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22 Oct 2005, 05:32 (Ref:1440277)
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Best Paint Scheme
Ok a pretty pointless thread but which car had the best paint scheme this year... Id have to say Phillipes car in Australia looks pretty sharp.
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22 Oct 2005, 09:30 (Ref:1440431)
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Team Australia, no doubt... though it could be even better.
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22 Oct 2005, 13:01 (Ref:1440555)
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I would second Nelson's car as well. The driver is performing pretty well too.
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A torrential afternoon practice session in Watkins Glen saw Villeneuve out-qualify everyone. By 11 seconds.Scheckter stated: "I scared myself rigid that day, I thought I had to be quickest. Then I saw Gilles's time and - I still don't really understand how it was possible. Eleven seconds !" |
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22 Oct 2005, 14:40 (Ref:1440628)
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I still like the scheme that Mario haberfeld tested with before the season started the one with the black and the brazilian flag elements.
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22 Oct 2005, 15:50 (Ref:1440653)
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Frankly, I'm not a fan of any of the liveries on the current grid. None of them look very sharp, clean, or modern. Which I suppose is a side effect of not having a major sponsor.
In particular, I think the Newman Haas cars don't really have a set of championship car liveries. I found these while browsing that 'other' Champ Car forum...: http://www.leegriffincreative.com/nh1.jpg http://www.leegriffincreative.com/nh2.jpg http://www.leegriffincreative.com/nh3.jpg IMO, someone should send those in to Newman-Haas. |
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23 Oct 2005, 16:11 (Ref:1441367)
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Very true about Newman-Haas. There's too much white on those cars.
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23 Oct 2005, 16:18 (Ref:1441375)
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Upon reflection I can't think of a Newman-Haas livery I have ever liked. Maybe the K-mart Blue light special! I guess looking good is secondary when your the quickest.
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23 Oct 2005, 16:37 (Ref:1441382)
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I like Christiano's 2002 Chevron but thats about it as NHR cars that i have liked go.
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23 Oct 2005, 21:44 (Ref:1441580)
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Andretti's black car was a winner, though it had thousands of logos. It looked intimidating, like the 3 in NASCAR.
And the Centrix livery used at Indy this year was quite good, though it did have a lot of white, too. |
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24 Oct 2005, 00:00 (Ref:1441646)
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Best Newman-Haas livery, yes, is their IRL livery! I'd go with the deep red Budweiser livery of Fittipaldi if I had to pick one at all.
As for Champcar this year, Team Australia's is good...though I still preferred the bad colour version that someone posted at the beginning of the year that made it look more turquoise & butter coloured. The best livery though, still Forsythe Racing in my opinion...have to love those blues! |
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24 Oct 2005, 01:06 (Ref:1441682)
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Not so much a livery but back in the days of Toyota and Honda i liked they way toyota had fitted something in the wheels that made the toyota name and logo appear in the wheel trim when the brake disc's glowed hot.
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24 Oct 2005, 01:46 (Ref:1441700)
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24 Oct 2005, 07:28 (Ref:1441814)
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My favorite colors this year were those on Jimmy Vasser's machine. Those reds and blacks really looked sharp.
My all-time favorite has to be the Ganassi Target cars that Vasser, Zanardi, and Montoya drove. I loved that yellow lightning accent those cars had! StickShift, those were great pictures. It really puzzles me why McDonalds did not put the 'I'm Lovin' It' slogan on Sebastian's car. It would make a lot of sense! |
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24 Oct 2005, 13:21 (Ref:1442148)
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24 Oct 2005, 16:36 (Ref:1442316)
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24 Oct 2005, 23:14 (Ref:1442642)
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Actually those were little LED lights, not the actual brake rotor heating up
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24 Oct 2005, 23:14 (Ref:1442643)
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This year, I think Glock's car stands out as being my favourite.....
But I still have a soft spot for PKV's 2004 livery......MAN, that was a cool looking car! |
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24 Oct 2005, 23:51 (Ref:1442654)
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24 Oct 2005, 23:59 (Ref:1442657)
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Plain and rather boring, but I always liked the Penske Marlboros.
Servia drove a pretty sharp-looking silver and black machine with red highlights one year not long ago, and Walker had some cool Valvoline cars for deFerran and Gordon. There were others, but they evade my memory at the moment... |
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25 Oct 2005, 00:43 (Ref:1442671)
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I always liked the AAR 997 Eagle's livery. The eagle head on the nose and the stars and stripes on the sidepods looked quite nice.
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A torrential afternoon practice session in Watkins Glen saw Villeneuve out-qualify everyone. By 11 seconds.Scheckter stated: "I scared myself rigid that day, I thought I had to be quickest. Then I saw Gilles's time and - I still don't really understand how it was possible. Eleven seconds !" |
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25 Oct 2005, 05:12 (Ref:1442758)
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I loved Servia's fluoro yellow Telefonica PPI Motorsports car.
And Dixon's one-off Coors Ganassi car in Denver was trick. |
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25 Oct 2005, 05:43 (Ref:1442765)
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LED's huh? Man Toyota had too much time on their hands! It was totally pointless but different certainly!
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25 Oct 2005, 15:00 (Ref:1443123)
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Oriol's Telefonica mobile machine... http://www.motorsport.com/photos/car...gp-rk-0027.jpg
and Oriol's Sigma Autosport car... http://www.motorsport.com/photos/car...mw-bk-0124.jpg But surely Darren Manning's 2003 Walker Racing Reynard is one of the best (Even if it could have been a Valvoline livery easily) http://www.motorsport.com/photos/car...tl-eg-0612.jpg |
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25 Oct 2005, 15:09 (Ref:1443132)
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Those lit rims were pretty fragile and expensive, I understand. They never ran them under race conditions AFAIK, but would trot them out for quallies and practice sometimes. And you'll notice that only the guys who could keep the car off the walls got to run them!
I liked the Telefonica car too, except that it was murder to try and give a car colour over the landline (is it yellow/green/what?). I used to just call it "neon". Other, less complimentary, terms were occasionally used -- remember, this was back in the days when Servia didn't enjoy the car control he seems to have now. I also miss the "chili pepper" Herdez cars. If we could expand this thread to "ugliest car" my votes would go either to the current Servia car (at least they could pick a better colour of purple) or that dreadful burgundy and cream job that da Matta drove a couple of years ago. Yechh. keke Last edited by racerkeke; 25 Oct 2005 at 15:12. Reason: cat-induced typos |
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25 Oct 2005, 17:41 (Ref:1443223)
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Hollywood PacWest car of Gugelmin is my all time favourite if we're not looking just at this year. The Blue Kool 2002 of Dario is a close 2nd.
http://www.champcars.net/gallery/gal...light_big.html (While I remember it, how about this for a McDonalds livery!) http://www.theautochannel.com/callah...aan_tony01.jpg |
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