Lotus/Renault

Skeeter · 3 Feb 2016 at 14:28

Why is the guy sat on the rear wheel being vaporized?

timmeh · 3 Feb 2016 at 14:47

So when they were coming up for ideas for that Black and Yellow came on the radio?

It looks rubbish. Lets hope they put a bit more imagination into the physical design of the car.

MooMoo444 · 3 Feb 2016 at 14:50

Looks good to me, black and yellow is a nice mix. The yellow band tires complete the look

Nismo · 3 Feb 2016 at 14:59

Skeeter said:
Why is the guy sat on the rear wheel being vaporized?

Maldonado's last hurrah?

Steeps · 3 Feb 2016 at 15:15

Looks like they hired the same guy that did Sauber's livery. There are some beautiful renders on their twitter feed from fans and all we get is a black car with white sponsors like McLaren... but with yellow accents instead of red!

Matteh · 3 Feb 2016 at 15:23

Apparently it's just an interim livery.

Which is good, because it's bland as hell.

Skeeter · 3 Feb 2016 at 22:12

So if its not the 2016 car, and not the 2016 livery, what was the point of todays "launch"?

413x · 4 Feb 2016 at 01:24

Skeeter said:
So if its not the 2016 car, and not the 2016 livery, what was the point of todays "launch"?

Trying to get some money back lost from pdvsa pull out?

Matteh · 4 Feb 2016 at 07:43

Yeah, it does seem like it was a bit of a waste. I guess it unveiled the team name/management/drivers - I thought I read that there were some other Renaultsport announcements in there too, but I had the stream running on mute as I was in the office so I have no idea what was actually said.

Duke · 4 Feb 2016 at 13:10

Team (re)launch rather than car launch.

andicole0 · 4 Feb 2016 at 13:15

So where is Infinity in the Lotus/Renault/Red Bull rebirth? and where is Ilmor? Renault say they will be providing the same engine that they use to Red Bull.

As for colour if it stays black it needs more yellow/gold I hope it isn't yellow and blue I never like that combo.

Andi.

this_is_gav · 4 Feb 2016 at 14:02

andicole0 said:
As for colour if it stays black it needs more yellow/gold I hope it isn't yellow and blue I never like that combo.

The blue came from Mild Seven so you've got no worries there.

Mind you it was also the only time they won anything major (as Benetton, Benetton-Renault and Renault) so you'd better hope there's no one superstitious in charge of the livery.

lunarwolf · 28 Feb 2016 at 16:19

Really excited with driver lineup.

Good riddance maldonado

hopefully gutierez will be next

glad to see kmag get a second chance

he really got the short end of the stick with mclaren

Hopefully Renault and others start to close the gap with merc otherwise I will probably tune out as I did last couple of seasons

Skeeter · 28 Feb 2016 at 17:25

Unfortunately Renault are writing themselves off already as this years car lacks any real development other than bolting a Renault engine in it.

What they need is a solid year to work on the engine and reliability, to give them a strong base to launch into 2017 on the front foot.

andicole0 · 28 Feb 2016 at 17:44

Skeeter said:
Unfortunately Renault are writing themselves off already as this years car lacks any real development other than bolting a Renault engine in it.

What they need is a solid year to work on the engine and reliability, to give them a strong base to launch into 2017 on the front foot.

A good target for Mclaren then, Haas and Manor in front of those two?
Andi.

andicole0 · 16 Mar 2016 at 15:55

New car launched again. This time in black and yellow!
Andi.