Scorched Earth policy
Posted by Bill Thomas at 4:45PM on Thursday 01 March, 2007 4 Comments
I'm a bit off-message here, and disagreeing with the Boss Harvey, but I'm not too sure about the Honda F1 car's new colours. Sorry.
Noble idea, of course, and I hope it does some good.
But if you refer to a previous blog I wrote about winning (or otherwise) F1 car colours - with particular reference to the terrible orange-stripey mish-mash dog's breakfast that is this year's failure of a Renault - you'll understand why I have to call the new Earth Car's scheme into question.
Noble, yes. Caring, probably. Clever, definitely. Inspired, sure. Cynical? Maybe. Quick? No.
Sorry, but that doesn't look like a quick colour scheme to me. How about a scheme with the earth viewed from a long distance? Say, a distance precisely far enough away to make the earth fit onto the fuel-filler cap?
Now THAT would be a winning colour, deep-space black, precisely as the Honda test car has been running, in fact.
Let's change it to black mid-season and watch the RA107 start winning. We can still have pixels - tiny stars. And if you pledge more, you can have a little galaxy. How's that sound?
Black, please Honda. Black.
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Personally, I love it. It's not only striking and will stand out among the field, but it looks back to the pre-68 seasons with no reminders slapped all over the car that money rules F1 now rather than passion.
To be honest, the current colour scheme is pure rubbish, good idea but it looks terrible. Even the old orange arrows looked better!