Formula 1 2019 Season - Car Launch Dates

[HustleRussell]

Mercedes style heat dissipation rear rims on the McLaren. Funny pull rod angle. Engine covers resemble last year's Red Bull

[Vaud]

mycool said:

Cant see why you would give away that much space and therefore downforce. unless this is where the "innovative design not seen on an F1 car before" is going to be and they don't want spy shots of it?

Also car looks suspiciously like last years Ferrari.

It's an open secret that number of Ferrari engineers are now at Sauber.

[HustleRussell]

mycool said:

Cant see why you would give away that much space and therefore downforce. unless this is where the "innovative design not seen on an F1 car before" is going to be and they don't want spy shots of it?

Yep you obviously have to suspect that's not the finished article. Conventional outwash endplates but with honking great gap right in front of the tyre where things are supposed to get interesting.

[Killer2005]

Deesee said:

Alfa,

Oh yes!

[HustleRussell]

2019 McLaren reminds me of the 2018 Williams in that it looks like a hodgepodge of other people's ideas. I hope that similarity is only skin-deep.

[ajprice]

Interesting front wing on the Alfa

[deadslow]

37chevy said:

interesting little article comparing 18 and 19 McL with sliding images

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/formula-one-mcl...

[geeks]

ajprice said:

Interesting front wing on the Alfa

I wonder if this is something they thing they have found a loophole on, I.E there is more detail to come there but they dont want anyone cottoning on until testing gets underway?

[The Moose]

deadslow said:

37chevy said:

interesting little article comparing 18 and 19 McL with sliding images

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/formula-one-mcl...

As a livery, the 2019 McLaren is much better than last years.

[kambites]

Mclaren appear to have massively reduced their rake, which is interesting given that some of the other teams seem to be heading the other way.

[FourWheelDrift]

McLaren also the only team so far not to disguise the halo by blending it in with the colour scheme.

[rsbmw]

[ghost83]

Do you know what after studying it I actually quite like the McLaren much better than last years and glad to see that rake gone

[F1GTRUeno]

kambites said:

Gary29 said:

The cars look enormous don't they?

They are enormous. The Merc last year was 2m wide and 5.7m(!) long.

They're horrendous boats.

But it's F1.

It's never gonna go back to the shapes I wanna see (early 90's please) so pointless wasting time complaining about the state of the cars and just enjoy the racing. Worked with getting over the HALO last year for me.

[mcholeboy_59]

37chevy said:

Am I the only one who can just see mid 2000s Renault from this pic...

[kambites]

F1GTRUeno said:

It's never gonna go back to the shapes I wanna see (early 90's please).

Early 60s for me.

But yeah, complaining about the aestetics does seem to be rather missing the point. If they can get reasonably closely matched cars from a few teams which can race close together I couldn't care less what they look like.

[StevieBee]

JonChalk said:

Not @StevieBee (obvs), but eyetime have been throwing themselves at MotoGP for a couple of years - Googled them once, saw the b*llocks rumours of a front for a Ponzi-like scheme, never thought of them again.

Got to admire their tenacity.

edit: This was the reddit thread I found last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/8v8rpr/...

Edited by JonChalk on Wednesday 13th February 20:05

First time anyone's put an @ in front of my name! I've clearly arrived...or not

In answer....haven't a clue. But is odd that they appear not to have a website!

[paolow]

geeks said:

I wonder if this is something they thing they have found a loophole on, I.E there is more detail to come there but they dont want anyone cottoning on until testing gets underway?

But why not then just slap a generic 4 element full wing on? This way they are saying "weve found something - and its exactly at this point - but we dont want to say what it is". I'm not disagreeing with you - theres more to that wing - but doing this only creates more intrigue?

[l354uge]

My guess is they haven't finished the final wing, so had to run with a semi finished mock up

[ajprice]

kambites said:

F1GTRUeno said:

It's never gonna go back to the shapes I wanna see (early 90's please).

Early 60s for me.

But yeah, complaining about the aestetics does seem to be rather missing the point. If they can get reasonably closely matched cars from a few teams which can race close together I couldn't care less what they look like.

I just want them to get rid of all the OTT aero stuff in the bargeboard area between the sidepods and the front wheels. The rest of the cars are all pretty clean looking.