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It looks wrong... not sure but its not quite a low nose indy / 1995 Ferrari or quite a high nose...
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It might be something to do with the fact that Sheikh Makhtoum specified a certain 'look' for the car, before serious engineering began. There's an element of mutton dressed as lamb about them, the lines have an artificial feel, rather than wind tunnel sculpted.
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yeah, he stipulated certain things like fins and a futuristic look. I actually did some designs for this on behalf of "another manufacture" who was putting in to tender along with Lola. In the end both designs (they guy who did the actual styling was actually in my year at Uni - small world) were quite similar. Low profile tyres seem to have dissapeared, they were very keen on them, although knew they wouldnt work
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It's a pity they didn't take a '97 F1 car (wide track/slicks) and simply aim at that look. eg Ferrari or McLaren.
Even the Nissan World Series Dallara is a better looking more balanced looking car...or the Formula Nippon Reynards from 99-2000. I guess that wouldn't have distinguished the car enough from other series. Pity... |
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Hum. I do think it's a bit of a shame they're not using the good old "official" car colours...
Though they would probably have to invent a few for nations new to motorsport - and for new countries too. Chile's is the craziest instruction. And so is Czechoslovakia - presumably each balkanised former Czech state could have one part of their old colours! And it sounds like Half-Nelson Piquet was racing for Egypt last year. And Sweden are even sillier. I've found this list, if anyone's interested..., Country - Car Colours - Number Colours Argentina - car:blue with black bonnet - numbers: red on white Belgium - car: yellow - numbers: black Brazil - car: light-yellow & green - numbers: black Bulgaria - car: green with white bonnet - numbers: red on white Chile - car: red with blue bonnet & white rear end - numbers: half blue and half red on white or entirely red Czechoslovakia - car: white with blue and white bonnet and red rear end - numbers: blue Egypt - car: light-lilac - numbers: red on white Finland - car: black - numbers: blue on white (explains why Finns gravitate to McLaren) France - car: blue - numbers: white Germany - car: white (yes, white not silver!) - numbers: red Great Britain - car: green - numbers: white Hungary - car: white with red bonnet and green rear end - numbers: black Ireland - car: green with horizontal orange stripe - numbers: white Italy - car: red - numbers: white Luxembourg - car: grey - numbers: white on red Monaco - car: white with horizontal red stripe - numbers: black on white Netherlands - car: orange - numbers: white Poland - car: white - numbers: red Romania - car: navy blue with red rear end - numbers: yellow Spain - car: red with yellow bonnet - numbers: black on yellow/white on red Sweden - car: lower part: blue, upper part: yellow with 3 yellow stripes on the bonnet - numbers: white Switzerland - car: red with white bonnet - numbers: black Thailand - car: light-blue with light blue wheels and horizontal yellow stripe - numbers: white on blue USA - car: white with blue rear end - numbers: blue on white |
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This is the most difinitive list I've seen:
http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/mi...ours.php?db=ct Maybe an "image" column would help. There are some good pics around on the net if you search around. My favourite is without a doubt the USA colours, the blue/white NART Ferrari was an absolute classic I for one would have much prefered if the national racing colours were used, opportunity missed IMO. Is there a side-on orthographic view of the A1GP car somewhere? With that we could render it with national colours and our own ideas! |
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The trouble is this series is trying with it's world cup approach no doubt to get people who wouldn't normally watch racing interested. Most other sports have a world cup of some sort that has countries competing with each other, so this format is a lot closer to what people normally understand by a 'world' championship.
But these new viewers aren't going to know anything at all about national racing colours, nor will they want to have to learn them. I think its best if they can associate the UK car for instance with an England football shirt or something. |
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why not drap a flag over the cars, and paint it as such?
racing for holland on the other hand does wonderful liveries with the proper Colors |
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I think its funny that that car has been painted so many times, id hate to be the country that ends up with a 10kilo overweight car.
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wait...there is only one prototype running around for all these shows?
it looks as if they are gonna need about 100 cars by the 'entry list' so far, once again the best laid plans |
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there are two at the moment, one keeps being repainted and the other is testing and developing
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I'm not sure football teams are a good analogy - they seem to use one of 4 different strips depending on the manager's mood on the day.
I remember the Scottish Rugby Union tried some different reverse strips a few years ago but very quickly reverted back to white. The orange one especially was awful - and not in the least bit Scottish! I know down here at least there'd be a lynch mob of some sort set up if our car was not black. Likewise the Aussie car just wouldn't look Aussie enough if it wasn't green & gold. England is probably one of the few countries that could get away with using racing colours, because British Racing Green is such a well know colour. And we are ultimately after quick recognition in terms of liveries. Quote:
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Here is where you can check out the various picture galleries
from the A1 Grand Prix team launches. http://www.pitpass.com/src/a1gp/a1gp_index.php |
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Team China is the best looking so far IMO. That dragon is !
Followed by Lebanon. Mainly for the font they used to write 'Lebanon' The British one...urrr...I don't know...looks a bit...yeah, no, 'ugly' is the word I'm looking for. |
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