I get that personally I have that car at number 2 on my list because I love the rothmans williams. To be honest the top 3 of Malboro McLaren, Rothmans Williams and Canon/Camel Williams are so close it's tough to choose between them.
McLaren did indeed move to Woking but not to their current HQ. For many years they were based in a number of industrial units near the town centre. Some years ago now they moved to a brand new purpose built facility near Fairoaks Airport.
I really love this format of your videos and script. Very nice to see the metamorphosis of team in it's cars, livery and partnerships. The background music makes a pretty combination too. Keep up with the excellent work :D
Even though the MP4-20, MP4-21 and MP4-22 are probably my favorite McLaren's cars, I really dig the new Papaya Look, specially the MCL-34 one. I really like how the color transitions using triangles and how the drivers number's look
Ah man you're making No Nut November *very* hard for me by uploading this video my man. Fantastic video! Can't wait to see how good the Ferrari one will be once you eventually get to that one.
Making it a highly dubious skirting of the “no alcohol advertising” rules. A bit like if Marlboro was replaced with “Philip Morris” instead, or “Mission Winnow” (another related company). Oh, errr, hang on .... Not really in the spirit (no pun intended) of the rules, is it? Someone looking up what Diageo was would have no doubt ended up at either their corporate website or Wikipedia page, where all their drinks brands are mentioned. So advertising a banned thing (in this case alcohol) at one step removed; those curious enough to look it up ending up seeing alcohol brands anyway.
Fun facts Marlboro also was sponsor of Holden Dealer Team or HDT for short in the Australian Touring Car championship mid 1970's to 1984 as well as Mitsubishi in the world rally championship late 1990's to the early 2000's
Excellent video, however, I'm still confused about the red color used my McLaren. So far, i haven't been able to find any high quality photos that show if the red first used in the mid-70's is the same flourescent red (or vermillion) that was used on their cars in the early 90's. The color saturation on photos taken of the cars in the 1970's barely show that the red was actually a day-glo color and not just another opaque red. The McLarens from the 1970's to the early 1990's were some of the most beautiful race cars ever built.
Love your videos. It would be interesting to see a few episodes from an Art and Design point of view, critiquing the different liveries, why they worked, or didn't, improvements or downgrades, etc, etc. Maybe a collaboration with Sean Bull?
Soubnds good Javier. In fact I have been thinking a starting another series where I critique team liveries, year by year. Not 100% sure where I'm going to take that idea yet though.
really enjoy theses videos been watching for over a year and always get excited seeing a new video can clearly see a lot of passion and effort has gone into these videos just wanted to say thanks realise a lot of comments can be negative s thought I'd leave a good one. Also any chance we could see a video on Ferrari I know it would be a beefy video but would be really good
Your videos are excellent. However Diageo is a Beverages company, not a non-alcoholic beer. Other than that very tiny thing It's a great video. I really enjoy them.
Those Lowenbrau designs are seriously underrated. I'm glad they went back to the classic colours (with a twist naturally) because I could only associate those dreary designs from West onwards to Ron Dennis. Might be harsh but I couldn't stand him. Those Siemens adverts would bore any sane man to a painful death.
Alex Nguyen not sure if *they* did per se, it was run by Ferrari’s American division I believe, hence why it was navy blue as it was America’s racing colour at the time, and cars competed by colour country wise at the time
The current blue paired with orange isn't Navy Blue. Navy blue is darker than Camel/Rothmans-era Williams blue, while the current McLaren blue is lighter, closer to Pantone Process Blue.
Probably one of the first composite body/chassis racing cars then. Though definitely not the first - there was an earlier Marcos sports car/prototype that used a frame made with a composite glued timber structure, inspired by the Mosquito aircraft. It was a kind of plywood type arrangement, with glass fibre bodywork. Good enough for a high speed plane at the end of WW2, and seemed to work in a racing car. Marcos later made some production vehicles (road cars/kit cars) with a plywood frame as well. Used correctly, timber can be both strong and light. McLaren were probably onto something there .....
I hope not. We already have a silver car on the grid and it would look similar. This orange is the colour of the ”new” mclaren and its very original making it look different from every other cars. I hope and believe they will keep this orange.
You forgot to mention the West Livery featured the red part on the nose to differentiate itself from backmarkers when they were approaching other cars from behind. So that it would stand out :)
@@f1liveryhistories290 Sorry though, I can't remember where I heard it, maybe in a F1 season review, but IIRC they didn't have it at first, but resorted to adding it to indeed set themselves apart from backmarkers. Just like when you have a Ferrari behind you as a backmarker, you instantly aee the red and know you have to move aside
