F2008 launches today (Ferrari F1)

[jon-]

Teaser shot. The car will launch this afternoon.

Obvious prediction, apart from a few tweaks to the nose / sidepods there won't be much new.

[megy]

Pics now available.

[jon-]

Tech write up http://www.f1technical.net/news/7890

[Fidgits]

looks awfully like the 07 Mclaren

[Martin Keene]

I though it looked exactly like last years Ferrari.

Where Ferrari always palnning on launching today? I don't remember reading about it anywhere, seems strange that it has appear without notice the day before McLaren's launch...

[redbarron84]

Aerial shot of it makes it look like a bloody crab!

[kevin ritson]

Fidgits said:

looks awfully like the 07 Mclaren

That's what I thought. Wonder why...?

[Fidgits]

kevin ritson said:

Fidgits said:

looks awfully like the 07 Mclaren

That's what I thought. Wonder why...?

it was actually a dig at Ferrari cheating (rather than the Mclaren scandal!)- but im sure a ferrari fan would never admit to them ever bending the rules

[flemke]

Fidgits said:

kevin ritson said:

Fidgits said:

looks awfully like the 07 Mclaren

That's what I thought. Wonder why...?

it was actually a dig at Ferrari cheating (rather than the Mclaren scandal!)- but im sure a ferrari fan would never admit to them ever bending the rules

Rules?
Rules?

[classiccooper]

[quote=Martin Keene]I though it looked exactly like last years Ferrari.

[quote]To the untrained eye yes, but as ever, the devil is in the detail.

One F1 car used to look like another to me until I started working at Willimas, now I can be a real bore about the car differences,

Edited by classiccooper on Sunday 6th January 15:40

[Ecurie Ecosse]

Come on now, guys! There's nothing worse than a sore loser ; )

[megy]

Ecurie Ecosse said:

Come on now, guys! There's nothing worse than a miserable loser ; )

Look at the pic of him on the podium, would you have that face if you won a race?

[stemll]

Of course Ferrari cheat. All F1 teams cheat. The only thing different in 2007 was that McLaren and Renault got caught.

Is it just me or are all modern F1 cars a mess. Silly restrictions just mean loads of winglets everywhere that spoil the lines.

[shadowninja]

Looks like a fecking mess. If it wasn't the highest form of functionality in motorsport, it would look daft.

[baz1985]

Well the Woking lot have better paid more attention to the MP4-23 than below

http://www.mclaren.com/theteam/statistics.php

[coetzeeh]

stemll said:

Of course Ferrari cheat. All F1 teams cheat. The only thing different in 2007 was that McLaren and Renault got caught.

Spot on - if you get caught you've got only yourself to blame.

[flemke]

coetzeeh said:

stemll said:

Of course Ferrari cheat. All F1 teams cheat. The only thing different in 2007 was that McLaren and Renault got caught.

Spot on - if you get caught you've got only yourself to blame.

Does that mean that if you have a senior technician who is respected throughout the pitlane, and you piss him off so much that he gives away your team secrets to a rival, then you've got only yourself to blame?

[jon-]

flemke said:

coetzeeh said:

stemll said:

Of course Ferrari cheat. All F1 teams cheat. The only thing different in 2007 was that McLaren and Renault got caught.

Spot on - if you get caught you've got only yourself to blame.

Does that mean that if you have a senior technician who is respected throughout the pitlane, and you piss him off so much that he gives away your team secrets to a rival, then you've got only yourself to blame?

Perhaps a moot point, but NS didn't show much integrity in his actions. While Ferrari dicked him about I'm sure his wage and working conditions were fair.

[Fidgits]

coetzeeh said:

stemll said:

Of course Ferrari cheat. All F1 teams cheat. The only thing different in 2007 was that McLaren and Renault got caught.

Spot on - if you get caught you've got only yourself to blame.

unless the head of the FIA doesnt have it in for you, then he will blame you and fine you $100 million and stop you rightfully winning the manufacturers title...

[deevlash]

still using the extnded "fin" all the way down the back of the airbox. I wonder where they nicked that from? It also appears to still have shit looking wheeltrim covers like mountain bikes had in th 80's. I know theyre functional but goddammit theyre ugly.