SuperAguri wrote:I am looking forward to seeing it on the grid, hopefully they will continue the numbering scheme too and be in British racing green and not a blue or white colour...
It's a departure from blandness anyway. We'd be hypocrites if we criticised this car for being different to the corporate silver/red/blue/white of all the other cars.
It's a departure from blandness anyway. We'd be hypocrites if we criticised this car for being different to the corporate silver/red/blue/white of all the other cars.
I hope they use that. I think it's epic.
But this is so anti corporate its terrible. Why pink Malaysia? Why?
CoopsII wrote:On occasion I have ventured into the PMM forum but beat a hasty retreat soon after as it resembles some sort of bad acid trip in there
shinji wrote:It's a departure from blandness anyway. We'd be hypocrites if we criticised this car for being different to the corporate silver/red/blue/white of all the other cars.
I hope they use that. I think it's epic.
Actually, we'd be hypocrites if we DIDN'T criticize it. See: "Honda-- Earth Car"
Being a big fan of the old Lotus team, I would actually like it if this incarnation of Lotus used its Malaysian identity. It's owned by a Malaysian company, Proton, and I'd quite frankly like to see it embrace all things Malaysian. Including a return of Alex Yoong to the cockpit.
Also, do not bash pink, remember the Pacific with its pink highlights? Marvelous.
I don't like the design of the livery but I do like the colors used. It just needs to be cleaned up a bit and then it'll be a beauty. I say this with my (somewhat) expertise with painting skins for a Nascar game which include IRL cars. :X
Also, the first Honda earth car was pretty neat. The 2008 Earth car looked like crap.
SuperAguri wrote:Although no ones asked the question if the new Lotus team get zero points and pull out in the first year would they be a reject team?
That's something I'm wondering about, along with the question: If Lola were to make a return and actually manage to score enough points to invalidate them as a reject team, would they be counted as a separate entry from Mastercard Lola for the purposes of rejectdom? Because it would be hilarious and completely absurd if this Lola team managed to remove one of the most farcical entries in the annals of rejectdom by actually being good this time around.
I'm going to guess that they would be considered separate entries, though.
Lola already had plenty of points before 1997 (they had a 2nd place courtesy of John Surtees way back in 1962) so the new Lotus would likely be counted as a separate entity in the same way.
Actually, with that colour scheme, all you need is to get rid of the yellow and you'll be left with pink and blue and shades of Brabham in 1992. Bring back Eric van de Poele ...
rffp wrote:Well, speaking of wheelie bins, they could always try to sign Roberto Moreno, this is the kind of team that the legend would always want to race for!
SuperAguri wrote:I am looking forward to seeing it on the grid, hopefully they will continue the numbering scheme too and be in British racing green and not a blue or white colour...
It's not going to look like that. It's just a concept; it's likely the livery will be determined by the sponsors. I'm picking Petronas as a definite one, since they're Malaysian-owned and get backing from the government the way Proton/Lotus do. Petronas' colours are grey, but they've shown a willingness to appear in a team's colours before; they're white on the BMWs.
Given that Malaysia's national racing colours are yellow and white and that Lotus's company colours are yellow and green with a little bit of white, I suspect we could see those appearing as the base colours next season. It'd kind of look like the old Camel-Lotus, but with green instead of blue. I think it could work if done the right way.
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
SuperAguri wrote:I am looking forward to seeing it on the grid, hopefully they will continue the numbering scheme too and be in British racing green and not a blue or white colour...
"will you stop him playing tennis then?", referring to Montoya's famous shoulder injury, to which Whitmarsh replied "well, it's very difficult to play tennis on a motorbike"
That is one of the strangest looking color schemes that I've ever seen, it looks like a room where somebody couldn't decide what color to paint the space so they just went down to Canadian Tire and bought a bunch of different pastel colors then just threw paint at the walls.
I think the actual colour is yellow, but because they will be so much slower than the other cars, their spectrum will be distorted by Doppler-shift and they will appear just like that...
So they're clearly showing their reject-ness already by presenting a car design that's already illegal. I hope they know they can run slicks now right? This is going to be great...
watka wrote:The Lotus team can't do much worse than Proton's BTCC effort, they were terrible.
Get Fairuz Fauzy in the other seat alongside Yoong. Or Ralph Firman, because he's from Norwich.
Don't diss Proton too much in international motorsport. They're doing not too badly in the IRC. However, I'm all for Fauzy- I think he could be a surprise.
You do realise that model was made about a year ago, and so pre-dates this project?
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
Mister Fungus wrote:It reminds me of the First World Hotel in Malaysia.
They have a very good business plan - the best place to stay would be inside that particular hotel, so that you never have to look at it, they're going to make millions!
Team Principal Tony Fernandes sounds like he was forced into the position...he has already said he wants to quit! Maybe he knows the team is doomed? Oh, and Lotus are announcing their drivers at the end of next month.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Rumour has it that they'll get Fairuz Fauzy. He was in GP2 Asia and A1GP last year and is now in the Renault World Series. He was one of Spyker's test drivers
Henrique wrote:Rumour has it that they'll get Fairuz Fauzy. He was in GP2 Asia and A1GP last year and is now in the Renault World Series. He was one of Spyker's test drivers
Henrique wrote:Rumour has it that they'll get Fairuz Fauzy. He was in GP2 Asia and A1GP last year and is now in the Renault World Series. He was one of Spyker's test drivers
Henrique wrote:Rumour has it that they'll get Fairuz Fauzy. He was in GP2 Asia and A1GP last year and is now in the Renault World Series. He was one of Spyker's test drivers
woooo!
my god what a driver.
next Schumacher?
Next Ralf Schumacher, maybe. Fauzy was said to be out of his depth in British F3; his successes in GP2 Asia were a by product of a grid that experiecned a high rate of driver turnover (teams were - and still are - encouraged to run at least one driver who does not hold a passport from Westrn Europe) and the fact that GP2 operates on a reverse top eight for sprint races, where the points positions from the feature race are reversed. Fazuy finished eighth in the feature on the three occasions he won a sprint race, and so he had taken pole be default in the sprint.
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
kostas22 wrote:Team Principal Tony Fernandes sounds like he was forced into the position...he has already said he wants to quit! Maybe he knows the team is doomed? Oh, and Lotus are announcing their drivers at the end of next month.
Really? Not good, he knows he's on to a loser based on that car design and colour scheme.
JV is a strong possibility, and Ralf will be a free agent after Norbert Haug kicks his ass out of AMG at the end of this season for being crap. I think Nick is staying put...so Trulli, JV and Ralf are 3 strong contenders under that criteria. Or, how about Luca Badoer?
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
I don't think Faruz Faiuzy is that bad, he is currently 7th in WSR, and just today he finished 2nd in the race where he overtook - during the race - 3 or 4 drivers including Alguersuari.
Mister Fungus wrote:I don't think Faruz Faiuzy is that bad, he is currently 7th in WSR, and just today he finished 2nd in the race where he overtook - during the race - 3 or 4 drivers including Alguersuari.
The thing is, he's competing against drivers who are mainly 4 or 5 years younger than him. It didn't hurt Timo Glock though.
Also, I noticed that the current leader of WSR is one Bertrand Baguette.
Well as a friend of Lotus I won't be unhappy unless they come up with some interpretation of the rules that enables them to flog everyone, but gets them banned in practice
