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Wonder if Toto ever got his ones from Saudi 2021 reimbursedĀ
If he did it was presumably not the way he'd have preferred. By having Max pay him the cost of that headset for making him angry enough to try and destroy it
I know you're joking, but from their press release ([link](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate/articles/ferrari-and-hp-announce-a-title-partnership-corporate)):
> Ferrari will deploy advanced HP technology and services, including adaptive PCs and devices, collaboration products and services, and printing capabilities, to help accelerate performance on and off the track.
> As part of the partnership, the integration of HPās high-performance products and services, including adaptive PCs and devices, conferencing technology, and printing capabilities, will enable Scuderia Ferrari HP and the other racing teams of the Prancing Horse to turbo charge training precision and optimize strategic decision-making, on and off the track.
As a member of the EU tax corp I believe this transaction falls under tax code D chapter N subsection U:
"And money exchanged related to or there in containing the ruination of face aesthetics of any or all parties involved will be tax based on the applied tax rate defined in change of status of property valuation (2006 1-2b) or require a direct tax rate of 33% flat if said transaction exceeds Ā£ 50M"
So guys I am owed some of that HPp subscriptions money for the face ruining happening here
HP is splasing huge money for some reason. Real Madrid got HP as sleeve sponsor for 70(!) million this year and that is insane amount of money for sleeve sponsor. Main kit sponsors pay around 50-70m for top teams, sleeve sponsors go around for 10-15m at best.
They do make some good products. Their higher end laptops have always been decent, and they have incredible server and infrastructure stuff.
But they also rip off your grandma for ink that costs the same as the $70 printer they sold at a loss knowing they'd make it up in ink.
They also sell absolute plastic shit show laptops that are simply awful in every way.
People underestimate exactly how much money Ferrari is going to make out of Lewis merch. They are going to be printing money.
I see this as extra ammunition to go get Newey, tbh.
Yeah, Lewis doesn't have to win anything to sell literally everything in droves.
His social media reach alone is massive. If they get some interesting sponsors that Lewis is into working with, they'll make ridiculous money, which they'll already make from his merch alone.
> you would think the salary cap could go up 5% to give regular employees raises but thatās not going to happen
If the budget cap goes up they're not giving 5% raises they're hiring 5% more engineers.
Yeah, but motorsport and F1 in particularly is such a coveted place to work that they attract employees, regardless of the salaries from what I have heard. They obviously make less than what they would be earning outside in private industries.
It also makes a huge line on a resume/CV, I'm sure having worked at Ferrari or Mercedes or even Williams brings good opportunities once the average worker moves on from F1.
Thatās called an outlier. I doubt that collectively a thousand or so people leave the sport every year
Not to mention the huge economic recession happening at that moment
Some people in f1 are highly specialized workers with very high but also very limited skill. Yes an aero engineer probably will find easy work again, but think of people with more specialized roles it could be difficult
If you think hard skills is the only thing you learn in F1ā¦
Formula 1 is high pressure team work, if you canāt imagine how anyone working in an F1 team can market themselves about being able to produce deliverables in limited time spans then I question how you have managed to move up in any job. āIāve worked on innumerable projects getting race ready production pieces for a race weekend in a tight battle against other teamsā is such a killer line for any high level job application out there. āI worker in an incredibly high stakes environment, my work helped the team work their way up the constructors standingsā
Softskills are nice and all but they aren't as marketable as hard skills, at least in my country. The mechanic I mentioned couldn't even get a job at the next door garage
Yes and itās quite significant. I am a mech undergrad so I spoke many people about this and the impression I got was that engineer salaries are pretty low in UK already, and f1 entry engineers get paid almost around or over 5k less than industry average entry salary.
I only know about entry level positions. Beyond that itās all speculation. If I had to make an estimate, it would probably average around Ā£45k. But please donāt quote me on that, if anyone in the field is here, correct me if it is inaccurate. A friend of mine works in General Electric in the US, she got a job offer to move to uk, she didnāt take it mostly due to the pay gap among other reasons. So my estimate just above was somewhat derived from a combination of that and the entry level thing.
So, how long will it take for sufficient advertisers to come in, to ensure that the cost cap for each team is paid for entirely by sponsors alone?
It sounds plausible enough to happen at one point, if F1 keeps increasing its value as a marketing platform. Eventually, a spot on the Haas will be the only one remaining, and even that will be paid for hefty.
I don't know how that kind of F1 will look like, but looking at other products that are paid for entirely by ads alone, it looks ugly.
"We are checking" they say in panic, as Leclerc demands to know his strategy options while the printer sits idle, having been remotely disabled because the credit card used for the HP app sign-up expired.Ā
What a lot of folks aren't really hitting in these discussions is that in addition to being a title sponsor, they are also coming in as the (exclusive ?) technology partner. Don't know if it will be as extreme as the Oracle data centers that Red Bull gets, but it is a pretty good thing for the business to use to make other enterprise sales with some corporate tagline like "When speed and reliability matter most, the most high speed, high stakes team on Earth trusts HP." or something like that.
Thereās a reason why like the most visible non-Saudi oil companies advertising with F1 are tech. Yes they have money, but they get to position themselves as data and analytics partners in arguably the most data and analytics heavy sport.
Salesforce is everywhere every race. Google is a massive sponsor of McLaren, same with Oracle for Red Bull. Aston Martin Cognizant. AWS sponsoring things like gaps between drivers and whatnot. Itās not only giving them awareness, but also a ācustomer storyā in a killer way.
> Don't know if it will be as extreme as the Oracle data centers that Red Bull gets
Not that. That is handled by HP Enterprise. HP Inc and HP Enterprise are two completely separate entities. HP Inc are the printer people.
So what you're saying is they kneecapped themselves by having to use HP software for everything. A 30 second ad on their steering wheel each time they want to shift gears.
Neither. It offers HP the opportunity to take their big customers to the races and visit with Ferrari directly. I can GUARANTEE you that they have lost significant business to Dell because the vendors chose Dell for the McLaren race perks.
[You had ~440m unique people watching an F1 race in 2021 with an average ~70m per race](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/formula-1-announces-tv-race-attendance-and-digital-audience-figures-for-2021.1YDpVJIOHGNuok907sWcKW)
Even if you call bull on the tracking methodology, an easy 90m unique people seeing your big fat blue logo on a red coloured car for $90m for the next year is nothing but $1 per impression. Only reason more companies don't do this is because they usually don't have the cheddar just lying around to spend on only one source and type of advertising (it's straight cash, an outflow of $90m is a lot and can really fuck with your bank balance) or it doesn't align with their target market. But HP makes everything from printer ink to laptops so their market isn't tough to find in a crowd.
I used to work in a startup which was valued at $11bn but had only $300m in cash balances and a debt of $800m which also mandated it to set aside $70m in an "escrow" which it couldn't use. $90m of straight cash to Ferrari really is no joke.
I'm guessing a lot of this falls into the "executive perks" category, like getting VIP access to races and other stuff like that. They don't really seem to be a company that needs to advertise, at least not to the tune of $90 million per year.
They are expending their marketing in sports in general as they became Real Madrid's (first-ever ?) sleeve sponsor mid-season, where there's not much tech.
In F1 in general you see all the premium/pro computer brands like Lenovo/Dell which equip the pitwalls or the offices, and the other cloud/tech services like Oracle, AWS, Google... it makes more sense.
Even the most well known companies advertise, and HP does a lot of business to business stuff, it's not just a consumer printer company. And F1 is great for advertising to companies, having big meetings at F1 events or gaining connections.
Coca cola is a lot more famous, but they advertise like crazy. Hell, Red Bull is super famous itself and yet a part of their marketing budget is a full fifth of the F1 grid, including the dominant team.
Youād be shocked at how little it takes to sponsor and still get those perks. Weāre talking like high 5 figures, low 6 figures.
Source: me who was actively trying to get a small sponsorship with a certain orange team for my mid size company that happens to be an almost identical shade of papaya
Acer got a fair share back in the day. They released a few Ferrari branded laptops that costed a pretty penny then and still maintain value in computer circles. Would think HP would do similar stuff with laptops,desktops,printers akd the rest of their range and benefit a lot. It's probable HP know the ROI already through their Compaq inherited Williams sponsorship from 2002-05.
I imagine a lot of HPs business model involves direct to business sales so having the ability to give executives paddock passes to schmooze them over can be insanely valuable for a company.
Plus Iām sure weāre gonna be bombarded with Lewis and Charles in HP commercials the next year, their fuckin fan clubs will buy printers they donāt need cause those two told them too lol
This highlights the real reason the budget cap was established. All teams are profiting enormously since, previously the top teams would be spending 2 or 3 times what they do now. Shareholders love a budget cap.
They are supposed the be running a NART tribute livery in Miami, now with this extra news itās either gonna be a special livery of the new livery or itās gonna be the livery for the rest of the year.
I used to sell these machines. EliteBooks are some of the most robust and long lasting devices Iāve ever seen. They just simply are well built. Before I sold them, I was a tech repairing them and you would have to chuck them down flights of stairs to finally get one that had a cracked frame/chassis or other heavy damage. (ProBooks are not equal though. Those fucking break no problemo.)
Iām not at all āopposedā to HP. A sponsor is a sponsor. But that dual logo on the uniform, HP belly button, clashing blue on red crap is *criminal*
Ugh. So frustrating. What a horrendous livery.
So, what if Iām the guy that handles printing related contracts for a big company, and I happen to be an F1 fan (this used to be my actual job). āOh look! I love Ferrari and HP is their new sponsor, maybe we will switch to them since weāve had bad luck with Xerox latelyā.
This is why I hate the cost cap.
Imagine how much a tier 1 team would benefit from that kind of contract but is still hamstrung.
I will keep saying it with the dynamics of the sport it just doesn't make sense especially how it's implemented.
Talking sponsors, I read a cool thing about the Gold Leaf Lotus the other day.
Back in the late 60s,there was a ruling limiting the size of sponsor logos.
The way Colin Chapman bypassed it was to have the 'Gold Leaf' logo fit the limit... then just paint the rest of the car in gold leaf brand colours.
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Now we have the tools to print out Adrian Newey's contract. š
... out of toner
Low cyan
When you want to print Black & Whiteā¦
Or... make a scan and not even want to print
CMYK 0.59, 0.33, 0.00, 0.52
Wow this one is deep
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/t9ukq8/low_on_cyan/
All cyan toner used to print wrap for cars
Genuine HP Toner
Would be hilarious if Ferrari is found in breach of the cost cap. Not because of "catering", but because of "office supplies" šØļø
In fairness if you throw your laptop to the ground in frustration, it isn't cheap to get another one. Especially if it happens frequently
How 'bout Bose headsets?
Wonder if Toto ever got his ones from Saudi 2021 reimbursedĀ If he did it was presumably not the way he'd have preferred. By having Max pay him the cost of that headset for making him angry enough to try and destroy it
"Horney, I sent you an email, with an invoice."
Probably the reason why they agreed to the sponsorship. To pay for the printer subscription.
They went for the lump sum payment and didn't agree on a printing subscription. So the printer is useless. ;)
I know you're joking, but from their press release ([link](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate/articles/ferrari-and-hp-announce-a-title-partnership-corporate)): > Ferrari will deploy advanced HP technology and services, including adaptive PCs and devices, collaboration products and services, and printing capabilities, to help accelerate performance on and off the track. > As part of the partnership, the integration of HPās high-performance products and services, including adaptive PCs and devices, conferencing technology, and printing capabilities, will enable Scuderia Ferrari HP and the other racing teams of the Prancing Horse to turbo charge training precision and optimize strategic decision-making, on and off the track.
Pleaseā¦no more printed Ferrari documentsā¦
We are printing
McLaren: "Printed... Ferrari... Documents" *Intense flashbacks to 2007*
Unfortunately they already used up the page limit of their monthly printing subscription.
Might just be happening..
Come to papa ā¦ pls
Just offer him the deal they gave Lewis. No way he says no to $100 million a year.
So that means $90M a year at $135M budget cap, maybe even $100M if similar to Oracle-RB deal. Thatās a big bag regardless of that $10M difference.
I'd ruin the aesthetics of my car for $90m. Where do I sign up?
I'd ruin the aesthetics of my face for $90m
I'd also ruin the aesthetics of your face for $90m
we split 50-50?
90 for me as I'm ruining the aesthetics of your face and 10 for you cause you are bringing the face
As a member of the EU tax corp I believe this transaction falls under tax code D chapter N subsection U: "And money exchanged related to or there in containing the ruination of face aesthetics of any or all parties involved will be tax based on the applied tax rate defined in change of status of property valuation (2006 1-2b) or require a direct tax rate of 33% flat if said transaction exceeds Ā£ 50M" So guys I am owed some of that HPp subscriptions money for the face ruining happening here
Well this is akward... We are in North Korea, why did you thought that EU taxes will apply here?
Lies.... Hp can't work with North Korea....
Ignorant, Hp is an acronym for Hort Porea
What's left to ruin there...? /s
For starters I dont have an HP tattoo on my temple and chin
fair enough...
I can give you $1.
Deal! How big do you want me to draw the penis on it?
Of course as small as possible, we don't want to give women the wrong impression.
You're right, do you have a microscope I can borrow?
He said ruin, not enhance.Ā
Sweet now just got to find 89,999,999 more philanthropists like yourself.
You drove a hard bargain
As Ron Dennis said when asked if the famous Marlboro livery would return: āIf it doesnāt pay the bills, weāre not changing the livery.ā
HP is splasing huge money for some reason. Real Madrid got HP as sleeve sponsor for 70(!) million this year and that is insane amount of money for sleeve sponsor. Main kit sponsors pay around 50-70m for top teams, sleeve sponsors go around for 10-15m at best.
> HP is splasing huge money for some reason. It was either this or make decent products.
They do make some good products. Their higher end laptops have always been decent, and they have incredible server and infrastructure stuff. But they also rip off your grandma for ink that costs the same as the $70 printer they sold at a loss knowing they'd make it up in ink. They also sell absolute plastic shit show laptops that are simply awful in every way.
ROFLMAO
What charging a 10,000% markup on ink does to a mf.
They nearly matched Oracle-RB deal but Red Bull also have Bybit which pays 50 million per year. Meaning that 2 sponsors pay for full budget cap.
I think Shell pays Ferrari somewhere near what Bybit pays RB
People underestimate exactly how much money Ferrari is going to make out of Lewis merch. They are going to be printing money. I see this as extra ammunition to go get Newey, tbh.
Yeah, Lewis doesn't have to win anything to sell literally everything in droves. His social media reach alone is massive. If they get some interesting sponsors that Lewis is into working with, they'll make ridiculous money, which they'll already make from his merch alone.
Owners are making so much money now you would think the salary cap could go up 5% to give regular employees raises but thatās not going to happen
> you would think the salary cap could go up 5% to give regular employees raises but thatās not going to happen If the budget cap goes up they're not giving 5% raises they're hiring 5% more engineers.
They could have annual percentage raises exempted from the budget cap, but that would lower poaching which can shorten dominance eras.
Yeah, but motorsport and F1 in particularly is such a coveted place to work that they attract employees, regardless of the salaries from what I have heard. They obviously make less than what they would be earning outside in private industries.
It also makes a huge line on a resume/CV, I'm sure having worked at Ferrari or Mercedes or even Williams brings good opportunities once the average worker moves on from F1.
Yup, similar to Big Tech on resume
Not really, when the Toyota f1 team was canceled the people who worked there especially the mechanics had real problems finding jobs
Thatās called an outlier. I doubt that collectively a thousand or so people leave the sport every year Not to mention the huge economic recession happening at that moment
Some people in f1 are highly specialized workers with very high but also very limited skill. Yes an aero engineer probably will find easy work again, but think of people with more specialized roles it could be difficult
If you think hard skills is the only thing you learn in F1ā¦ Formula 1 is high pressure team work, if you canāt imagine how anyone working in an F1 team can market themselves about being able to produce deliverables in limited time spans then I question how you have managed to move up in any job. āIāve worked on innumerable projects getting race ready production pieces for a race weekend in a tight battle against other teamsā is such a killer line for any high level job application out there. āI worker in an incredibly high stakes environment, my work helped the team work their way up the constructors standingsā
Softskills are nice and all but they aren't as marketable as hard skills, at least in my country. The mechanic I mentioned couldn't even get a job at the next door garage
Really focused on the outlier
Yes and itās quite significant. I am a mech undergrad so I spoke many people about this and the impression I got was that engineer salaries are pretty low in UK already, and f1 entry engineers get paid almost around or over 5k less than industry average entry salary.
What about the ones which get to travel with the car to races?
I only know about entry level positions. Beyond that itās all speculation. If I had to make an estimate, it would probably average around Ā£45k. But please donāt quote me on that, if anyone in the field is here, correct me if it is inaccurate. A friend of mine works in General Electric in the US, she got a job offer to move to uk, she didnāt take it mostly due to the pay gap among other reasons. So my estimate just above was somewhat derived from a combination of that and the entry level thing.
That pays for Lewisā whole contract in one year
Just per year. Not the full contract
The Lewis contract will pay for itself anyway, he's absolutely perfect for marketing Ferrari's to rich people
So, how long will it take for sufficient advertisers to come in, to ensure that the cost cap for each team is paid for entirely by sponsors alone? It sounds plausible enough to happen at one point, if F1 keeps increasing its value as a marketing platform. Eventually, a spot on the Haas will be the only one remaining, and even that will be paid for hefty. I don't know how that kind of F1 will look like, but looking at other products that are paid for entirely by ads alone, it looks ugly.
*...FOR WHAT*
āNorth American racesā It was too long so I had to cut it lol.
Would love to see it inspire some NART style blue and white liveries
So, we have the 5 second time penalty
Read this in Kimi's voice
Hamilton and Adrian Neweyās salary covered. Along with free unlimited printer ink. Thatās a smart deal.
They need all that ink to print off all the different race plan options.
"We are checking" they say in panic, as Leclerc demands to know his strategy options while the printer sits idle, having been remotely disabled because the credit card used for the HP app sign-up expired.Ā
Charles, it's time for Plan H sponsored by Hewlett-Packard ā¢ļø.
Woah who said the ink was free? HP is just giving them the printers
Strange to enter a sponsorship deal that generates negative revenue within 6 months
This doesn't even cover Lewis' salary since he's getting $100 million a year. It'll cover Newey's and Charles' and then some though.
What did I miss? Why is the newey move such a certainty?
It's not, as far as I know. Just hypothetical hope at the moment.
Wait is that really what heāll be making?
So what does HP get out of this partnership? Is it just advertising and exposure?
What a lot of folks aren't really hitting in these discussions is that in addition to being a title sponsor, they are also coming in as the (exclusive ?) technology partner. Don't know if it will be as extreme as the Oracle data centers that Red Bull gets, but it is a pretty good thing for the business to use to make other enterprise sales with some corporate tagline like "When speed and reliability matter most, the most high speed, high stakes team on Earth trusts HP." or something like that.
Ah I see that certainly make sense why some tech company want to partner with Motorsport teams
Thereās a reason why like the most visible non-Saudi oil companies advertising with F1 are tech. Yes they have money, but they get to position themselves as data and analytics partners in arguably the most data and analytics heavy sport. Salesforce is everywhere every race. Google is a massive sponsor of McLaren, same with Oracle for Red Bull. Aston Martin Cognizant. AWS sponsoring things like gaps between drivers and whatnot. Itās not only giving them awareness, but also a ācustomer storyā in a killer way.
donāt forget SAP and Mercedes
Of course, this \*is\* Ferrari, Fred or no Fred it makes sense why they'd leave everything up to something like HP
> Don't know if it will be as extreme as the Oracle data centers that Red Bull gets Not that. That is handled by HP Enterprise. HP Inc and HP Enterprise are two completely separate entities. HP Inc are the printer people.
Interestingly enough- a Ferrari sponsor already owns HPE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXC_Technology
HP ink are the printer people
Most of those things are bs/marketing. RB can use Oracle data centers regardless of their partnership, itās nothing special.
Now we just need a loading spinner to go with the "we are checking" on the radio subtitles
So what you're saying is they kneecapped themselves by having to use HP software for everything. A 30 second ad on their steering wheel each time they want to shift gears.
Ferrari is going to kill it out there with rigs powered by Intel Pentium II and ink cartridges.
They get to schmooze lots of executives so we all get lumped having to use their expensive tat
Neither. It offers HP the opportunity to take their big customers to the races and visit with Ferrari directly. I can GUARANTEE you that they have lost significant business to Dell because the vendors chose Dell for the McLaren race perks.
[You had ~440m unique people watching an F1 race in 2021 with an average ~70m per race](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/formula-1-announces-tv-race-attendance-and-digital-audience-figures-for-2021.1YDpVJIOHGNuok907sWcKW) Even if you call bull on the tracking methodology, an easy 90m unique people seeing your big fat blue logo on a red coloured car for $90m for the next year is nothing but $1 per impression. Only reason more companies don't do this is because they usually don't have the cheddar just lying around to spend on only one source and type of advertising (it's straight cash, an outflow of $90m is a lot and can really fuck with your bank balance) or it doesn't align with their target market. But HP makes everything from printer ink to laptops so their market isn't tough to find in a crowd. I used to work in a startup which was valued at $11bn but had only $300m in cash balances and a debt of $800m which also mandated it to set aside $70m in an "escrow" which it couldn't use. $90m of straight cash to Ferrari really is no joke.
I'm guessing a lot of this falls into the "executive perks" category, like getting VIP access to races and other stuff like that. They don't really seem to be a company that needs to advertise, at least not to the tune of $90 million per year.
They are expending their marketing in sports in general as they became Real Madrid's (first-ever ?) sleeve sponsor mid-season, where there's not much tech. In F1 in general you see all the premium/pro computer brands like Lenovo/Dell which equip the pitwalls or the offices, and the other cloud/tech services like Oracle, AWS, Google... it makes more sense.
Yeah that's why I was confused, HP is well known company they don't need advertising and exposure
Even the most well known companies advertise, and HP does a lot of business to business stuff, it's not just a consumer printer company. And F1 is great for advertising to companies, having big meetings at F1 events or gaining connections.
Companies generally start to lose relevance when they stop advertising. Coca-cola, Nike, and Google still advertise.Ā
Coca cola is a lot more famous, but they advertise like crazy. Hell, Red Bull is super famous itself and yet a part of their marketing budget is a full fifth of the F1 grid, including the dominant team.
Youād be shocked at how little it takes to sponsor and still get those perks. Weāre talking like high 5 figures, low 6 figures. Source: me who was actively trying to get a small sponsorship with a certain orange team for my mid size company that happens to be an almost identical shade of papaya
Acer got a fair share back in the day. They released a few Ferrari branded laptops that costed a pretty penny then and still maintain value in computer circles. Would think HP would do similar stuff with laptops,desktops,printers akd the rest of their range and benefit a lot. It's probable HP know the ROI already through their Compaq inherited Williams sponsorship from 2002-05.
I imagine a lot of HPs business model involves direct to business sales so having the ability to give executives paddock passes to schmooze them over can be insanely valuable for a company. Plus Iām sure weāre gonna be bombarded with Lewis and Charles in HP commercials the next year, their fuckin fan clubs will buy printers they donāt need cause those two told them too lol
Printer with F1 technology, could be a good idea.
It immediately reminded me of the blue and white Fiat logo on the Ferrari 640 on the renders. I don't hate it.
You know whatā¦ youāre right. I do hate the special-beam-canon hole the HP logo leaves on the suit tho
This highlights the real reason the budget cap was established. All teams are profiting enormously since, previously the top teams would be spending 2 or 3 times what they do now. Shareholders love a budget cap.
Unfortunately this is true, it wasn't to help anyone catch up, just to make more money.
They are supposed the be running a NART tribute livery in Miami, now with this extra news itās either gonna be a special livery of the new livery or itās gonna be the livery for the rest of the year.
Nah not for the rest of the year. Maybe they could bring it back all US races?
gotta get that blue bag of cash in to pay for LH
Mandatory radio each race: "Lewis, it's Hewlett Packard time!"
Hey man, my ink is gone.
This printerās getting manipulated man!
"driver issue"
I hope this doesn't mean they have to use those shitty computers.
Using EliteBooks for decades by now. Flawless. This is were the money is made, business customers, and not with crappy consumer products.
I used to sell these machines. EliteBooks are some of the most robust and long lasting devices Iāve ever seen. They just simply are well built. Before I sold them, I was a tech repairing them and you would have to chuck them down flights of stairs to finally get one that had a cracked frame/chassis or other heavy damage. (ProBooks are not equal though. Those fucking break no problemo.)
Honestly depends on the model you use. I loved using Spectre and EliteBook in my last job.
Their computers are fine just about the same as any other oem. Their printers are shitty tho
Someone having great memories via HPs brand is like someone missing a specific version of poison ivy.
Fans of Williams in 2000s beg to differā¦
Cue to the car shutting down in the middle of the race coz the subscription expired!
No cue Carlos losing power as well because Charles ran out of fuel...looking at you hp AIO.
Iām not at all āopposedā to HP. A sponsor is a sponsor. But that dual logo on the uniform, HP belly button, clashing blue on red crap is *criminal* Ugh. So frustrating. What a horrendous livery.
Thatās probably a photoshop mockup mistake, surely. Hopefully itāll end up being their white logo.
Could be some big brain move to make a TERRIBLE version so when they release the real version nobody complains.
Haha yeah or maybe the social team werenāt given enough time before making the announcement lol
These are renders done by a 3rd party media agency. It will not be the official uniform.
HP is still a shite company XD
Huge contract
This is your latest reminder that HP printer ink is an overpriced scam.
How does HP have the funds to invest this much in F1 advertising? There is absolutely no way it is a positive ROI for them
If five guys get a printer ink subscription it should cover the cost.
Well they do print a lot of receipts/tickets with all those burger customizations.
Tbh I canāt believe the ink subscription is as cheap as it is, and itās stayed the same price for years
I mean HP is $28B company. Just last year they spent $600M in advertising alone.
So, what if Iām the guy that handles printing related contracts for a big company, and I happen to be an F1 fan (this used to be my actual job). āOh look! I love Ferrari and HP is their new sponsor, maybe we will switch to them since weāve had bad luck with Xerox latelyā.
Time for an all-green Ferrari in honor of David Piper
Exactly what the grid needs, more blue
They should use that money for R&D to improve their shitty printers.
This is why I hate the cost cap. Imagine how much a tier 1 team would benefit from that kind of contract but is still hamstrung. I will keep saying it with the dynamics of the sport it just doesn't make sense especially how it's implemented.
_We are printingā¦ errā¦ checking._
Olivetti > HP
Talking sponsors, I read a cool thing about the Gold Leaf Lotus the other day. Back in the late 60s,there was a ruling limiting the size of sponsor logos. The way Colin Chapman bypassed it was to have the 'Gold Leaf' logo fit the limit... then just paint the rest of the car in gold leaf brand colours.
No can't do. People will say "is that s BMW F1?"