F1 2014 – The Gonzo comparison is true…..

…..if Williams are anything to go by. I actually don’t think it looks completely vomit inducing, but hardly seductive!

Force India’s car looks good (side on at least!)

I wondered why Farce India’s 2014 contender was only photographed in profile.

Obviously it’s best side.

I don’t care what any look like so long as they can compete with whatever Adrian Newey designs.

Front of that Williams looks like a used condom

The cars will all look great side on – they look how the rules were supposed to make them look. Unfortunately at any other angle they’re almost certainly going to look like the Williams (or worse 😯 )

The Caterham (probably)

The Red Bull 😀

Or more likely

Well we will find out soon, the first test is this weekend, isnt it ??

When does it all kick off again?

Test starts next week IIRC

Season starts end of March ish IIRC

Haha that red bull one made me laugh, clubbet! Finger-boy, haha!

the 420 “bits” of aero on the wing look more daft than the gonzo bit.

thought the front wings were going to be much narrower overall.

rear might look a bit odd too with a gaping hole, but not as silly as the 70’s? with huge wings 6ft in the air on stilts.

Oh yes, I remember those wings way up in the air. They were odd. But so were the skirts and the 6 wheeled car (Tyrell?)

this one isn’t too bad?

Going to look like a turd lined up with all those in the background.

At least we’ll have something to chuckle at if Vettel dominates the championship again

As someone up there already said – the additional elements on the front wing look gash on all the cars.

The thing is that everyone knew that we were gonna get these fugly cars this year (and 2 years ago when the stepped noses appeared) but nobody did anything about it.

There again there’s the old adage about racing cars : “If it’s quick, it’s beautiful”.

Lotus;

The Lotus interpretation is interesting, look forward to seeing a front on photo.

Good they’ve gone for a classic British “two finger” up yours rather than “the bird” of other teams 😉

Allegedly, that Lotus one incorporates a fork lift action so when Grosjean slams into the back of the car in front, it will flip them out of the way…..! 😀

Does that mean F1 is now the new “Robot Wars”?
🙂

Self righting mechanisms would make things interesting!

The Lotus is the best looking, the Force India looks great in profile, but I imagine it’s just as gopping as the others head on!

Is it just me or are the two prongs of that Lotus’s nose asymmetrical?

I assume as well that it must have a little stumpy willy in the middle to meet the regs. So the Williams has a willy and the Lotus has a man-gina.

Notter – Member
Does that mean F1 is now the new “Robot Wars”?

Next years Lotus has already been leaked!

I used to work with the blokes who built Dominator2. They used to whack car doors to bits in the work car park when they were testing it.

mmmmmmm philippa forrester!

i wonder how many times we are going to see that little nose broken and loose as the cars can still go round the track without any real effect….

I assume as well that it must have a little stumpy willy in the middle to meet the regs. So the Williams has a willy and the Lotus has a man-gina.

IIRC the rules are on max chassis height at certain positions – the intention being to create lower noses to prevent cars riding over each other in crashes and to limit aero. There isn’t enough of a restriction on the minimum cross section of the nose though, so to meet the regs & gain the most aero benefit the solution is to minimise the forward (lower) section of the nose to gain max airflow under the car.

The Lotus solution is interesting – I guess it’s the camera angle that makes the nose look asymmetric but at first glance they’ll get smoother flow directly under the chassis whereas the anteater/finger/willy noses will be more disturbed after flowing round the proboscis.

Wonder what other options we’ll see.

bit of detail on the lotus nose;

So the lotus has a wonky cameltoe?

Look at the old McLrens in the background above, cars like the MP4/6 just look so good with none of these crappy bits sticking out.

wwaswas – Member

bit of detail on the lotus nose;

Ah, so Scarbs thinks they are asymmetric and that is how they meet the regs. Very interesting.

very obvious from above;

They all look like Ian Manly from school’s penis.

even the Lotus? Was he bifurcated?

No, not the Lotus, but the others. It wasn’t for nothing that he was known as Cyril Sneer, as pictured above.

I thought you meant the lotus then too!

Was going to ask if he had a prince albert ripped out!

At least lotus have gone for a different approach. Bet there is at least one other like this, not Ferrari though.

New Ferrari doesn’t have the nasty nose!

Clicky!