McLaren will reportedly run a revised livery at next weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, according to well placed sources close to the company, journalist Adam Cooper reports.
The revised livery won’t see a step away from McLaren’s current core colour scheme, but the team will reportedly drop silver in favour of “shades of grey”.
It comes after criticism that the current design was too closely aligned with McLaren’s partnership with Mercedes, a deal that ended this year when the Woking outfit switched power unit supplier to Japan’s Honda.
Responding to fans, chairman Ron Dennis said change would only happen if it made commercial sense to do so, but later admitted it would change at some point during the season regardless.
“You’ve got people who say ‘Why don’t we make it orange?,’ and I say, ‘Why?’ ‘That was the old colour of McLaren.’ ‘Well yeah you just said it, why the hell do we want to go backwards?’
Then what do you do? Do you create an aesthetically pleasing design? For what purpose do you produce an aesthetically pleasing design?
“This is the livery of McLaren, it’s always been a combination of these colours, and it will only change for commercial reasons, it wont change just to make a few people in the company happier because they want it orange, or they want it yellow.”
He later added: “It will change, but I’m not going to say when…”
