Pre-Season 2013 Car Launches

[landogeorgelewis1]

Like the look of the new Sauber car .

Think they've taken the Chelsea connection as far as they can.

 

[Brogan]

Another good comparison, this time of the Sauber.

Again courtesy of William Esler on Twitter.

 

[no-FIAt-please]

That sauber might just be the best looking 2013 car so far...

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

Agree with you there no-FIAt-please .

 

[The Pits]

They seem to have gone the opposite way to McLaren with the nose, the chassis seems lower this year than last.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

Jeez I don't know if its just me but this game of spot the difference seems to get harder every year. So far the only things which stand out is a a couple of missing "steps" and the Sauber is a different colour.

Talking of the new livery i wonder how much the return to black is influenced by this

]Sauber C12

It just happens to be 20 years this year... co-incidence?

 

[Brogan]

Well there have been very few changes to the reg's this year so it's unsurprising that the cars look very similar to last year.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

Oh i know that, just im usually the nerdy git who notices that the nose is a couple cm higher or the barge board is a slightly different shape haha. might be time to go to spec savers.

Actually now ive had a good gander of the Sauber pics the sidepods are quite a bit narrower then before.

There's some nice pictures of the New Cars on Joe Sawards blogs.
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/pictures-of-the-new-sauber-f1-car/

 

[sushifiesta]

Maybe Mercedes are feeling the Hamilton effect for the first time today - their web-site has been down all day and the launch is meant to have started by now. They're going to be getting a lot more attention this year.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

considering there troubles for most of last season, I am thinking this is a bad omen. It just seems a bad way to start the season

 

[Lewywo4]

Maybe Mercedes are feeling the Hamilton effect for the first time today - their web-site has been down all day and the launch is meant to have started by now. They're going to be getting a lot more attention this year.

The launch for the Mercedes F1W04, isn't it scheduled for monday Feb. 4 at Jerez?

 

[sushifiesta]

Apparently demand for the F1 web-site has exceeded anything ever seen across Mercedes-Benz worldwide. And I haven't quite been able to figure out if it's a joke or not but they posted this on twitter: https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/297746778122502144/photo/1

 

[Brogan]

That's them having a laugh - that's not their actual server room.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

They said they would do a "reveal" today if enough people tweeded a hash tag (cannot remember what it was)...... and then the server on their site broke!

 

[Brogan]

First footage of the MP4-28 in "action"...

 

[Jos the Boss]

Best pictures of the Mercedes so far, no stepped nose

 

[Mephistopheles]

Wow that things really fast....

Edit
that was meant to be comic quip about Brogan 's post by the way....

 

[sushifiesta]

Mercedes are just a big tease.

 

[Boyle]

That Sauber is a bit too 'HRT 2010' for me...

Edit: Just went back through the thread and noticed Jos beat me to it!

 

[F1 Shift.net]

That sauber might just be the best looking 2013 car so far...

It's actually pretty refreshing to see a car NOT plastered with logos all over the place