Pre-Season 2012 New Car Images & Discussion

[GeoffP]

Unconvinced either way - but with the way the nose lifts is there really room in there for the drivers legs - I know these guys are short, but...

 

[Vortex]

That’s just hideous, why couldn’t the rules allow a sloping nose to the required front height instead of the step all the way back?

Uglier and uglier cars, dull soulless tracks, fake DRS overtaking, corporate speaking drivers.. F1 just gets better every year.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

...or fans get more cynical every year....or nothing much changes except the things we decide to groan about.

 

[sportsman]

Unconvinced either way - but with the way the nose lifts is there really room in there for the drivers legs - I know these guys are short, but...

I wondered about that.The regulations state the drivers feet must be behind the front axle centre line.
And surely that big hump must play havoc with the arflow over the car.

Didn't someone say in the new nose height regulations thread that we wouldn't really notice a difference in the new lower noses.

 

[FB]

That was me Didn't realise that the teams would take the opportunity to make the cars as ugly as possible, my assumption was that there would be a gentle curve down to the new max height (like the 09 Brawn nose). Maybe Mike Gascoyne got his inspiration from a new staircase he had just put in at his house.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

 

[Greenlantern101]

The step in the nose is I hope the other cars look better.

 

[Brogan]

I suspect they will all look the same.

 

[Vortex]

That was me Didn't realise that the teams would take the opportunity to make the cars as ugly as possible, my assumption was that there would be a gentle curve down to the new max height (like the 09 Brawn nose). Maybe Mike Gascoyne got his inspiration from a new staircase he had just put in at his house.

That’s what I meant when I said I wish the rules would allow it to slope, but I guess all the cars will have those noses or very similar with the new rules, though I hope not.

http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/f1-2012-rules-designs-and-trends/

 

[ExtremeNinja]

I bet McLaren still manage to make theirs look pretty. Not at the expense of performance though, obviously.

 

[sportsman]

That was me Didn't realise that the teams would take the opportunity to make the cars as ugly as possible, my assumption was that there would be a gentle curve down to the new max height (like the 09 Brawn nose). Maybe Mike Gascoyne got his inspiration from a new staircase he had just put in at his house.

Sorry FB.Couldn't resist. Must say I never expected anything like Gascoyne has come up with.

 

[Dizzi]

Canis - I agree with you, the upper fin on the wing definitely looks a lot shorter on one side than the other, the fin with CNN written on it looks twice as long.
It's an ugly brute isn't it, very square for a streamlined car & I'm not keen on the spatula nose.
Would still like to try driving one

 

[Brogan]

On a side note, it was extremely shortsighted of Caterham and F1 Racing to not realise that magazine subscribers almost always receive copies a day early.

A bit of a PR disaster all round.

 

[Vortex]

Di Montezemolo has already described the new Ferrari as “ugly” too.

 

[FB]

Don't the teams use Focus Groups to find out if a car is liked by the paying public? F1 teams would never survive in the real World would they?

 

[Speshal]

On a side note, it was extremely shortsighted of Caterham and F1 Racing to not realise that magazine subscribers almost always receive copies a day early.

A bit of a PR disaster all round.

Seems they agree

Caterham F1 Team @MyCaterhamF1 Thanks to the speedy work of the postal service, some @F1Racing_mag subscribers have received their issue already.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Seems they agree

yep. Saw the same statement on Facebook along with a release of the official image already shared above.

 

[Brogan]

Andrew Benson on Twitter:

I'm told by highly reliable sources that the vast majority of the teams will have similarly ugly noses to the Caterham, owing to regs

Teams objected to original proposal to lower the height of the front bulkhead because of problems in packaging suspension

 

[Mephistopheles]

What an ugly car but I guess brogan gets the

 

[Mephistopheles]

So the next one will be McLaren on the 1st I believe