2006 BAR, McLaren, Renault and Ferrari livery

[ZfrkS62]

With the tabacco sponsor bans slated for the '06 sesaon, i'm wondering how the teams who are using these sponsors are going to adapt their cars.
Specifically Ferrari. I just can't picture anything else written on the rear wing element, nose, or the engine cover.
BAR is going to look a little weird without the red and black circle as well as the McLarens without their main sponsor. the Renaults i think will actually look better without their tobacco ad.

[gucom]

well in the case of ferrari i dont mind at all, i mean lets just pray they'll go for an all-red car (ofcourse with sponsoring but i mean without those huge white fields on their cars)
If im not mistaken, the BA part from BAR comes from British American Tobacco, if that's their main sponsor they'll be in trouble... (does BAT have anything to do with lucky strike???)
McLaren will still be the silver arrow, Mercedes being their real main sponsor (they have a 40% share in McLaren). I dont think Renault will change alot

[yg60m]

The solution is simple : they won't run in the countries where ads for Tabacco is banned :wink:

[bmagni]

i guess Ferrari must have a lot of offers... it wont be a problem for them...
for bar... we'll see

[vexor]

The solution is simple : they won't run in the countries where ads for Tabacco is banned :wink:

I hope they won't do that cause then they won't come to Canada any more.

[bmagni]

The solution is simple : they won't run in the countries where ads for Tabacco is banned :wink:

I hope they won't do that cause then they won't come to Canada any more.

they werent supposed to run this year but private money was used to cover the tobacco "expenses" thats why they did run this season

[ZfrkS62]

there already was a little dispute in china over this issue, obviously it was resolved somehow since the race takes place there in two weeks.

and i think BAT manufacture Lucky Strike. or at least import them. BAR is the chassis maker for the honda team, the way williams is the chassis maker for bmw. at least that is how i figure it, i could be wrong though.

[ae86_16v]

Ferrari whites out Marlboro in US.

[bmagni]

Ferrari whites out Marlboro in US.

canada, france, silverstone...

[chipanggo]

vodafone will likely takeover marlboro as the primary sponsor of ferrari.

[5vz-fe]

I thought a month back there are rumours about Marlboro trying to buy out every single livery on the Ferrari to make it a one color car.

http://f1.racing-live.com/en/headlines/news/detail/040806102708.shtml
http://www.f1racing.nl/en/news.php?newsID=59159

If that is true, I think there is no problem for Ferrari at all. I guess it should work the same for BAR, everyone knows it is BAT that supports BAR anyways.

[aks]

hopefully, if McLaren can get some reliability in both their cars to last the whole race, they will be ok

[MB300E87]

hopefully, if McLaren can get some reliability in both their cars to last the whole race, they will be ok

well yes... but how does cigarettes effect that?

[stracing]

we all know that no matter who sponsors ferrari, it will still be red. i think they have the right to being red. anyways everyone recognises the triangle as marlboro without the lettering. also there were rumours of coca cola sponsoring, don't know where that has led to now

[biff19_a]

all malboro is going to do is make the car look like a pack of smokes... nothing else on it.. unless they are in countries that are tobacco freindly.
BAR... hmmm a nice bullseye on the side of the car might do the trick...

Its funny thought.. all the teams agree to let tobacco advertizing go buy 06 but you knew that they would back down and change their minds on it..
As for Canada.. molson money.. for 2 teams.. i kind of find it a joke that 3 teams can hold a race hostage over money for tobacco advertizing.. Jordan.. Ferrari.. and Mclaren.. I did not include BAR as honda was willing to fork over the extra cash to get rid of the livery for the race. Jordan doesnt really have any power.. so that leaves 2 teams controlling the rest of the paddock... no wonder they cant ever get anything sorted out. Bernie should jsut state the new rules and be done with it

[bmagni]

we all know that no matter who sponsors ferrari, it will still be red. i think they have the right to being red. anyways everyone recognises the triangle as marlboro without the lettering. also there were rumours of coca cola sponsoring, don't know where that has led to now

haha i didnt know bout the rumours but i always thought theyd be a great sponsor instead of marlboro

[TopGearNL]

I think that because the tobacco won't be on the cars anymore that other key role sponsors are going to play a big role, Im thinking about tire company's such as Michelin and Bridgestone, their on the car now I know, but what I mean is like big advertisements on the car, big B for bridgestone on the Ferrari for example.

An other interesting idea would to look at the petrol companies which support the F1 teams, you would have more Shell advertisements on a Ferrari, Mobil on a Mc Laren and so on.

F1 always has alot of other options.
Coca Cola was already mentioned, why not, I think that more big companies that are non-tobacco should go in F1, I think that it would be alot more interesting if you would see Coca Cola, Microsoft etc etc.. :wink:

[ZfrkS62]

also there were rumours of coca cola sponsoring, don't know where that has led to now



I can see the Coke logo on the side pods but not on the engine cover. And picturing a huge black and red B in that area just seems tacky. I think Vodafone would be the best option of all their sponsors that they have now, since i think everyone will be looking to see who replaced Marlboro.


as for the others, i think any company that wants their name being mentioned as a team partner to McLaren should hope that the engines keep blowing up. Since a hex like that is bound to generate some monday morning water cooler speculation :D