West and McLaren Part ways this weekend. Anyone know who their new sponsor is?

Ferrari??

 

A Whiskey brand, I forgot which.

 

Johnny Walker

How fitting: After the McClonk lets him down, Kimi can walk back to the pits.

 

..and then have himself a scotch! it is perfect

that green label is some good stuff, might have to go pick up a bottle

 

LOL

Especially true for party boy Kimi.


Maybe once the tobacco ad on the car is gone, it will be less likely to go up in smoke?

 

Give the guy a break!!!

 

He gets one at every race: Usually after lap 30...

 

You guys know what i don't understand? Why is it OK to put booze adverts on a damned racecar but not tobacco. How many times has anyone died from smoking and driving?

 

Good point.

Budweiser on the Williams, Johnny Walker on the Mc Laren. Not a good trend.

To me the whole ban on tobacco ads is ludicrous to begin with. I'm not a smoker, but I sure am happy that big tobacco sponsors the teams with their money.

 

I totaly agree with you my friend...and hey doesnt Marlboro look nice on the Ferrari's(not Bridgestone....hehehehe)

Maybe all should go with looney Toons like they have in Nascar...hahahaha

TAZmanian devil for MS

 

It was no more than 10 years ago where I remember reading about how the big shots of F1 wouldn't permit the advertising of spirits on the cars. They felt it was in poor taste to have racing/driving associated with liquor. Things change.

 

At least in orange they could be sponsored by Jagermeister.

 

There was a proposal a little while ago to have a self imposed restriction on all Alcohol (spirits) and tobacco companies sponsoring F1 teams. In affect the F1 teams would have an internal agreement. McLaren and Ferrari were the first ones to say HELL NO! Williams sponsored by Budweiser also refused the idea.

The EU has a tough stance on any advertising of tobacco that targets kids. Since kids can turn on the TV and watch F1, the EU has decided to restrict tobacco advertising, period!

In my opinion the EU will target drunk driving next. Alcohol sponsorship probably will not last long.

Teams need to persue sponsorship from global brands like
Intel
Oracle
Sony
Samsung
Pepsi
Coca-cola
Nokia

I was completely against alcohol sponsorship in F1 before and I still am!

SHAME ON MCLAREN AND WILLIAMS FOR PROMOTING DRUNK DRIVING!!!!!

 

You sir are an idiot if you truely stand by that statement.

SHAME ON FERRARI FOR PROMOTING LUNG CANCER!!

That type of tripe can be said about many sports in life, and many things in general, but what you do with the product is up to YOU.

So if you choose to drink drive, dont blame it on F1. Blame it on your lack of operational brain cells.

 

BAR and Lucky Strike are in the same position.

 

I think we should just ban advertising ... this would then enable Bernie (Mr Stupid) to get rid of the wings.

Like all sports, professionalisim and thus money is killing it ... lets go back to racing for fun, competitiveness and company pride.

Yeah sure the lap times would slow, but I bet the racing would be heaps better. Atleast we would have drivers that want to race, instead of just playing out their playboy status ... ie. Trulli, Fisi and all the other lame ducks on the grid.

Pete

 

Starting august 21st (Turkish GP) will see Johnnie Walker logos appear on the side of the engine cover of the McLaren car.
Pic at the bottom of the page:
http://mclaren.com/mediaroom/pressreleases/mclaren/0222115902.htm

As for the Hungarian GP....
I heard they will run in orange. I'm sure it won't happen.

 

Wishful thinking

F1 w/o advertising is a closed chapter - we cannot go back now ... Who will pay Schumi's 60MM salary

Rather than fiddling with F1, we would watch SCCA or some other series with amateur racers (not profesional) or better still watch historic racing...

 

Agree ... except please do not include historic racing in the list of real racing. This over attention is causing the drivers to get big heads and forget that in their case the car DOES come first.

Again if you want to be a hero ... get out of the classic/historic car and find a modern series and go RACING

Pete

 

Why not? ... that is the original colour of McLaren racing cars, and would be absolutely cool.

It is actually New Zealands racing colour, hence why McLarens were painted that colour.

A few years ago the debuted (in testing) the pre-West McLaren in orange and it looked fncken stunning.

Heres hoping.
Pete

 

You're right...
The MP4/12 test car (1997) was orange and like you said it looked fncken stunning.
McLaren's color is orange.

Let it be orange!!

 

F1 cars painted like the old Can-Am cars?!?!? WAY cool.

 

Poor taste...yes. Have you ever had a Budweiser or JW?

Battery acid in a can and bottle.

 

Yup.
Pics(the MP4-12 test car):
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/oak/140/mclaren.jpg
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/oak/140/mclaren01.jpg

Make the MP4/20 like that!