Scuderia Alpha Tauri

[pits]

This will be fun next year with Alfa Romeo and Alpha Tauri on track, a brilliant bit of marketing from Red Bull though, to get people searching for their clothing line provided at astronomical prices, but we will suffer, having to listen to Crofty and his mind melt trying to distinguish between the two teams.

[Kraken]

Don't think it will be an issue. They'll just use Alfa and Tauri.

[2fast748]

If Toro Rosso can change their name without objection why can't Racing Point drop that stupid moniker and call themselves something decent?

[Jasandjules]

2fast748 said:

If Toro Rosso can change their name without objection why can't Racing Point drop that stupid moniker and call themselves something decent?

Force India has a nice ring to it....

[pits]

2fast748 said:

If Toro Rosso can change their name without objection why can't Racing Point drop that stupid moniker and call themselves something decent?

Because racing point doesn't sell £700 jackets

[rallycross]

pits said:

Because racing point doesn't sell £700 jackets

I’d make a wild guess that not many people are going to suddenly want to buy these £700 jackets just because Minardi/Torro Rosso whatever has changed its name?

[cholo]

Can't be any worse than 2011 when we had Lotus and Lotus..

[Evercross]

F1 branding on the fringes really is a bit of a mess, isn't it. Ferrari and Mercedes are fine of course, and Red Bull is just a marketing exercise dressed up as an F1 team.

McLaren have successfully leveraged their brand into a road car division.

Other than that....?

Renault continue to shoot themselves in the foot.

Haas mis-stepped with Rich Energy

Williams - has anyone ever seen a Rokit product?

I am actually struggling now to remember some of the other names/logos on the cars.

Racing Point is the strangest to me as Stroll snr. owns a slew of high street and premium brands including Ralph Lauren Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors (AFAIK he offloaded Pierre Cardin to none other than Mike Ashley) yet none feature prominently.

As for Alpha Tauri - sounds like a '70's sci-fi show to me.

[Fundoreen]

Torro rosso is a version of the name red bull . Actually better imho as its sounds like a racing team rather than a drink.
If he wants to sell the team to someone else or make them look like a seperate entity it makes sense.
Shame the name torro rosso will disappear.

[pits]

rallycross said:

pits said:

Because racing point doesn't sell £700 jackets

I’d make a wild guess that not many people are going to suddenly want to buy these £700 jackets just because Minardi/Torro Rosso whatever has changed its name?

Agreed, but it has made people search for it and there are people out there that will buy, they aren't race branded jackets, more aimed at your posh "roadman".
They have just launched their unknown brand into a massive public eye, it is a good bit of marketing

Evercross said:

As for Alpha Tauri - sounds like a '70's sci-fi show to me.

Alpha Centauri is a star system I think? Definitely used on the latest Lost In Space, it is very cheesy.

[Eric Mc]

Alpha Centauri is indeed a star. It is, in fact, part of a triple star systems where three stars are circling each other. One of the other stars in the system, Proxima Centauri, is the closest star to our Solar System being about 4 light years away.

Alpha Centauri is actually the brightest star in the constellation, Centaur. This is the scientific technique used to name the stars in each constellation - the brightest star being named "Alpha" with the second brightest being "Beta" and so on.

There is indeed a star categorised as Alpha Tauri - which is the brightest star in the constellation, Taurus the Bull. However, it is very rarely referred to as Alpha Tauri because it has a proper name of its own, Aldeberan.

[Kraken]

Fundoreen said:

Torro rosso is a version of the name red bull . Actually better imho as its sounds like a racing team rather than a drink.
If he wants to sell the team to someone else or make them look like a seperate entity it makes sense.
Shame the name torro rosso will disappear.

It's to promote the Red Bull clothing line. Nothing to do with trying to sell it.

[slipstream 1985]

Asda ownn brand of energy drink is called "blue charge" Would love it if they launched a team

[Steamer]

slipstream 1985 said:

Asda ownn brand of energy drink is called "blue charge" Would love it if they launched a team

Or as Aldi's own brand 'Red Thunder' energy drink

[TheDeuce]

pits said:

....but we will suffer, having to listen to Crofty and his mind melt trying to distinguish between the two teams.

On the other hand, having two teams with the same name does mean he'll occasionally make sense when he mistakenly refers to the wrong one

[rallycross]

slipstream 1985 said:

Asda ownn brand of energy drink is called "blue charge" Would love it if they launched a team

They could team up with Williams, got the same colours as their current non-available-to-buy in any store sponsor, would make an easy swop and a million times more credible....

Something like this.

[TheDeuce]

rallycross said:

They could team up with Williams, got the same colours as their current non-available-to-buy in any store sponsor, would make an easy swop and a million times more credible....

Something like this.

Would also deal with the irony of the word 'Rokit' placed on this years car

[pits]

TheDeuce said:

pits said:

....but we will suffer, having to listen to Crofty and his mind melt trying to distinguish between the two teams.

On the other hand, having two teams with the same name does mean he'll occasionally make sense when he mistakenly refers to the wrong one

Broken clock is right twice a day I suppose