Pre-Season 2017 Testing, Car Launches & Chat

[Greenlantern101]

Haas launch 26th.

 

[teabagyokel]

At least one a day until Sunday...
Renault tomorrow.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Saw this morning & was pleasant surprise as That is a very nice looking car gold trim set it off & if goes as well as it looks Sauber are in for successful season. Which they arent as they have a yr old engine so by Hungary they'll be cast adrift

All though what happened to radical changes in the cars i saw the Williams couldnt tell the difference

 

[Greenlantern101]

Renault launch is on. They expect to be first in the championship because they designed the car themselves.

Aww bless.

Edit.
Mr Prost has joined them on the committee. Interesting.

 

[Greenlantern101]

 

[Greenlantern101]

More black is nice. Just not sure about the nose being all yellow. It looks like a giant banana projecting from the cockpit.

 

[Titch]

What is that tall yellow structure behind the driver ? I don't think I like the car, but I have a bit of a thing about predominately yellow cars.
It looks better on Planet F1. The side view shows the strange structure for what it is. But it is very half and half in colouring, back half black, front half YELLOW, very, very yellow.

 

[olegg]

For Renault's colours need only soft tyres

 

[cider_and_toast]

That long, wide, flat sharks fin thingy behind the air box looks like it's certainly a leading contender in this years 'fuck ugy' design competition. Let's hope they all don't look like that.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Shark fins. How come there big thing now did teams just "forget" about them or were they outlawed & as i hadnt noticed

 

[Road of Bones]

I like it - it's like a banana being wielded threateningly by a black-gloved hand...

 

[The Pits]

I like it - it's like a banana being wielded threateningly by a black-gloved hand...

I may have seen that movie.....

 

[Greenlantern101]

Shark fin has to be because the rear wing is now lower than the airbox. Needed to stabilise the air over the rear wing. So I would be surprised if they don't all have one.

 

[Incubus]

Shark fin has to be because the rear wing is now lower than the airbox. Needed to stabilise the air over the rear wing. So I would be surprised if they don't all have one.

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Worth repeating the entire quote because of course that leaves open the possibility that one or two out there cleverer than the rest will have come with an entirely different approach to the problem (a la double-diffuser) and be a second quicker than everybody else from the start.

 

[FB]

Some better photos here and it appears to show that the sharks fin hasn't got a flat top Renault's 2017 prospects

 

[Titch]

I like it - it's like a banana being wielded threateningly by a black-gloved hand...

That's just weird.

 

[The Pits]

Tech insight - shark fins set for 2017 return?

 

[Dario Resta]

Damn. Just as I started celebrating because there are no halos, someone has to ruin it by bringing back shark fins. I don't care about airflow. Ban them, and everyone can put up with crap airflow over the rear wing. What does it matter if everyone's airflow is crap?

 

[Incubus]

I love shark fins on F1 cars! Make them compulsory!

 

[cider_and_toast]

Given that the engine has a turbo rendering the original function of the air box unnecessary I still wonder why a team hasn't tried a mid 80's style roll hoop with a low back to the car. They could place the air intakes for the cooling of the ERS system and whatever else they use the air box for now, either side of the drivers head as in the Lotus 78.