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Apart from the gold - that doesn't work on tv (hence the Jordan switch to yellow all those years ago). Actually looking at those photos the gold doesn't work in photos either - it's a bit brown.
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Do you think the gold will remain for the season - or is it just temporary to mark 25yrs?
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It looks a bit clumsy to me.
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Unfortunately the return of the fin. And I do not mean a driver from Scandinavia. Those fins really are hideous.
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The lack of sponsor decals is worrying. And why gold? 25 years is a silver anniversary.
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So what happened to this radical new look for this year? It still has a hideous low nose, still has a nub on the end. All they've done is add more winglets and make the rear wing slightly wider.
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Not exactly to do with the new cars per se but have the front tyres got bigger?
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1. Wider front wing 2. Lower rear wing 3. Wider tires 4. Various dimension changes to the underbody, but generally still a flat bottom. 5. Swept leading edges for sidepods and front wings. 6. Larger barge boards To be honest, while that is a relative large number of changes if you look at at the past handful of years, it is also not particularly large in the sense of what define the body of an F1 car. I suspect what drives the shape of today's car more than anything is the relatively flat bottom and the need to move air in specific ways to generate downforce. Those have not changed. I think chillibowl hits the nail on the head IMHO. If I was to summarize, I would say... High hope that were never grounded in reality. To Jeremy's comment... I expect if we put ten F1 fans together and asked them to define "retro F1", we would get ten different answers. Pick one solution and nine of the ten would be disappointed. The cars do look different if you compare them side by side with 2016, but in my opinion there is really no reason to expect them to be radically different. I do like the look of the wider tires and wider car. That is the "retro" part for me at least. But much of what teams have learned over the recent past is not going to change how the nose looks, or aero tricks for the front wing. The same goes with airflow under and around the sidepods. I also think that crash test requirements (including relatively new ones for the nose) have driven some design elements (including the knobby noses). The cars have generally gravitated to a set design with minor differences between them. There still remains the potential for the changes this year to shake up the order because the devil is in the details with these cars and generally not something that jumps out at you visually. Richard |
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because development for 2017 started very early gave hope that the new rules would yield a different look/greater advancement/more elegant solutions along the current developmental path type thing. also expecting more convergence towards Merc's solution but more so was anticipating more creative solutions like that of Force India's 2016 nose. obviously its too soon for the new owners to have an effect on things but i must also admit to falling into the belief that a new era would come with a new look. early days still and we have yet to see what solutions teams with significant budgets will bring to bear so still holding out hope. so long story short its because i had high hopes. expectations, even those not grounded in reality, are a powerful thing. ![]() |
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What we have is the same ugly shape with more ugly bits taped to it, and wings that about a decade later, still look completely out of proportion. Have they improved the sound yet? Or do they still sound like hair dryers? The new cars killed my interest on F1 and this isn't helping. |
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I have never cared for the shark fin it's extremely ugly.. as I mentioned before the front wing is totally out of control overall and looks ridiculous.
Overall the body work is way to complex .. I am not usually this critical but this year I am going to be, Let's see what the other cars look like .. Thank God Ross Brawn is back in the game ... |
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Kind of like the blue and gold parts...has a cigarette era flavour to it.
that's about the nicest thing I can say about this Sauber. |
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555 maybe 😊
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totally...also, as Biscuits suggested, reminiscent of the Rothmans Williams of 94-97. just flipped the white to the bottom half.
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I'm not too sure on the fin, looked alright to begin with when it was first introduced, then they extended it to the back wing and it looked hideous. We'll get our revenge when Ross Brawn sorts it all out
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I'm optimistic about the look of the cars. The Sauber is an improvement on last years Sauber.
Negatives for me: I didn't realise the shark fin was coming back, and I'm slightly saddened by that. I hate barge boards, so disappointed about those, and obviously we all seem to want smaller and simpler front wings, so that's a given. Positives: I like big F1 cars, the extra aero is going to make them look quick, and some of the engineers seem to have a theory that they should be able to follow closely, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out. The smooth and flowing nature of the cars looks better than I was expecting. I thought raking everything might look tacky, but in my opinion it does work. All in all I'm expecting an interesting season, and hoping for an exciting one. |
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