on a positive note, renault was actually the only team to test a very agressive 3channel diff. when they tested young talents earlier this year. That could be an advantage

Sure! Can't imagine something different. My bet is on friday.

Great find, ah the ol forgetting to lock your images directory;)

Is that tiger stripes I see, whoop whoop!:) Sweet!

http://www.confidential-renault.fr/La-livr...e21a2983a344ddf

Here is good view. I like it

That looks HAWT!

Awesome, finally

Webdesigner for Renault is gonnna get his ass kicked:P

A more saturated yellow would be better. It could have been tiger like. Now it's bumblebee.

I'm still hoping for a wasp.

This is GIF image. It has max 256 colours, chill out:)

more snippets:

Excellent livery, I like it If he puts large diamond symbols on the sidepods, then R30 will look stunning.

Something even more interesting:

wanted to put it here, but I've found alonso's pictures there too, so doesn't mean anything

But funny thing is we have all forgotten about romain here.

I'm pessimistic hoping to be happily surprised with the Renault livery... they had decent colors to work with last year and came up with the worse abomination imaginable (car shape included)..

Even the 30th anniversary livery looks too busy and garish to my taste, and you really have to work hard to mess that up considering the classy stuff it was inspired from..

I'm afraid the people in charge over there simply don't get it.. they're trying too hard at Renault.. lol

It's good, very tigery/waspy.

I think live it will be OK. Not beautiful cause current cars simply cant be. Besides RBR maybe;)

i know this is way off topic, but does anyone know how to give this yellow color to a bw picture. its not change in opacity, and its not duotone

well, photoshop, new layer on the previous B&W, blending options - there you choose colour from the list and paint the layer yellow. That would be the most primitive and simple way i can think of now.

The Red endplates and mirrors kill it for me. With the Red the car looks like garbage.

Easy to do in Photoshop. Put yellow on another layer. Assign layer to multiply.

thanks

but multiply doesnt do it. about the other solution, if you paint a layer above in a color you need change opacity, or blending options and that dont work

but thanks both

getting back on topic, i like the color of the renault, if thats really their new color scheme


EDIT

ok i found out, copy bw layer, image > adjustments > photofilter > color > choose yellow > Density 100 > say no to preserve luminosity and then you get that effect

just made this my way:

yeah that works how you said you did that

i found another solution

bw layer, image > adjustments > photofilter > color > choose yellow > Density 100 > say no to preserve luminosity and then you get that effect

I made it bigger...

If you check the image details, it reads: mainnav-ecurie-on.png 16-Dec-2009 18:19 3.6K

Quite old isn't it?

I like that (little) image. Yes, red doesn't fit there at all but at least it looks like it was put together by one sane and not colour blind person.

I think that almost a page of discussions about a 89px × 68px image from over a month ago, that is used somewhere on the web page of RenaultF1 indicates that the paranoia level of this silly season is now beyond the normal clinical level for a healthy person

shhhhhh!

Speedweek:

- Kubica doesn't want Heidfeld as a teammate so he probably will be third driver at Mercedes.

- Kubica told in a talk with Sebastian Buemi that the most likely candidate now is Villeneuve.

- Eric Boullier denied rumours that Vitaly Petrov would bring 15 million euros to the team.

what you talking about willis?

I believe Boullier said that Petrov's money was not the primary reason way they were considering him. At least, that's the way the GP Update article is pitching it.

sorry i stand corrected, thanks

So its Villenueve for the Renault seat again it seems.


Props to Tom and Tract1on for their info and being right.

If true, I'm staggered.

I wouldn't say that's a certainty:
1) It's Kubica telling Buemi telling someone else - it's not exactly straight from the horse's mouth
2) Galko got the thing about Petrov wrong; I don't know if this was his mistake or a mistake of the article he was quoting
3) Boullier never mentioned Villeneuve
4) Petrov's people say they're still talking

Petrov at Renault:
http://www.autohebdo.fr/f1/f1/breve-25-25-...-pilote-renault

Confirmed or just rumoured? I know the title is "Vitaly Petrov second driver at Renault", but I can't read much more.

Photoshop.

According to our information, Vitaly Petrov will soon be confirmed at Renault to drive the second R30.

GP2 Series vice-champion in 2009 in his fourth season in the discipline, the 25 year old Russian will be the team-mate of Robert Kubica

EditL

It's not official but he will be confirmed soon.

Not the most conclusive evidence though is it?

Well, they have quite good source at Renault.

No quotes. Two sentences.

I'm not denying he probably will end up at Renault though.

I secretly hope it will be Petrov. I think he could be quick... he could hold his own against Hulkenberg at his best last year. I don't buy this pay-driver reasons for his selection. It's rubbish, he is a GP2 front-runner. Are di Grassi and Hulkenberg pay drivers? I think not.

He is a pay driver, but Boullier has said it's not the primary reason he's being considered.

So, Petrov comes with huge amount of money. I'm curious if we will see signs of Gazprom or Sberbank on the R30 body...

Exclusively pay-driver I should have verified. Oops.

Still.