same, it was much better the previous years.
the red is just too red. ok the lights are also doing their work, have to see it on stages.
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same, it was much better the previous years.
the red is just too red. ok the lights are also doing their work, have to see it on stages.
Usually I'm not the biggest fan of RB liveries, but this one I do like. Maybe it's the C3, don't know. But it looks like a winning car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Looks good to me, pretty much what I expected from the Citroen Red Bull Total mix. They've had similar liveries on the C4 or Ds3.
I quite like it, but I still have a feeling that rear spoiler is going to look horrific when seen from other angles.
Imho the Red Bull on the side should be little bit smaller...just check the Citroen 2011 livery and see the small but crucial differences I am talking about. Anyway Lappi´s racing overall (suit) looks really good.
link for the launch https://www.facebook.com/Autosport.I...ve_video_share
What kind of wobbly, lop-sided, camera work is this?
Seems like a strange set-up from a press and crowd point of view.
So Mikkelsen chose '89'? Geez...
liveries for me
M-sport
Toyota
Hyundai
Citroen
Hyundai and Citroen have made it so much worse
That FB phone stream wasn't doing the colors much good.
Interviews on here in 5min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznDf5zRDK8
so only ford had a new livery and the rest half-arse it...
Yep, not quite sure what to make of Hyundai's and Citroën's new liveries, they both feel random.
M-Sport head & shoulders above the rest
Agree, the Hyundai looks a random, busy mess. Especially around the front quarter, below the headlights . . Looks like someone has just thrown a tin of red paint at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigWorm
The Citroen looked much better the previous years. I know they had to add redbull livery, which imo looks cack, but don't think the red works. I like the livery of RB F1 cars and KTM MotoGP so think it would have been better like those, as changing the front from black to red has emphasized the fact the front looks like a bus.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Moreover Hyundai again presented the car with different wheel colors in front and rear which is a combination feasible only for display but not onstages.
The Fiesta WRC looks really lovely!
Opinions, opinions etc... but I think they all look shit. Hard to pick a winner, maybe the Ford, maybe the Citroen.
It’s hard to understand why the WRC teams seem to struggle to get this right and have done for a while now.
There are stacks of examples of well designed liveries out there, some in rallying and some in other fields (see a lot of the Le Mans Porsche GT cars as examples).
It speaks volumes that all of the WRC cars look better in their plain white test liveries.
Could do better.
Blegh, that Hyundai! The orange looks like the car has some sort of allergic reaction that gets worse every year...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
I personally loooove the Citroen's livery! It's a bold change, nice colors too.
For me the Citroen one is ok, could do with a bit more Blue at the front as the Red makes it look huge. They didn't help themselves by presenting the car in gravel spec when the others were in Tarmac trim.
The Ford is reasonable, probably what I expected it to look like more or less if they weren't announcing a new sponsor.
The Hyundai they have tried to make the same basic livery a bit more exciting, which they sort of have...but the minute it gets on the stages all the changes will be lost anyway.
I never liked the Toyota Gazoo colours much, even on the LMP car...and this is the same. Changing the dive plane to white does as least make the Panasonic sticker look like it is meant to be there.
Hyundai's livery seems made by a kid
Yes, and Citroen's too!Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Like the ones mentioned here!Quote:
Originally Posted by T16
https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...09-Best-livery
Red Bull livery looked better on Baumschlager's car 18 years ago.
https://www.ewrc.cz/images/2001/mcr/...schlager_3.jpg
I remember when I have seen that car on my eyes for first time, it was amazing. Originally much nicer than on picture...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
i saw him in his escort cosworth with red bull stickers back in 1993 alive. that was beautiful car
I was at Autosport International today. I feel incredibly lucky to have the WRC launch only 20 minutes drive away from my house! It was a bit manic for the launch, the area around the WRC stand wasn't very big so it was pretty crowded. I managed to stand on the side of a pick up truck to get something of a view... After that though it was a much more chilled out affair. The main Autosport stage (where they did the interviews) was a Hall away from the WRC area (where they did the launch and official signing sessions), so all the drivers and team members had to walk (or jog!) between the two, making them very accessible. Most of them were around until the mid afternoon, Elfyn and Teemu were there until the end, by which point they were just walking around casually not getting bothered by too many people. I got a picture with Seb Ogier, asked Malcom Wilson a couple of questions and got a Rally GB directional arrow signed by ALL the drivers on the front, and on the rear Malcolm Wilson, Mr Budar and Tommi Makinen, so all in a productive day!
As for the cars, I think the Hyundai and Citroen, particularly the latter, look much better in person than in many of the pictures posted here.
Here's some picture I took on my phone:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv5qrtX0AAHHJ4.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv6IwkX4AI9gOO.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv6WB2W0AEqRls.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv6lD6WwAA9ccU.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv6pqMWwAgJm7w.jpg:large
No notes required. ;)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv78l4X4AEBTpY.jpg:large
(EDIT: \/ Thanks Est, sorted now.)
cant see the pics man!
Lucky man! What about the Proton? How does it look and what’s their actual program for this year? Btw, nice pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Better in person than in the images, the proportions don't look quite so odd and it is a bigger car than it looks in most images (the height of it is deceptive). It appears professionally designed/built too, rather than looking like it was cobbled together in a shed. As I think has been said, one of the Mellors went on the stage and said the intention is to do APRC and a couple of WRC2 rounds in 2019 before considering a bigger program in 2020. He said they had no news on Drivers because they'd been focused on testing/development up until now, which they've apparently done a lot of. According to Colin Clark (he was host) he'd asked Marcus Gronholm about his test in the Proton and Gronholm's feedback was positive. Mellors said the main market for the car was the Asia Pacific, with the right hand drive being a selling point. Apparently there's been interest from Ireland too. And thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
WRC All Live on BT Sport red button this year: https://f1broadcasting.co/2019/01/13...ive-this-year/
Great news !Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
I have All Live and BT Sport on Cable, so it'll be interesting to see which has the better picture quality. Convenient either way as I haven't previously bothered loading up All Live on the TV, just watched on the computer and phone. That article suggests the All Live output is being taken in France and Greece too. Presumably Canal+ in France, with them providing their own commentary, as of all countries I can't see them broadcasting the English language version?
Didn't Canal+ essentially do a forerunner to 'All Live' back in 2013 or '14 for Rallye de France Alsace?
Asia Pacific ids the focus for 2019 with the possibility of one or two WRC2 rounds only.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
I agree. If the RedBull logo needs to be that large use those colors over the whole car. I do think it's better than all the black last year. That worked on a fifty year old Lotus cigarette box but it's not a very photogenic or appealing color for advertising.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Yep the promoter said yesterday Canal+ was showing every stage with French comms.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Will be interesting to see if that includes the BT Sport app.....Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
However, they still need to work on a few things; the 'free to air' coverage needs to be better, and the series visibility. Sponsors won't sign up to a series which has limited visibility.
https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wrc/ar...aeufe-weniger/
Two European races less......in 2020
Corsica has to go as France already has the Monte Carlo rally, and I guess Sardinia will go too? You can't lose Corisca and Germany as we need more tarmac events not less
Haha say that again. For this year they want to drop them already.