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Can you made this car with R10 livery style?
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I quite like the idea of two car teams using "inverted" liveries. Take the black carbon fiber with white writing currently on the "unveiled" chassis. If that were to be one livery, the other car would be white with black writing. For three cars, they would just have to add one more color to the mix. All three cars must be identifiable as "Audi's" to the untrained and uninformed viewer but becomes much easier to spot which car is which on TV when a small mirror or number on the side pod tends to be less easily observed.
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13 Dec 2010, 00:47 (Ref:2803556) | #604 | |
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^that would be brilliant! dunno what the third colour would be, but white and black sounds great!
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13 Dec 2010, 01:31 (Ref:2803568) | #605 | |
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As much as I'm sure many of us (I definitely would) would be ecstatic to see the black and white on the car as is, this was just an example. I highly doubt Audi would do so when race time comes (even though it looks great on some of their DTM cars and makes this R18 look menacing). I'm willing to take a shot and think the predominant colors will be Silver, Black and Red as in recent years. However, a mostly black car, a mostly red car and a mostly silver car would be fantastic.
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Knighty? Don't panic. No one mentioned a test mule, did they? We shall wait for the RACE team launch.
Meantime, 4 black things, and 4 silver things, absolutely cock on... Take a pound out of the till. Give yourself a pat on the back, you win Employee of the Month. |
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13 Dec 2010, 12:48 (Ref:2803802) | #609 | ||
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As with most unveilings, it teases me to see a vehicle for the first time in all black....the R18 looks pretty damn mean in black. A yellow top and fin would be utterly ridiculous.
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I'll second that! It looks so good in black, no matter what the livery ends up being it will be a little disappointing.
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This must be one of THE ugliest closed proto's ever build! These LED headlights make it look like a spider. And then this steep windshield, broad nose section and to top it all of, the ugliest aerodynamic 'aid' ever to disgrace a car i.e. this ridiculous fin...
I sincerely hope this car is not gonna win any big races. The pics in the historybooks would be appalling. All imho ofcourse. |
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I have the R18 as my wallpaper, doesn't take long before the fin just becomes another aspect of the car, like how we no longer notice the raised ride height introduced in 2004.
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13 Dec 2010, 21:34 (Ref:2804055) | #617 | |
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I would love to see photograph of a driver's eye view.There can't be much of a field of view between the front wheel fairings and it would be limited at the top of the screen as well.What would the door mirrors actually permit to be seen?
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13 Dec 2010, 22:45 (Ref:2804085) | #620 | ||
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I have to admit I prefer the full light cluster to the reduced one. The less area the lights take up, the more obvious the size of the front wheel arch becomes.
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As much as we can all discuss aesthetics on this car, clearly Audi has absolutely gone with function over form. The R15 had severe headlight issues at LM and they fixed it (to some extent, at least) on the R15+. As long as the headlights are shining the appropriate amount of light in the necessary positions, I don't see the team caring too much about what they look like.
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Welcome back to the world of coupes, AMcN, TK, Dindo and co. With the livery, the colors on each of the cars will vary anyway, for the team to differentiate. |
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14 Dec 2010, 02:11 (Ref:2804166) | #624 | ||
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Davidson had few issues with racing with McNish in traffic at Silverstone. I think that the mirrors are of utmost importance, closed or open car.
The big difference is that Audi has run a curved windshield like on the Bentley Speed 8, while the 908/90X share an optically flat windscreen. However, neither are 100% perfect for visibility, just like on GT cars. Still, those who are good in traffic will still be good in the closed cars. |
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