blue Monday, no idea what the Red relates to!

They were trolling Ferrari for the stupid spam competition.

[Hail22]

Apparently this is Renault' 2016 livery (via F1 racing mag February edition):

Edit: As stated below, this is F1 racing mags interpretation of the 2016 Renault livery, not the official Renault livery.





Fan made Williams Martini livery via Motorsport forums:





Fan made Williams Martini livery via Reddit:

[cmF1]

The Renault one is an assumed livery by one of the magazines graphic designers.

[cmF1]

Thanks for the vote down for 'being incorrect', but even the team themselves acknowledge it as NOT the actual livery, and the magazine themselves say it's not the livery either.

[Facts Only]

Have an upvote for taking the time to put someone in their place, made me chuckle.

I wouldnt get to hung up on it though, its pretty meaningless and is often just a rating of how much popularist flumpf people can post.

F1 is Rubbish! +1
And Pirelli/Jean Todt/Mercedes/Seb Vettel made it that way! +5
Bernie Ecclestone is Evil +10
McLarens should be Orange... or Red and White +20

And yes I do appreciate the irony of me saying that.

On the liveries topic I hope (as I do every year) that we get a bit more colour and a bit less grey/silver.

[Hail22]

Factsonly Re Colour:

As much as myself like you and many others agree that the addition of more colour to the liveries would be fantastic.

My only fear is that when you have large corporations sponsoring teams, they have an influence on how the livery is designed in order to get the best "brand exposure" from their mobile marketing billboards (referring to Formula 1 vehicles as mobile billboards is subjective in the least from my point of view).

I'm holding out for the following to shine with their liveries this season:

1. HAAS
2. Renault
3. Force Inidia
4. Mclaren (please lord add some colour to this 2015 ugly duckling)

cmF1: thanks for adding facts to my post, as you can appreciate sometimes I do not have the luxury to promptly fix errors.

[FrukostScones]

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[ScottB]

Renault, or their still Lotus named Twitter account anyway, seem to be running a competition for livery suggestions, if anyone fancies taking a crack at it...

[Hail22]

Renault, or their still Lotus named Twitter account anyway, seem to be running a competition for livery suggestions, if anyone fancies taking a crack at it...

Or the mods / owner could use F1technicals twitter account to link the 2016 Fantasy livery topic / thread to Renault for them to take a look at the plethora of liveries we've all shared / linked?

[turbof1]

Renault, or their still Lotus named Twitter account anyway, seem to be running a competition for livery suggestions, if anyone fancies taking a crack at it...

Or the mods / owner could use F1technicals twitter account to link the 2016 Fantasy livery topic / thread to Renault for them to take a look at the plethora of liveries we've all shared / linked?

Good idea. I'll forward it to Steven.

[VFC_Cipher]

Interesting article that goes into detail about how a livery gets designed and who gets say so in what goes where, what color (colour) it is, and how big it is.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/how-a-rac ... 1752512826

[ScottB]

Interesting article that goes into detail about how a livery gets designed and who gets say so in what goes where, what color (colour) it is, and how big it is.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/how-a-rac ... 1752512826

Very interesting!

Speaking as designer, though not a livery one (yet anyway), it's all too easy for others on the outside of a project to say x or y should be different, whether it's F1 livery designs, websites (most portfolio sites are packed with redesign concepts for every major site under the sun), iPhones or whatever.

Problem is, without context, without knowing what the brief was, what the requirements were, what restrictions the designer(s) were under, it's hard to say for sure if a better solution was achievable, or not. 'Bad' design is not always the fault of the design team involved. I can recall a number of occasions when clients have insisted on particularly daft ideas inspite of my advice, so I'm sure the same is possible with livery design. Actually, I bet it's a nightmare! Internal creative sign off, plus having to deal with marketing managers and the like from each of the sponsors... It's a wonder we get decent looking liveries at all!

[Writinglife]

Interesting article that goes into detail about how a livery gets designed and who gets say so in what goes where, what color (colour) it is, and how big it is.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/how-a-rac ... 1752512826

Now that's an interesting article. Thank you

[VFC_Cipher]

YES! I have finally contributed in a meaningful way around here.