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Honda launched its 2007 season at a technical briefing for the media in Barcelona on Thursday morning, ahead of the first public test of its new RA107 car at the Spanish track.

The definitive 2007 livery of the first real Honda F1 car since 1968 will be unveiled in February, but it's our first previews of the 07 challenger, as usual in the black test-car colours.

Rooftop view of the RA107


The new pointed nose is the most visual revision


The RA107 has a tighter bodywork package than last year


The more pointed nose and chunky front wing



With the looks of their Shirts, looks like the cool grey-green / red / black BAR Honda logo colours are gone - I love that scheme.

Jense & Rubens


Senior Honda staff

The nose and side pods of the car look interesting...

Now let's see what kind of new, exciting, never-before seen livery they've in store for us that will be unveiled at some later point in time...

Oh I wonder... surely it wouldn't be some white, red and black concoction...

Seriously though, I wish they'd use this interim black livery at the races for once. F1 has been missing an all-black car for years! The '98 Arrows was the last time we had one and that looked great, and obviously the JPS Loti (to borrow a James Hunt term) were legendary.

Greyhead wrote:Seriously though, I wish they'd use this interim black livery at the races for once. F1 has been missing an all-black car for years! The '98 Arrows was the last time we had one and that looked great, and obviously the JPS Loti (to borrow a James Hunt term) were legendary.

I already thought the same, but presumeably this won't happen

Probably not. Apparently most teams won't touch black liveries because the marketing men say it doesn't show up the sponsors very well on a TV screen. I'm sure Lotus, Arrows, Shadow et al would say different...

There are some rumours that the car will be BP-green. What do you as englishman say about this!?

Maybe we'll see a mix like Renault made. This would mean a green, white, red and black livery then

Well that's probably not far from the truth, when Honda were heavily involved in Superbikes with Castrol sponsorship (also green like BP) they were white with black, green and red bits. Didn't look too bad but not that exciting.

Is this the final car? Looks like the prlaunch car in a whit version!

It's the RA106 without Lucky Strike etc.
All F1 teams that attended were using last years cars.

DJS wrote:It's the RA106 without Lucky Strike etc.
All F1 teams that attended were using last years cars.

Ah ok. I doesn't know anything about this F1 Festival there....

Apparently the definitive livery will be some sort of "eco-themed" one. The rumour is that it'll be a big map of the Earth. Nice to know that they make it easy for us to draw the cars...

What's interesting to me is that there is like two pictures of the driving Honda from this event, yet a million others from the other teams... either that's intentional, Honda didn't drive that much or I'm simply looking in the wrong place.

'Motorsport aktuell' from Switzerland wrote last week that Honda's new livery would be revealed February 26th... let's see if that's accurate...

Edit 05.02. 19:03: Interesting highres picture(s) of the black car:
http://www.f1fotos.be/launches2007/honda/HON-12A.jpg
http://www.f1fotos.be/launches2007/honda/HON-11A.jpg

I will be something white, with red and black sponsorship on it. At least, i think....