Outrun

Not liking the McHonda livery. I'm not a fan of the livery that's for the fans.

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Right, but isn't that 50 mm gap going to be like the wild west? The question is have the teams found gains that don't mess with the flow to the rear wing,

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I want to see it on the track, in natural light before I make any judgements. I don't think it 'orrible but I don't think it's the best they could have done either.

They add a little bit of red and move the white...boom

...esteban

But their mounting solutions are limited to that area too. Can't connect the "tee" anywhere in that year wing box. So I don't think it's gonna be that wild. I think they'll use that wing to condition the air just a bit again before the rear wing. 50mm chord length just aint worth loading up cray cray like me thinks. Better to make that big old wing work harder/better.

But we shall see, eh?

Also Mac livery is lame. Coulda been so much better. Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory or whatever the saying is. Shoulda coulda.

clayton bigsby

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agree 100% they should of gone with all orange with black wheels.

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Yeah. I'm just wondering how low/high juan of these could be placed and wood a lower juan be of any use. I am looking forward to seeing what/if anything comes of these T wings.

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James Allen saying the fins do not add a lot and if the FIA were to banish them it's likely the engineers wouldn't care much.


Renault version looks like a proper F1 car

Outrun

falcongsr

gtpilot

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/124...s-w08-on-track

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I think the fin on the Haas looks 10 times better having a design on it.

Outrun

Haas livery is so so.

njn63

Fin design reminds me of the Cadillac prototype:

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SF70H in the hands of Kimi ran a 58s lap yday in coolish conditions, with power turned down, and on demo tyres. That's just 2 seconds off the lap record.

Wish teams were allowed unlimited testing for 1 month in the offseason, make it the month of Feb.

How about this idea. For each day of testing that is used a portion of the teams prize money is placed into a fund. The teams out of the top 5 are given a share of the money (based on inverse of final standings. Formula for the testing deduction is (# of test days * $1,000,000)/Final standing position from previous season.

Using last years final standings and assuming these teams all did 20 test days it would be: Merc put 20 million in the pot. RB would put 10 million in the pot. Sauber would put 2 million in the pot. If Manor had survived they would put 1.8 million in the pot.

While not the best solution it at least allows for moar testing.

Outrun

No FW19 love. =P Look at that shroud thingie wingmount over the tailpipe and the horizontal skinny top plate (for lack of a better term) over the fin.

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No FW15C either. I'm thinking they picked the first WDC car for each livery

Australia 2000 on now

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Lookin P good

Caoboy

Michelin sticker with Pirelli tires? :confused:

falcongsr

livery not tivery

...esteban

yes. moar of this.

Ferrari den Renault for best looking cars so far. Although I'm 'mirin dat Haas.

Greyout

Deez cars look huge. Maybe its the low wing, but the wheel base looks 15 feet long.

falcongsr

monaco is going to be a cluster

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Wheelbase is longer.

Grabbed these numbers from a post on F1T

The 2017 Merc is longer than the 2016 Merc gotta be over 5100mm at this point


I don't think the perspectives on that are identical but it's close. The wheel base has to be around 3450ish mm - 11.5 ft.

Caoboy

5067mm = 16.62 ft

that's like the size of a 2016 Accord.

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