Can you name this logo?

[Default User]

To settle a bet, can someone please confirm what this logo is

http://img.tapatalk.com/ae72dc0d-8cff-b7b3.jpg

Between 3 people - our responses are McLaren racing, a Video Game icon, or an 80's tv symbol

Thanks in advance
Confirmation is required by Internet link proving I am right LOL

[boyracer]

Wow, can't recall this symbol. All I can add is that I do not believe that it has any thing to do with McLaren racing.

[Mr Wilson]

Wow, can't recall this symbol. All I can add is that I do not believe that it has any thing to do with McLaren racing.

Second that it is not a McLaren symbol.

[Default User]

Have you guys ever seen it before though? Does it look familiar?

[Mr Wilson]

Stand corrected it was a sponsor on the 2001 McLaren MP4-16......but having trouble figuring out who it is. Doesn't appear that it was on the car for all the races.

http://www.carforums.net/reviews/makes/pictures/mclaren06.jpg

[Takumi616]

Good find! :)


Stand corrected it was a sponsor on the 2001 McLaren MP4-16......but having trouble figuring out who it is. Doesn't appear that it was on the car for all the races.

http://www.carforums.net/reviews/makes/pictures/mclaren06.jpg

[gallipd001]

i have a feeling that is the fanvision logo. they were and still are a mclaren sponsor but not too sure if they may have changed the logo.
their site lists all their current sponsors http://www.mclaren.com/partners

[cwp_sedan]

http://smokeandshop.com/images/west_lights.jpg

West cigarettes

http://www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php/v/cigarettes/257.jpg.html

BOOOOO YAA! :P


They were a big sponsor for them back in the 90's right after they dropped Marlboro.


McLaren MP4/12 - Season 1997

Driver : Mika Hakkinen

The McLaren MP4/12 was the car with which the McLaren Formula One team contested the 1997 Formula One season. It was driven by Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard.

The car was a totally new machine with engines supplied by Mercedes-Benz for the third year of the Anglo-German alliance. Testing was carried out with the cars painted in the traditional McLaren orange, before a striking new silver livery was launched to celebrate the team's new sponsorship deal with West. This replaced the team's 23-year association with Marlboro.

The car proved extremely promising and could have won at least seven races during the course of the season, but reliability proved troublesome, in particular that of the engine. The FO110E engine was replaced with FO110F engine from the French Grand Prix, but the trouble happened frequently to either engine. This proved frustrating, especially after Coulthard won the first race of the season in Australia, McLaren's first win since losing Ayrton Senna. The situation was exacerbated by Häkkinen retiring from three further races whilst in the lead - all from engine failures - including at the Nürburgring, where the team lost a comfortable one-two finish when both cars retired with identical failures within a lap of each other. Coulthard also lost a certain victory - at Montreal, with a clutch problem after a precautionary pitstop just a few laps before the race prematurely ended. However, Coulthard did manage to win at Monza.

The team finally claimed the reward of a one-two finish at the season finale after the collision between Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve, although it was a contentious finish with many nodding to the fact that Patrick Head of Williams and Ron Dennis of McLaren had negotiations where Villeneuve would give up the lead if the McLarens made sure to steer clear from the troubled Williams. Regardless, this was Häkkinen's first win in F1 and was much celebrated by the F1 world which had been tipping him to win since he first outqualified Senna at Portugal in 1993. The win set him up with a good base to start his 1998 campaign, which he was able to win after a season-long battle with Michael Schumacher.

[gallipd001]

ahhh! awesome job!!



http://smokeandshop.com/images/west_lights.jpg

West cigarettes

http://www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php/v/cigarettes/257.jpg.html

BOOOOO YAA! :P


They were a big sponsor for them back in the 90's right after they dropped Marlboro.

[cwp_sedan]

Stand corrected it was a sponsor on the 2001 McLaren MP4-16......but having trouble figuring out who it is. Doesn't appear that it was on the car for all the races.

http://www.carforums.net/reviews/makes/pictures/mclaren06.jpg

I just realized it says West on the rear spoiler. :bang

[boyracer]

HOW DID I MISS THAT? Well done Mr Wilson & cwp_sedan.

[Mr Wilson]

I just realized it says West on the rear spoiler. :bang

Don't be too hard on yourself, never would have thought West would provide more than one logo on the car. Odd that tha character only appeared every so often, though come to think of it with the EU ban on cigarette advertising it's no wonder it didn't appear at all races.

[Default User]

McLaren symbol wins (I guess)
Where's my "I'm Right" t-shirt?

Thanks everyone!

[Mr Wilson]

^^^Here you go!

http://rlv.zcache.com/im_right_t_shirt-p235697518217762763zvqd4_400.jpg

[cwp_sedan]

Don't be too hard on yourself, never would have thought West would provide more than one logo on the car. Odd that tha character only appeared every so often, though come to think of it with the EU ban on cigarette advertising it's no wonder it didn't appear at all races.

Check out this link I found of diecast cars. Shows the sponsorships (which I assume are accurate for the years)

http://indodiecast.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10208&sid=20fe68dda23ec0feedf754d921dc5946




McLaren symbol wins (I guess)
Where's my "I'm Right" t-shirt?

Thanks everyone!

:thumbsup

You da man Eric! :chuckle