As per a recent report, McLaren’s 2014 car will not have an orange colour.
Martin Whitmarsh, whose position as team boss is pretty doubtful following Ron Dennis’ return had said last year in 2013 “I really like the idea (of an orange livery)”. He further said that if they were lucky enough to find a sponsor who likes orange, one could see that colour again in formula one.
But the report from Omnicorse states that the MP4-29 will in fact retain the chrome finish of past seasons, given that it is not clear a new title sponsor has been signed. That means that the door is open for a full change of identity for the new Honda era in 2015.
So what we can understand from the above report is that the wish of Whitmarsh for having orange coloured cars seems to have been dismissed by the newly all-powerful and famously meticulous team boss Dennis. The report states that the 20-minute speech given by the new boss to McLaren staff recently just before it was announced publicly that he is replacing Whitmarsh as chief executive was followed by a standing ovation.
