McLaren MP4-29 Launch Thread

Syla5 · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:27

Spunkey said:
I don't think there's going to be much red going on now Santander have disappeared. I'm thinking predominantly black and silver, ala ~2005.

not sure where you got that from? Santander is still on the overalls and wont be going anyway this year at least.

smr · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:27

Love the look of the car, the colours, the driver line up, everything. PYSCHED!

Nismo · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:28

JB understandably a little subdued in his video, and not a single sighting of Whitmarsh. Has he gone already?

Syla5 said:
not sure where you got that from? Santander is still on the overalls and wont be going anyway this year at least.

Probably meant Vodafone.

smr · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:29

Nismo said:
JB understandably a little subdued in his video, and not a single sighting of Whitmarsh. Has he gone already?

Understandable yep.. I thought that too, didn't seem as chirpy and jovial as he usually is. He'll get his head sorted out very soon though.

SDK^ · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:39

Locked gear ratios - So I''m guessing in Monaco the top gear used will be 7th leaving the headroom for 8th at circuits like at Monza.

DiCe! · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:41

Well......on to the next thing now, I need some red bull

JHeaton · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:43

It almost looks a nice shape until you get to the nose, but I'm sure I can live with that. It's not quite as ugly as the stepped ones we had in recent seasons, or even the walrus. I'm definitely interested in seeing what they come up with for the race livery.

Flibster · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:47

*sigh*

Gopping.

DiCe! · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:47

You know what that looks like? the mp4-23 minus all the aero gear and with the nose stamped on. Those rads looks mean.

andicole0 · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:50

Nismo said:
JB understandably a little subdued in his video, and not a single sighting of Whitmarsh. Has he gone already?

Probably meant Vodafone.

Eric Boullier ??

Andi.

Dup · 24 Jan 2014 at 12:53

I rather like it. At least it's not just hanging out there on its own, there's some structure around the nose area to distract you from it.

Excited for this season, hopefully aesthetics aside we'll see some thrills and spills.

Outcast · 24 Jan 2014 at 13:19

Lotus has posted a shot of its car.. Weird nose too

[edit] Beaten !

ok ..So I'm having to paint the downstairs dunny ceiling inbetween reading about the launches !

My excuse anyway !

lunarwolf · 24 Jan 2014 at 13:37

PinkFloyd · 24 Jan 2014 at 13:58

Looks quite nice considering. Definitely better than the stepped noses we've had recently! I don't know why the FIA can't just apply a sensible rule for noses that involves a low nose for better visibility/safety without it looking ridiculous. How hard can it be?

Gaijin · 24 Jan 2014 at 14:56

Nismo said:
JB understandably a little subdued in his video, and not a single sighting of Whitmarsh. Has he gone already?

smr said:
Understandable yep.. I thought that too, didn't seem as chirpy and jovial as he usually is. He'll get his head sorted out very soon though.

To be fair, although I'm not the biggest Button fan - his Dad only died a week or so ago.

Nismo · 24 Jan 2014 at 15:04

Gayjin said:
To be fair, although I'm not the biggest Button fan - his Dad only died a week or so ago.

That was my point when I said "understandably"...

smr · 24 Jan 2014 at 17:33

Nismo said:
That was my point when I said "understandably"...

~Mike~ · 24 Jan 2014 at 19:10

utajoker · 24 Jan 2014 at 21:19

Looks good, best looking i think so far.

Like the paint scheme too, hope they keep it.

not watched any of the launch but from the pics it looks like they didnt do such a big launch as last year with all the cars driving in etc in case it flops again

They just need a good driver now.