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Yep the 640, my favourite F1 car
Looks like teh ferarris has more of a McLaren style sde-pod design, using them as pseudo-bargeboards to shove air over the edges of the floor, to in some way seal the edges in combination with teh floor-edge winglets. Unusual side-pod inlets too.
There's quite a variety coming out of the F1 Factories this year!
Well another completely different take on the rules! Hugely sculpted side-pods on the Ferrari... 😳
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MASI OUT OF RACE DIRECTOR ROLE IN FIA’S NEW F1 ‘REFEREEING’ PLAN
He will be replaced by Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich, who will rotate the position between them during the season and be assisted by a permanent senior adviser in Herbie Blash, who was formerly Whiting’s deputy.
Masi will be offered a different position within F1.
Nose is too pointy, would not bang
Those are some big gaping side pod inlets...
Still the best looking 2022 car so far, I think.
would not bang
Are we still saying bang?
thols2
Free MemberMASI OUT OF RACE DIRECTOR ROLE IN FIA’S NEW F1 ‘REFEREEING’ PLAN
I don't know anything about Niels Wittich but Freitas is highly regarded. Interesting to have Herbie back as an advisor.
Cautiously optimistic about the 'virtual race control'/VAR thing...
nickc
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Are we still saying bang?
Yes, specifically in reference to things being too pointy
Are we still saying bang?
Not sure I have the girth to fill the latest exhausts! 😬
Anyway still the Aston for me. 🙂
Are we still saying bang?
Thought it was all about swiping left or right these days? But I'm so out of touch that I don't know which way means what. Would love to see that Ferrari starting a wet race - hope they've got a drain hole in those side baskets.
As if been on the front jack wasnt scary enough!
Clever thinking behind that pointy nose:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/-revealed-ferraris-radical-2022-f1-nose-idea/8253981/
Otmar Szafnauer joins Alpine as team principal in restructure - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60414614
Good to see Otmar going to a good home
Ferrari's my favourite so far, looks rad as hell.
Pretty damning for F1 and rubbish for Lewis and Mercedes. It pretty much says the Masi applied the rules incorrectly. Had they been applied correctly, LH would’ve won his 8th world title. If that isn’t the definition of robbed, I don’t know what is?
Cautiously optimistic about the ‘virtual race control’/VAR thing
I don't get it, this is what the race stewards already do. They look at the cars involved in any incidents telemetry and any video available to make a judgment. How is this new "var" setup any better?
Just sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.
Will he turn up at the launch tomorrow I wonder, they are supposed to be having individual driver interviews I can imagine...
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Robbed…
Good article. About time someone called it like it is
Will he turn up at the launch tomorrow I wonder
Only if there is a big enough box of tissues on the desk for him.
LH hasn’t complained at all. Not a word. It’s quite amusing when one person’s silence is soo deafening to those who should the loudest.
Right now, I’d be feeling pretty damn self conscious if I’d plastered “1” to the front of my car under such controversial circumstances.
Only if there is a big enough box of tissues on the desk for him.
I would say Hamilton's behaviour has been remarkable in that it's been the polar opposite to this
scotroutes Full Member
Only if there is a big enough box of tissues on the desk for him.
We know you don't like him, but how could he have handled this shitshow any better, in your opinion?
I think he's done exactly the right thing, Max doesn't have a gram of his class.
Oh lordy - there's a lot going on with the new Merc. The detail around the sidepods and the little uppy bit on the leading edge of it. Not much fat on it either. Very tightly packaged, lots of aero going on with the floor. Nice...
Sleeeeeeeek!.... 🙂
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No gills, or is that just for launch and they'll appear later?
Its not a looker IMO to many bulges like a sack of potatoes, after the other launches I wonder if Mercedes missed a few tricks, or have just been very clever in aero. The floor look like it'll suck the car down though like a massive reverse wing.
Its not a looker IMO to many bulges like a sack of potatoes, after the other launches I wonder if Mercedes missed a few tricks, or have just been very clever in aero.
That's the fascinating thing about this season. None of the cars are quite the same however the Merc does look the most different (radical?). Very very tight package all the way down.
I really like the look of it too however that is purely subjective :). The Ferrari looks odder to me with its portly, flat and square side tops etc. Pre-season testing is going to be very interesting.
Disappointed no teams have come up with a six wheel car this season.
Different take on the front wing too - heavily loaded towards the outside rather than inside. Similar feel to the sidepods as the Williams as well...
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Now - Ferrari - completely different concept to everyone else - either they've hit the sweet-spot or royally cocked-up - again! 🙂
I'm liking that all the cars are looking different this year - be interesting to see who's got it right though.....
Aston is still the best looking one IMO
So only Sauber/Alfa and Alpine to launch now!
So, McLaren went with pullrod front suspension and pushrod rear, everyone else did the opposite. Fingers crossed that McL haven't got that decision very badly wrong.
Those renders are of a different/earlier version of car, the actual car looks very, very different in the details:
Looks very tightly packaged and they've pushed the rules in some places like the mirror mount turning vanes. Entry to the ground effect tunnels are very different too. Only thing that looks a little conservative is the where the wing attaches to the nose, but suspect that will change
the-muffin-man
Full MemberDifferent take on the front wing too – heavily loaded towards the outside rather than inside.
That's the way everyone is going, but the Merc does look extreme. Means the air near the nose can go straight through and be used by the floor.
If the real Red Bull isn't something truly special they're going to look like an even larger group of plums than they usually do. Remember when they used to be "fun"?
The floor “ripples” are bonkers. They look (not just on the Merc) that they’ve accidentally cooked the carbon at too high a temperature. I wonder if we’re into AI designed features now as they look so out there
wrt the ripples, they had something similar in last years car, or at least in testing they did.
yeah we've seen things like it before, but the ones this year seem to be another step into unusual shapes
The ripples could be a bit of misdirection - if they were a big performance influence then they'd not have shown the real floor until the first test, but they're front and centre in all the pictures so will get everyone going 'ooh fancy floor what's that do' and wasting time trying to understand how/why Merc have done that.
Re. the ripples, according to scarbs:
https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/1494606303456550915
https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/1494611836628619265
So, McLaren went with pullrod front suspension and pushrod rear, everyone else did the opposite.
Didn't Ferrari use to use pullrod at the front?