Time for F1 to look to Indy car?

[BrettMRC]

This caught my eye this morning:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118729...

No idea how well it performs, but it looks like a cutting edge racer.

Thoughts?

[HarryFlatters]

BrettMRC said:

Thoughts?

It looks like a pubescent boy's idle scribblings on his geography jotter.

IMHO, natch

[upsidedownmark]

Same pretty much; looks like a spec class designed by a marketing department to be what they think a racing car should look like, rather than a proper racing car where form follows function. It should go as fast as possible within the rules, not look pretty.

[DS240]

BrettMRC said:

This caught my eye this morning:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118729...

No idea how well it performs, but it looks like a cutting edge racer.

Thoughts?

It looks absolutely awful in my opinion.

[Doink]

Yes awful but come on f1 cars aren't exactly oil paintings either and been some right dogs recently. Its a shame f1 car design has evolved the way it has, I would much rather f1 cars look like wec with closed wheels, wide rear wings and a closed cockpit

Edited by Doink on Friday 1st May 13:20

[BrettMRC]

Well, it provoked some opinion

[telecat]

Designed so they do not get thrown into the air when racing wheel to wheel on ovals. Hence the cowls behind the rear wheels. Ultimatley performance compromised because of it.

[FourWheelDrift]

telecat said:

Designed so they do not get thrown into the air when racing wheel to wheel on ovals. Hence the cowls behind the rear wheels. Ultimatley performance compromised because of it.

And have been shown to not work because any force breaks the protectors off and the car still goes over the top, just ask Dario Franchitti about that. And if they just break off they are a big piece of debris for someone else to hit or cause yet another full course yellow flag.

[BrettMRC]

...all in the name of getting 40ish cars on a circuit with the capacity for about 20 at those speeds too... but I digress!

[Inertiatic]

Looks crap IMO

F1 needs to stay faaaaar away from anything oval racing related.

[007 VXR]

That just looks wrong

[Some Gump]

Looks cack imo.

[Evangelion]

Well I never thought I'd ever hear myself say this about anything ... but that's even uglier than a current F1.

[007 VXR]

This looks better too me

http://f1concept.ferrari.com/

[DanielSan]

Doink said:

Yes awful but come on f1 cars aren't exactly oil paintings either and been some right dogs recently. Its a shame f1 car design has evolved the way it has, I would much rather f1 cars look like wec with closed wheels, wide rear wings and a closed cockpit

Edited by Doink on Friday 1st May 13:20

That's not an F1 car though. F1 always has been and always should be an open cockpit formula. Otherwise it's just sportscar racing, and we've already got the WEC for just that purpose.

[FourWheelDrift]

Don't forget also that the Nissan Deltawing was a possible Indycar replacement for 2012.

[DanielSan]

FourWheelDrift said:

Don't forget also that the Nissan Deltawing was a possible Indycar replacement for 2012.

One spoiling Le Mans was bad enough.

[007 VXR]

DanielSan said:

One spoiling Le Mans was bad enough.

I saw that in 2012 @ Le Mans

[Doink]

DanielSan said:

That's not an F1 car though. F1 always has been and always should be an open cockpit formula. Otherwise it's just sportscar racing, and we've already got the WEC for just that purpose.

Yes its always been an open wheel formula but what I meant was with the rules governing body type/shape/height/wheelbase etc etc they've pushed the car design down a certain avenue, I was just imagining out loud what could of been if say rules had been relaxed I don't know 30 years ago.

The idea that closed cockpits are called sports cars and open wheel is called F1 is just what's been fed to us, what we've ended up getting, who says that's how it should be, imagine if it was the other way around, I just say it because I prefer the way sports cars look and would like it if WEC was called F1 and vice versa

[BrettMRC]

DanielSan said:

One spoiling Le Mans was bad enough.

Bit harsh - without innovation and experimentation there is nothing.