Pre-Season 2017 Testing, Car Launches & Chat

[teabagyokel]

It's an ugly F1 car, painted in a livery design evidently fished out of a skip outside McLaren.

If this thing is quick all of them are going to look like that! Another ugly silver car tomorrow?

 

[The Artist.....]

Hmm, using the old maxim of "if it looks good it goes good" I think Sauber might struggle this year.

Having now seen the Reggie and the Farce India, this actually, to me, is the best looking car we've seen so far!...

So, F1 has had a whole raft of new rules (again), and has led to ugly shit-boxes being released to the public (again)...

 

[FB]

So Williams are leading in the beauty stakes at the moment, will the car be fast though?

 

[FB]

Oh dear, we could be in for another Mercedes walkover this year - Mercedes has made "unprecedented" step with 2017 F1 engine

 

[vintly]

I quite like the Renault, the fin at least has some character. And I didn't mind the colour last year, it looked pretty good in the flesh. Here it is without branding and again without the shark fin.

 

[Greenlantern101]

It looks very bat-mobile with the fin.

 

[Incubus]

If they really want to come across more "Renault-ish" why don't they just revert to their original colour scheme while they're at it?

 

[Greenlantern101]

Take a look at @alanbaldwinf1's Tweet: Alan Baldwin on Twitter

Merc fin a bit minimalist. Does that mean everyone else has it wrong?

 

[teabagyokel]

That car looks mean!

Does that mean everyone else has it wrong?

Let's hope so. IIRC, the shark fin in 2010 was to enable the F-Duct rear wing stalling devices. That's no longer an issue.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Looks very nice.

 

[snowy]

Nice to see a less of obtrusive fin. Hopefully Mercedes are confident about their downforce levels and won't have to resort to uglifying this rather attractive looking F1 car.

 

[FB]

It's a shame someone has taken a pair of pinking shears to the back of the under tray.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Yeah this does look alot nicer everything just looks alot smoother & more subtle. Like reduced shark fin as espically on the force india was pretty ugly

 

[Greenlantern101]

A few screen grabs off the live 360º camera launch. not great resolution.

 

[Incubus]

Isthis the definitive car as it will appear though or merely an interim version?

 

[vintly]

Melbourne's a month away, not one car is yet the definitive car, but to my highly technical and refined eye the Merc looks... good.

 

[Greenlantern101]

 

[Road of Bones]

If I wasn't constitutionally-obliged to loathe Mercedes with every fibre of my being, I'd actually think that was quite a nice-looking car. I am however so obliged, and therefore I don't (possibly, I'm not sure - I may have inadvertantly confused myself with double-think...)

 

[Titch]

I like that. But is there a fin to come. The Renault ( despite being yellow) looks good minus the fin, then they stick that awful thing on the back and like Greenlantern101 says, it looks like a bat mobile.

 

[siffert_fan]

Renault engine fails after just six laps | PlanetF1

If this is any indication, no matter how much you like or dislike the looks of the Renault, you won't see it for long on the track