[WEC] Porsche Prototype Discussion

[CTD]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

It's funny. We moan about dull boring red white and black. Manufacturers then come up with something different and colourful and we moan about not having dull and boring 'consistent' liveries and want to stick to the looks we've been bored by for years on end. There's no pleasing us, is there......?

We need to keep them on their toes

[Adam43]

Fans moaning?! Never! My favorite moan is the moaning about drivers moaning.

There is a bit of variety this year. That’ll be refreshing.

I quite like the Porsche, FWIW.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Adam43

I quite like the Porsche, FWIW.

For when it's wet?

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

For when it's wet?

More than Ferrari, yes.

[CTD]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

For when it's wet?

Ayse, did you just use a forbidden word!? :O

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by CTD

Ayse, did you just use a forbidden word!? :O

No, I was misquoting Adam, so it's entirely his fault......

[Gingers4Justice]

The new livery will be known as the "butterfly."

Looking forward to the retro butterfly-liveried 911 at Le Mans in 2058 already!

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

The new livery will be known as the "butterfly."

Looking forward to the retro butterfly-liveried 911 at Le Mans in 2058 already!

A retro livery of a livery that was recognizing their retro liveries. That makes my head spin

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by joeb

A retro livery of a livery that was recognizing their retro liveries. That makes my head spin

The ultimate retro livery.

[Matador]

Originally Posted by joeb

A retro livery of a livery that was recognizing their retro liveries. That makes my head spin

Liveryception

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

The new livery will be known as the "butterfly."

Looking forward to the retro butterfly-liveried 911 at Le Mans in 2058 already!

Not if it doesn't win......

[Akrapovic]

I think those new liveries are absolutely terrible. They should've done the retro liveries indeed.

But if they upset the kind of people that use the word "woke" as a negative term, then they at least have a silver lining.

[Aysedasi]

I'm hoping they look good 'in the flesh', so to speak. But it does show how 'classic' just works. Like the Ferrari. And the blue Glick looks wonderful, IMO. Even The Green Floyd looks pretty good....

[chernaudi]

Maybe the ACO and IMSA need to do a throwback weekend like NASCAR does with the spring Darlington race.

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I'm hoping they look good 'in the flesh', so to speak. But it does show how 'classic' just works. Like the Ferrari. And the blue Glick looks wonderful, IMO. Even The Green Floyd looks pretty good....

At least you can see each livery is unique. So you should be able to tell em apart from a distance

By the Green Floyd sounds a bit like a tribute act, don't it?

[KlBD]

Honestly, I think it's not exclusively retro liveries that fans prefer. Sure, they think positively about historically famous liveries because of associated memories, but from a design perspective, we could say that simple color schemes combined with an interesting looking car make for a fine combination, and could create future classics.



I would say that relative simplicity is the defining characteristic of the Jota and JDC liveries, and that can be pleasing to the eye. One of my gripes with SRO GT3 racing is despite the fact I enjoy many of the cars' liveries in their nice press shots, when you see a grid of 40 colorful to the gills GT3 cars all coming at you at once, they somehow become indistinct anyway! And yet, I don't seem to have that problem with GT300 cars in Super GT, even with their wild liveries...wonder what that says about me

[seanyb505]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I'm hoping they look good 'in the flesh', so to speak. But it does show how 'classic' just works. Like the Ferrari. And the blue Glick looks wonderful, IMO. Even The Green Floyd looks pretty good....

Que. Pink. Floyd. Bwt is missing that critical market space between the dtm merc and alpine f1 for the first 3 middle east races.

Originally Posted by chernaudi

Maybe the ACO and IMSA need to do a throwback weekend like NASCAR does with the spring Darlington race.

We've got July 4th at Watkins/lime rock, but an encouraged retro weekend seems like a sure fire hit in imsa. Road America or Atlanta seem like good options.

[veeten]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

Que. Pink. Floyd.

and I have become, comfortably numb.

[RL17]

Porsche liveries are a committee job - more of a 75 year anniversary thing so one car looks good in the museum as a static display.

Not going for the memorable new livery to win Le Mans or a variation to help distinguish the entries unless you are side on in GS etc. A gold/yellow black and red theme with some colour reversal amongst the 3 would look good.

[CTD]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Not if it doesn't win......

The Pink Pig never won

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

Que. Pink. Floyd. Bwt is missing that critical market space between the dtm merc and alpine f1 for the first 3 middle east races.







We've got July 4th at Watkins/lime rock, but an encouraged retro weekend seems like a sure fire hit in imsa. Road America or Atlanta seem like good options.

The Glen often has more USA/Stars and Stripes thing going, and then we invade Canada liveried as such, so that's fun too.

Road Atlanta would be interesting and Coke already ran one for Cooper, although think technically dad owns it.

[joeb]

The jdc car was out turning laps today, it just happens to be that the laps were around their shop parking lot

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by CTD

The Pink Pig never won

Good point!

[RL17]

This little piggy did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRK...3s&pp=2AENkAIB

[CTD]

Originally Posted by RL17

This little piggy did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRK...3s&pp=2AENkAIB

But that was the tribute design