Best looking F1 car?

[Varn]

Hey guys and girls, just curious as to which F1 car you all think the most attractive to look at? Any year!

[Rouleur]

Eagle

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Rouleur said:

Eagle

Topic ended. Coolest and best looking F1 car by far. Even from an era when everything looked awesome.

[Dave^]

Always loved the JPS!

[DBSV8]

Lotus type 49

[rsole]

Always liked the 1991 Jordan that MS first drove at Spa - simple clean lines etc...!

(Sorry for lack of picture )

[Mazda Baiter]

chevronb37 said:

Rouleur said:

Eagle

Topic ended. Coolest and best looking F1 car by far. Even from an era when everything looked awesome.

^This.

Although not everything was that good looking back then. Look up the 1967 Cooper Maserati, the BRM H16, the Lotus 43 BRM.

[dpbird90]

Tyrrell 003

[clonmult]

Mazda Baiter said:

chevronb37 said:

Rouleur said:

Eagle

Topic ended. Coolest and best looking F1 car by far. Even from an era when everything looked awesome.

^This.

Although not everything was that good looking back then. Look up the 1967 Cooper Maserati, the BRM H16, the Lotus 43 BRM.

That is just absolutely sublime. Perfection?

F1 cars have been getting worse and worse over the years. Some look better due to the sponsors/colour schemes - the Leyton House/March was one of the best looking in its day.

But with all the wings, winglets and little aero aids, the visual impact of the cars is definitely secondary.

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Mazda Baiter said:

chevronb37 said:

Rouleur said:

Eagle

Topic ended. Coolest and best looking F1 car by far. Even from an era when everything looked awesome.

^This.

Although not everything was that good looking back then. Look up the 1967 Cooper Maserati, the BRM H16, the Lotus 43 BRM.

I actually quite like all of the above. The 43 was really just an interim while they waited for the DFV to come on stream so not a very well-resolved design, but coming after the 33 you'd forgive Lotus that. And the sublime 38 was active concurrently so Lotus hadn't lost their touch. The Cooper Maserati with those deep dish wheels and long exhaust pipes was actually OK. There was one in the FORCE GP series for a while which I was lucky enough to see at an Oulton Park Gold Cup a few years ago. Ben Liebert was racing his Eagle Weslake in the series at the same time - quite a feast for lovers of 1960s GP machinery.

The H16 was also not a bad looker - the engine is bulky, as you'd expect, but with that sexy orange stripe on the nose, I could forgive it anything. There was one at a recent Cholmondeley Pageant of Power which I had a good nose around - an interesting oddity if nothing else.

[mattikake]

Pity it only won one race.

I think no-one but a newbie fanboi is going to pick car from the last 15 years or so. I mean, you can pick any decade of years gone by and find at least one car that looks great, different or mad, but recently they look absolutely w@nk in the most absolute way of using the term 'absolute'!

It's the raised nose that looks so wrong imo. It always has. I curse Ken Tyrell. I thought 2010 cars might look a bit better with the fuel tanks forcing the drivers seating position a bit further forward... but no. Still w@nk.

[Forbes82]

There is a whole heap of lotuses id put up there (The delightfully tiny 25, the 49, anything in the JPS colour scheme) but to be honest i think the eagle above takes it, what a beauty, from the purest and imo most exciting era of motorsport.

[Eric Mc]

It's obviously time for this thread topic to come up again.

It usually appears at least twice a year.

[subwayandoreos]

Rouleur said:

Eagle

any high res pics?

[Rouleur]

No high res I'm afraid, but this should do instead

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Edited by Rouleur on Friday 29th January 20:13

[anonymous-user]

to be honest, almost any car from 63-69 could win this but...well they just look so simple, maybe thats the beauty?

and to many its fugly, but to me its beautiful

and the winner?

[Tarmac Terror]

From the 90's Jordan 191

[mcdjl]

pablo said:

to be honest, almost any car from 63-69 could win this but...well they just look so simple, maybe thats the beauty?

and to many its fugly, but to me its beautiful

and the winner?

I'm undoubtedly going to get sent to hell by everyone else but to me the cars up until the 60s/70s look stunning. After that through to the mid 90s the cars start to look heavy and awkward....I just don't like the look of the JPS cars (ok the liverys do look good). However by the time we get to the much lighter looking modern cars of the later 90s/00s they look good again, though very certainly not as pretty until they reach last years cars when the extra fins disappear again.

[Eric Mc]

What about non F1 Grand Prix cars?

[Teppic]

Ferrari 412T2