{"id":21236,"date":"2014-03-13T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21236"},"modified":"2014-03-13T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:12:16","slug":"mclarens-melbourne-livery-a-one-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclarens-melbourne-livery-a-one-off\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren&#8217;s Melbourne livery a one-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren will run prominent &#8216;Mobil&#8217; branding on its 2014 car in a one-off livery this weekend in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, we reported that after the MP4-29 was tested in all silver throughout the winter, new bodywork with the addition of the colour black was spotted in the Melbourne pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>The British team has now confirmed that the Melbourne livery is a one-off to mark the 20-year-old partnership with oil sponsor Mobil.<\/p>\n<p>The situation follows the departure of title sponsor Vodafone, and returning chief executive Ron Dennis&#8217; refusal to accept the offers of potential replacements who expected a lower price due to McLaren&#8217;s poor 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our cars will not feature a title sponsor at the first event,&#8221; Dennis said last week, &#8220;but it will definitely feature a title sponsor in the next few events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BikAfwPCQAA7ngU.jpg:large\" width=\"614\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commenting on Dennis&#8217; return to F1, former arch enemy and now FIA president Jean Todt said: &#8220;He was strong opposition to us (Ferrari) and we were strong opposition to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like his sense of detail and his approach to perfection,&#8221; Todt told the Daily Mail.\u00a0 &#8220;Sometimes he is a bit arrogant.\u00a0 We all have our own style but I respect his achievements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren will run prominent &#8216;Mobil&#8217; branding on its 2014 car in a one-off livery this weekend in Australia. Earlier, we reported that after the MP4-29 was tested in all silver throughout the winter, new bodywork with the addition of the colour black was spotted in the Melbourne pitlane. The British team has now confirmed that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5300,5340,284,5284,4788,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}