Abu Dhabi, 2 seater F1 car testing this afternoon

[RSPhilip]

How cool???

http://www.crankandpiston.com/?q=node/448

[lewis1]

why does the second picture look fake? and this has to be the fourth different 2 seater f1 car built if its new, but it looks like an old minardi one with different paint

[CivicMan]

Not the first 2 seater by a long chalk... Arrows, Minardi etc.

[RSPhilip]

lewis1 said:

why does the second picture look fake? and this has to be the fourth different 2 seater f1 car built if its new, but it looks like an old minardi one with different paint

Not sure...was real though...

I think it is an old Arrows car...Not to sure yet but will find out next week when I head on down there.

[FourWheelDrift]

Front wing and bargeboard matches the Arrows 2 seater posted above. Same thing, different colours.

[sniff diesel]

CivicMan said:

Not the first 2 seater by a long chalk... Arrows, Minardi etc.

There was even a 3 seater Arrows:

[CivicMan]

sniff diesel said:

CivicMan said:

Not the first 2 seater by a long chalk... Arrows, Minardi etc.

There was even a 3 seater Arrows:

I'll raise you :

[FourWheelDrift]

Martin Brundle & David Coulthard are on their way to the Yas Marina circuit to drive that 2 seater around the new circuit for a piece for the BBC. To be screened during the Abu Dhabi race weekend.

[skwdenyer]

sniff diesel said:

CivicMan said:

Not the first 2 seater by a long chalk... Arrows, Minardi etc.

There was even a 3 seater Arrows:

Dear old Tom Walkinshaw had many, err, interesting characteristics, but he certainly had a knack for knowing how to knock the socks off his (potential or current) sponsors by devoting some engineering time and money to the problem.

If only the characteristics which got him into the game in the first place hadn't been the same ones which were always going to be his undoing.

[T89 Callan]

CivicMan said:

sniff diesel said:

CivicMan said:

Not the first 2 seater by a long chalk... Arrows, Minardi etc.

There was even a 3 seater Arrows:

I'll raise you :

Was this built on Scrapheap Challenge?

[pedromorgan]

Slighty hijacking the topic, How many of the teams have 2 seaters?

I know McLaren has (or had?) one.
I think Renault has one and i think i remember seeing a reference to a 3 seater?
Ferrari had one. Do they still use it?

Any advance on that
I saw the Minardi X2 cars at Donnington last year. they looked fantastic.

Peter

[Evangelion]

I remember the Arrows 2-seater from when I was working at Orange, they announced there was to be a competition for the staff, the prize being a ride in it. I got really excited until I discovered that all you had to do was answer one really stupid simple question, what F1 team are Orange sponsoring this year or some such nonsense. They might as well have put all our names into a hat.

My suggestion was that everybody should enter a huge F1 quiz with about a hundred questions going right back to the 1950's and that I would set it for them. Obviously this would then mean I couldn't enter, therefore my payment for compiling it was that I would have to be given a ride in the car too.

Funnily enough, the MD never responded to my memo.

[ajprice]

Jake Humphrey said on his blog that Coulthard and Brundle are driving the 2 seater in Abu Dhabi for a piece coming up on the F1 programme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/2009/10/no...

[paulrockliffe]

I really hope the two of them will take it in turns to take EJ round for a gentl spin..... until he's sick.

[Project 644]

paulrockliffe said:

I really hope the two of them will take it in turns to take EJ round for a gentl spin..... until he's sick.

EJ used to race. Don't under-estimate the power of the EJiot.

[Tiganut]

Project 644 said:

paulrockliffe said:

I really hope the two of them will take it in turns to take EJ round for a gentl spin..... until he's sick.

EJ used to race. Don't under-estimate the power of the EJiot.

One of his cars was a March SC81,I missed it when it came up for sale this year

[mcdjl]

pedromorgan said:

Slighty hijacking the topic, How many of the teams have 2 seaters?

I know McLaren has (or had?) one.
I think Renault has one and i think i remember seeing a reference to a 3 seater?
Ferrari had one. Do they still use it?

Any advance on that
I saw the Minardi X2 cars at Donnington last year. they looked fantastic.

Peter

I seem to vaguely remember hearing (maybe from on here) that there were actually fewer cars than there appeared to be and they kept getting new paint jobs for each outing

[FourWheelDrift]

pedromorgan said:

I think Renault has one and i think i remember seeing a reference to a 3 seater?

And an F3 2 seater alongside a Formula Renault 2 seater - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6tM2-ZK674

There's also an CART 2 seater, I'm sure there was a Formula Palmer 2 seater as well. Pretty much every series did one after F1 started the trend.

[Eric Mc]

Don't forget the Renault F1 minibus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEDwfk8EYR0

[Nick M]

Eric Mc said:

Don't forget the Renault F1 minibus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEDwfk8EYR0

Which was actually inspired by an older Ford Transit fitted with a Cosworth DFV !!



There was also an earlier version (Supervan 1) with a Ford GT40 engine, and a later version (Supervan 3) which was built on a Ford C100 race car chassis and originally powered by a mid-mounted 650bhp Cosworth HB F1 engine.

Edited by Nick M on Tuesday 6th October 16:42