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[JHS18]

Seeing as there's no forum yet for 2012 car releases, thought this would be the next best place.

Caterham are releasing their car officially tomorrow in F1 Racing magazine, but they've already released an early picture.

Edited by JHS18, 25 January 2012 - 12:21 PM.

[Caesar]

it looks even worse   link

[JHS18]

[Argento Reloaded]

It looks seems to be in line with it performance....

[Caesar]

alligator with wheels

[BradSpeedMan]

Argento Reloaded, on 25 January 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

It looks seems to be in line with it performance....

lol

[Rainmaster]

Apparently the Ferrari isn't much of a looker either, but hopefully some of the grid will look better than that.

[Quiet One]

CAUTION! MANDATORY JOKE AHEAD:

Oh, I don't know...it looks like a 2007 spec rear wing to me...

[JHS18]

#46, on 25 January 2012 - 03:45 PM, said:

Apparently the Ferrari isn't much of a looker either, but hopefully some of the grid will look better than that.

According to Scarbs F1, all the teams will adopt this look. Big pic.

These will take some getting used to...

Edited by JHS18, 25 January 2012 - 04:54 PM.

[Rainmaster]

JHS18, on 25 January 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:

According to Scarbs F1, all the teams will adopt this look. Big pic.

These will take some getting used to...

Yeah, I guess they've been forced by the regs to adopt that design. Nobody would do it by choice..

Nice sig there btw.

[Massa]

If there's one merit to all that mind-numbing oval racing I watch, it's that, having seen so many stock cars and recent IndyCars, you learn not to be so critical of how these F1 cars look.

Besides, any old heap of **** looks pretty to me coming down the straight at Montréal...would love to be in turn 1/turn 2 this year.  If not, New Jersey 2013 on the back stretch...

Edited by Massa, 25 January 2012 - 06:18 PM.

[JHS18]

#46, on 25 January 2012 - 06:14 PM, said:

Yeah, I guess they've been forced by the regs to adopt that design. Nobody would do it by choice..

Nice sig there btw.

Absolutely. I think it's pretty ominous sign when ever people involved within the teams are saying they're ugly. Normally it's "OMG our car is so beautiful and brilliantly designed it's going to be the best ever!!!!"

But I think most people bestowed with the gift of sight would find it hard to argue it's a pretty thing.

(On the sig thing - thanks, always liked Alonso's playing card motif)

Massa, on 25 January 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

If there's one merit to all that mind-numbing oval racing I watch, it's that, having seen so many stock cars and recent IndyCars, you learn not to be so critical of how these F1 cars look.

Besides, any old heap of **** looks pretty to me coming down the straight at Montréal...would love to be in turn 1/turn 2 this year.  If not, New Jersey 2013 on the back stretch...

What is this? Eric actually being slightly positive towards something F1 related? I don't believe it.... j/k

Suddenly missing half the races live due to Sky doesn't look like such a bad deal after all!

[rumblestrip]

It looks like someone's been leaking pics of the Lotus they crash tested.

[HandyNZL]

Surely they could package the keel better to lower the upper suspension mounts...but the rule requiring the nose to be a new, lower, maximum height is the reason behind this...but to just chop the nose on the vertical plane of the front axle and then lower everything forward of that is just awful.

Here's what I don't get...the cars in the 90's had low noses...McLaren had one not so long ago....and none needed to to this to make it all work.  I smell a ruse here....because you can package the nose better than that...unless they were wanting fans to not feel so sad Kubica was never coming back and this was in honour of him....

[Insider]

JHS18, on 25 January 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:

According to Scarbs F1, all the teams will adopt this look. Big pic.

These will take some getting used to...

This is presumably to help Lewis to see the front of the car

[HandyNZL]

I wouldn't scoff, Sean.  IF this is what we are going to get in terms of design this year, then it represents a stepchange in the usual evolutionary development of the cars from year to year.  McLaren has lost a lot of their back room boffins this past year, some to the road division, others to Ferrari and other teams.  I would not be at all surprised that the McLaren is struggling to hang on to third place in the WCC this year.

[Senna's Ghost]

Nose has to be lower this year but the measurement taken from the  front bulkhead remains the same as last year therefore all the teams will bet adopting the same or similar approach to the design of the front end of the car as Caterham.  Bloody ugly looking cars, looks like the front end is a bit of an after thought.  At least in the future when we look back at pictures taken at a race this year there will be no doubt in our minds when the photos were taken.  We will all be able to say, with some authority, that's a 2012 car..

[JHS18]

HandyNZL, on 26 January 2012 - 07:54 AM, said:

I wouldn't scoff, Sean.  IF this is what we are going to get in terms of design this year, then it represents a stepchange in the usual evolutionary development of the cars from year to year.  McLaren has lost a lot of their back room boffins this past year, some to the road division, others to Ferrari and other teams.  I would not be at all surprised that the McLaren is struggling to hang on to third place in the WCC this year.

McLaren always seems to struggle to start with. The '09 car was garbage, the '10 car struggled to start with, and the '11 car was hopeless all through testing before they made some serious modifications before the first race. Seeing as it was really only Red Bull and Red Bull in the championship last year, I'd be surprised if any of the big name teams did struggle. Afterall, surely they'd have all turned their development towards this year anyway after realising there was no chance of catching Vettel in '11.

I say bring back the Walrus nose.

[Caesar]

Caterham has made huge mistake when they decided to launch their car first. All the shock reaction on ugliness of 2012 cars hit them in full amount. Other cars aren't going to be much prettier.

[Quiet One]

Looks like last year's car with an erection.

[Argento Reloaded]

Gascoigne said all cars will be as ugly as ours; but many of them will actually perform better  Mr. Gascoigne (or is he peter gabriel?)

Edited by Argento Reloaded, 26 January 2012 - 07:05 PM.

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[BradSpeedMan]

I think I'm gonna puke...Is this what F1 has evolved to?

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[Senna's Ghost]

There are many advisory bodies associated with F1 for example the Technical Working Group and the Overtaking Working Group.  I say there should be an Aesthetics Working Group.  Their brief is to ensure that any future rules brought into the sport do not impact on beauty of a F1 car.  Casual observers of the sport will laugh at this years crop of cars.

[Quiet One]

In all honesty, every year we claim that we have never seen cars as ugly as this year, only to become more enraged the next year saying that they were nowhere as neautiful as last years'.

Having said that...by George, that is actually hideous!

[BradSpeedMan]

Quiet One, on 27 January 2012 - 11:32 AM, said:

In all honesty, every year we claim that we have never seen cars as ugly as this year...

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about...  

[JHS18]

To be honest, I don't really care what the cars look like as long as they're fast and produce good racing.

Edited by JHS18, 27 January 2012 - 12:19 PM.