Has it ever happened before that certain drivers ran test days in special liveries in F1 or is this a first?
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Yannick wrote:Simona De Silvestro's recent test for Sauber had her running a car that was painted in her personal sponsor's colors (Areva, one of the largest worldwide companies of the nuclear industry, and its marketing campaign that appears in a somewhat dubious light after the events that are known in Japan as 3/11).
Has it ever happened before that certain drivers ran test days in special liveries in F1 or is this a first?
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good_Ralf wrote:Sometimes teams run different liveries in pre-season testing e.g. BAR had a black livery instead of white in 2003-4 but I can't think of when personal sponsors filled a driver's test car.
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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:Mclaren have run a pure orange car in testing before
Biscione wrote:
This thing...well frankly, I don't know what it is. It's like a mishmash of the FW20 and FW21. I think maybe an FW20 with some updates for 1999, run as a test mule for the incoming BMW engines. Works driver Joerg Mueller is at the wheel.
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Ataxia wrote:Biscione wrote:
This thing...well frankly, I don't know what it is. It's like a mishmash of the FW20 and FW21. I think maybe an FW20 with some updates for 1999, run as a test mule for the incoming BMW engines. Works driver Joerg Mueller is at the wheel.
My second ever F1 Racing magazine was the March 2000 edition. I recall that there was a picture of this car being driven by Ralf Schumacher, placed in his column which he had at the time. Since this was a season preview edition, the actual photos of the car appeared on the Williams run-down, and I remember being incredibly disappointed that the FW22 didn't have that livery.
It was either because I was upset about the more corporate outlook of the real livery, or I just liked the colour blue. I was six, you decide.
Turbogirl wrote:Okay, not really on-topic here, but is anybody else as happy as me, that THIS certain pairing never materialized? The AP03 would have ruined her career even more than a Sauber with horrible tyre wear could...
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dr-baker wrote:
Now that was a beautiful livery...
Wallio wrote:dr-baker wrote:
Now that was a beautiful livery...
It really was. It shows what a pretty car the Simtek was. The awful MTV livery ruined the lines on a very sexy machine.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
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dinizintheoven wrote:Turbogirl wrote:Okay, not really on-topic here, but is anybody else as happy as me, that THIS certain pairing never materialized? The AP03 would have ruined her career even more than a Sauber with horrible tyre wear could...
...though the publicity from being an 11-year-old F1 driver (at the time) would surely have offset that!
AdrianSutil wrote:I seem to remember Super Aguri and before them, Toyota, had different liveries when testing in their debut season. can't be bothered to find any pictures and upload them
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Turbogirl wrote:dinizintheoven wrote:Turbogirl wrote:Okay, not really on-topic here, but is anybody else as happy as me, that THIS certain pairing never materialized? The AP03 would have ruined her career even more than a Sauber with horrible tyre wear could...
...though the publicity from being an 11-year-old F1 driver (at the time) would surely have offset that!
Strange, no one noticed the joke earlier.Maybe I should have posted the photo in the "Caption this!" thread instead... (or my jokes simply aren't funny, whatever comes first).
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AndreaModa wrote:I don't think the nose is quite right for it to be a Simtek - it looks like it tapers too much.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
AndreaModa wrote:Some more test liveries from my own collection:
Frentzen in a dark blue and silver winged Sauber in 1995:
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Ataxia wrote:AndreaModa wrote:I don't think the nose is quite right for it to be a Simtek - it looks like it tapers too much.
I cheated with a little bit of Wikipedia, but it suggest that the car on the cover was "provided by Simtek". So, that could mean it was either the S941 or the S921 that Nick Wirth sold to Andrea Sassetti's men.
So, I've come to my conclusion from the shape of the air intake; the Moda had a more triangular intake than the Simtek, and the front wing in all the photos I can see has a top plane with a reduced angle of attack. Plus, there's the high frontal suspension geometry to boot...whether I'm right or not, I dunno, I'm just calling it as I see it...
takagi_for_the_win wrote:Ataxia wrote:AndreaModa wrote:I don't think the nose is quite right for it to be a Simtek - it looks like it tapers too much.
I cheated with a little bit of Wikipedia, but it suggest that the car on the cover was "provided by Simtek". So, that could mean it was either the S941 or the S921 that Nick Wirth sold to Andrea Sassetti's men.
So, I've come to my conclusion from the shape of the air intake; the Moda had a more triangular intake than the Simtek, and the front wing in all the photos I can see has a top plane with a reduced angle of attack. Plus, there's the high frontal suspension geometry to boot...whether I'm right or not, I dunno, I'm just calling it as I see it...
Maybe it was an early test hack that was obsoleted by the S941; a sort of S931 for testing purposes if you will?
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...