Nope, by the looks of it, a new smartphone brand that's trying to bring back awful "glasses free 3D". Between these guys and Rich energy, F1 really looks to be going backwards... Especially when you consider McLaren's new tobacco sponsors.
Gotta love Liberty Media..... just wish they'd leave F1 well alone. It's not an American sport and can't be marketed/handled like one.
Vintage clothing for a vintage team? If only those cars from the 90's came back in style then Williams wpuld be relevant again.
Nah, these guys: https://rokitphones.com But a new phone brand as a sponsor is just as weird as a 2nd hand clothing retailer, because the phone market is already overcrowded with hundreds of brands playing lego with the ever same parts purchased on the open market, so how they can have enough of a margin to buy Williams a pint much less sponsor them is a mystery.
As with Rich Energy, I think there are some backers with shady money involved. Rich has sales of less than £1million in 2017 and they sell almost exclusively to trade, these guys haven't even got a product to market yet, yet both have large sums of cash apparently available. In Rich's case I think sneaky f***in' Russians are involved (one of the registered directors is Serbian). Who knows for Rokit.
The Rok Stars Group covers drinks, finance, beauty products, audio and now 'telecoms'.So possibly less shady than Rich Energy. 'Mr Kendrick's interest in motorsport dates back to his teenage years when he worked for Goodyear Racing and he later secured the European rights of the then unknown Yokohama Tyres before moving into the mobile phone sector'. No idea how true that is but it's something I'd read on an article about the sponsorship.
Is it just me, or do others also think the Williams livery looks quite bad? As in: someone figured out how to do a gradient in powerpoint levels of bad. Perhaps more interesting than the new Renault rendering (and the same colours as before, just this time they have the smiling assassin) is that Scarbs did an initial analysis of the STR14, and points out that more of the rear end in RBT provided this year than before. Hos much remains to be seen.
Interesting to me that two out of three teams are (seemingly) persisting with the high rake chassis design, even though the long wheelbase low rake Mercedes has dominated since 2014. Given that the Merc is either completely untouchable or at least competitive everywhere that isn't Mexico, you would think the other teams would have abandoned the stubby appendage nosed sticking it's diffuser in the air layout. But apparently not.
“celebrating its tenth modern-day Formula One season with a new livery”. Wut? Looks almost identical to the last few years!
New RBR is out, random one off livery (why they do this I dont know) https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/13/first-pictures-new-red-bull-honda-rb15-breaks-cover/ Also EU are investigating Ferrari and McLaren's new sponsors, namely because they are tobacco companies using sneaky wording to get round legal wordings
The Red Bull looks very nice and less crazy that the dazzle camo so they could use it. The merc has some subtle dots on the engine cover but still very much a merc (not necessarily bad)
Fantasy F1 is back open - I will make an entry so I can be embarrassed again with my terrible team choices! https://www.fantasyracers.com
Merc: Still looks like a Merc. The most interesting thing: Those endplate tips that are angled inwards, not outwards. Oh, and stars on the back section of the livery. Notably, there seems to be little to no trickery here. This is a car, it does drive, and it seems to be a "no BS, No Photoshop" real launch car. RBR: Still a size 0 RBR. VERY neat back end, very open around the nose, seemingly pushing air to the floor, same as before. Also went around a track, if I am not mistaken. RP: is that even a new car? The front wing doesn't look complete. And it still has an anteater nose.
