2014 Car Launches

[Plutus]

What is an 'S' duct?

'Scarbs' duct.

 

[Penske666]

Hi everyone,

Ages since I've been on an F1 forum (so long infact I've lost my password for here so had to create a new account)

This years cars are ugly as owt, only the Merc and Ferrari look decent (blimey me complimenting ferrari!!!!)

Anyway I've now rebranded Formula 1 to Formula Wang

Penske666 (still alive and kicking)

 

[mjo]

And we thought the 2012 cars were ugly. Ah well, at least there's a lot of scope for newspaper pun writers.

 

[mjo]

Caterham:

An ironing board with legs!!

 

[Greenlantern101]

The bizarre-ometer is rising.

 

[mjo]

Here's the full car:

 

[GermanF1]

What a joke really

 

[sushifiesta]

WTF was my reaction. Most of them look weird, some of them look disgusting but on the whole I'm loving it. All the noses look different, there's so much F1 geekery to be had!

 

[Andyoak]

Great to see such a wide range of looks... even if they all look awful.
At least the changes this year have opened the door to lots of interpretations; a good thing even if they only hold out to mid-season.
All we need over the next few seasons is to simplify the front wings (I hope that will help to make the nose aero more pleasing on the eye too).
Hope the racing gets as unpredictable as the designs!

 

[Incubus]

Well, I for one am quite glad.

When was the last time we had cars that weren't mostly indistinguishable from one other?

 

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[sushifiesta]

To me the Caterham solution looks like it leaves the largest open area we've seen so far for air to reach the back of the car... but there also seems to be much less going on to try to direct that air flow to where it's needed.

 

[Incubus]

Shades of 1979's Ferrari 312T4...

 

[Fenderman]

So far Caterham get's my Most Ugly and Aerodynamically Wrong Looking prize. Only Marussia cann be worse, surely that is when we get to see it.

The Caterham looks as aerodynamic as a brick. They appear to be stuck for a good aerodynamicist and whoever drafted that thing must have grown up building 1970's kit cars.

Edit: Oh and green is definitely the right colour:

 

[mjo]

Is it the time right for durex to re-enter the F1 market?

 

[Incubus]

Well their rubber are more reliable than Pirelli's...

 

[Fenderman]

... and condom rubber failures are more likely to bring new life as opposed to death

 

[F1Yorkshire]

After Ann Summers tweet last night I think they really need to get involved in F1 as well. With the extra length of the noses there's no limit to the amount of branding space for them.

 

[Road of Bones]

Now we know why it took Caterham so long to announce their drivers- most of the ones they offered to refused to be seen dead in it...

I henceforth rename them "Catering F1" ...for making a Dog's Dinner!

 

[FB]

These cars do hark back to the early 80's