The Orange-coloured McLaren

Here's a few, click for higher-res

Arrows 2002


Toyota 2001


Renault 2002


Mclaren 2002 - Alesi Testing


Then some BAR's and a Honda

BAR 2004




Honda 2006


And here's a Bridgestone Test car - Think its the 1996 Ligier

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

It's the 95 Ligier, can tell because it's much pointier than the 96 chassis.

Cheers mate, I had no idea

Wasn't the 95 Ligier just the 95 Benetton ?

Remember hearing about that somewhere

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

nice to see the alesi/mclaren pic!

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No idea why, but i always loved the Toyota test car

Sim

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Ferrari2007 Wrote:
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> Cheers mate, I had no idea
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> Wasn't the 95 Ligier just the 95 Benetton ?
>
> Remember hearing about that somewhere
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Pretty much so yeah, of course they denied it at the time, but the resemblance is striking.

Flavio Britore either owned or had large interests in Ligier at the the time as well. He pulled some strings to take the Renault engine supply from Ligier to Benetton. Which meant Ligier then had Mugen Hondas, that really pissed off Minardi because they were set for the Mugen deal, but it was called off because of Flav, Benetton and Ligier.

SchueyFan Wrote:
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> nice to see the alesi/mclaren pic!

Indeed! I can't even remember him testing for McLaren! Those 2 schemes work so well... his helmet in the current car would be better still!

Awesome pics guys, keep them coming

As a slight aside, there was a mod for either F1C or F1 2002 that had numerous winter testing liveries. Can't remember what it was called or who it was by, but it was rather nice.

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gav Wrote:
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> Indeed! I can't even remember him testing for
> McLaren! Those 2 schemes work so well... his
> helmet in the current car would be better still!

It was in 2002 when he joined the DTM with Mercedes. I remember he tested at Paul Ricard at least once but can't remember if there were further outings.

As far as special liveries go; BAR had various takes on the Lucky Strike livery with Davidson's 3rd car in 2004, as well as the beautiful one-off 555 livery for the 3rd car in China. There were the seperate liveried cars they had for their launch in 1999 which were also rather beautiful but there don't seem to be many pictures of them around.

In 1964 Ferrari ran last 2 races of that year with a blue and white livery!!!

sasjag Wrote:
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> No idea why, but i always loved the Toyota test
> car


B'cos it makes the race version look like a lonely napkin?

Here's some more testing pics I found, click for higher-res

Jordan 2003 - Looks awesome In all carbon fibre


Renault 2007


Williams 2006


Red Bull 2005


Aguri 2007


BAR 2001 Think this is Panis' first test


Toro Rosso 2006


Then some special liveries

BAR 2004


Jordan 2001 Italy-USA Not 100% sure


Minardi 2004 Imola

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

That Senna.tv went well.

That R27 rocks!

Frantic Wrote:
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> In 1964 Ferrari ran last 2 races of that year with
> a blue and white livery!!!
>

Blue Ferraris are sexier than a bag of chips. FACT!

How about the '96 Dome Mugen Honda tester...Dome never did quite make it to the grid in 1997.


The green Shannon Forti in 1996



The special Ferrari in 2001 at Monza


Giovanna Amati in the original liveried 1992 Brabham. Think it got that awful pink livery around the 5th race or so.


Minardi paying their respects to the late John "John Boy" Walton, team manager, at Silverstone in 2004.


A lovely car (I think) but painfully slow. Lola makes it's only attempt in the 1997 season at Melbourne. At least they saved Damon Hill's blushes a bit at that race.