Ponty Posted 10 February, 2010 Share Posted 10 February, 2010 I like it! Looks almost retro. Reminds me of the cars of 10 or 15 years ago (which is no bad thing!) Looks like a Toyota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chin Strain Posted 10 February, 2010 Share Posted 10 February, 2010 Looks like a Toyota. Probably needs new brakes / accelerator / steering then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Lotus: Livery looks like an early '90s Jordan. Not bad though. Just stick a '7UP' logo on the side and it woule be hard to tell the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Bob Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Looks like a Toyota. I was talking more about the livery combined with the cleaner lines of this generation of cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightysaints Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 How about this for a radical change. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81386 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Bob Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 How about this for a radical change. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81386 would love to see 30 of those flying round a circuit together. Surely the handling would be a pig with that front track though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Virgin seem to be having a spot of bother with their "Virtually Designed" car. It seems to have only been virtually built too, with bits dropping off in pit lane yesterday and the front wing assembly dropping off today. With no spares available they have finished testing for the second day, 10 seconds off the pace and with 16 whole laps covered in the two days so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 12 February, 2010 Share Posted 12 February, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 12 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 12 February, 2010 Sorry Ponts, but even glistening in a soft twighlight, that is the ugliest f**king machine on the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 12 February, 2010 Share Posted 12 February, 2010 Your pilot's license must've been bought off eBay if you think that's an ugly car. Have you not seen the Sauber, the duckbill on the front of the Virgin, the nose camera mess on the Willies or the Le Tissier nose of the chuffing RedBull? There are a lot of ugly cars this year but ours isn't one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 12 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 12 February, 2010 Your pilot's license must've been bought off eBay if you think that's an ugly car. Have you not seen the Sauber, the duckbill on the front of the Virgin, the nose camera mess on the Willies or the Le Tissier nose of the chuffing RedBull? There are a lot of ugly cars this year but ours isn't one. Way to throw to completely unrelated factors together. Besides, it was in a pack of cornflakes. Not saying the rest are pretty, or that yours is the worst, but only a mother (which I guess could include you) could love that. Why can't you make another R25? P.S. I think the Virgin and Sauber are two of the better looking cars actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 13 February, 2010 Share Posted 13 February, 2010 Way to throw to completely unrelated factors together. Besides, it was in a pack of cornflakes. Not saying the rest are pretty, or that yours is the worst, but only a mother (which I guess could include you) could love that. Why can't you make another R25? P.S. I think the Virgin and Sauber are two of the better looking cars actually. Not really unrelated because I was implying that you must be blind Besides, if you think those two are among the better looking then we'll always have to disagree on this subject so let's put that behind us right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 13 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 13 February, 2010 Out of interest, which none wasp-based car do you think is the best looking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 14 February, 2010 Share Posted 14 February, 2010 Ummmmm... they're all a bit ugly really, due to the large front wing and tiny rear wing, but I guess I'd say the Lotus because it doesn't have that broken nose syndrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 15 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2010 The New Campos Not sure about that diffuser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 15 February, 2010 Share Posted 15 February, 2010 Their press-released CAD images look a hell of a lot like the R30 with an R29 rear wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Bob Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Your pilot's license must've been bought off eBay if you think that's an ugly car. Have you not seen the Sauber, the duckbill on the front of the Virgin, the nose camera mess on the Willies or the Le Tissier nose of the chuffing RedBull? There are a lot of ugly cars this year but ours isn't one. Have to agree with Ponty on the Renault. I think it's definately one of the nicer cars this year. My ugly prize is shared between the McLaren and Ferrari at the moment. Despite the fact they appear to be totally useless the Virgin cars are the nicest I've seen so far. Really like the Lotus as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 16 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Heikki at the Lotus team launch. Like their livery, but not sure about their team wear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Bob Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 Now I've seen more pictures this is definately the nicest car out there this season. My favourite for quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatvianTolix Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 Lotus design reminds me Jaguar team cars. Really hope that this season would be one of the greatest and competitive for some time..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 They had a very impressive first day, reliability wise. Certainly they've blown the Virgin project into the weeds. However, they don't appear to be very quick (not that Petrov set the world alight today). That said, they're currently running without power steering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 2 March, 2010 Author Share Posted 2 March, 2010 Looks like a few engineers at teams such as oooohhh.... Renault might have been wasting time chasing a red herring. http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/image/9885.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 2 March, 2010 Share Posted 2 March, 2010 Looks like a few engineers at teams such as oooohhh.... Renault might have been wasting time chasing a red herring. http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/image/9885.html You think we spotted stickers only when F1 Live revealed them? Come on, Ari'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 2 March, 2010 Author Share Posted 2 March, 2010 You think we spotted stickers only when F1 Live revealed them? Come on, Ari'. So this isn't another McLaren rear break pedal then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 3 March, 2010 Share Posted 3 March, 2010 Campos to be known as Hispania Racing according to the beeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry the Badger Posted 5 March, 2010 Share Posted 5 March, 2010 HRT Racing. Quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Bob Posted 5 March, 2010 Share Posted 5 March, 2010 HRT Racing. Quality. Nice looking car though; Glad to see someone else not using those hideous fin things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry the Badger Posted 5 March, 2010 Share Posted 5 March, 2010 Has a team ever gone to the first race without any actual testing before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 5 March, 2010 Author Share Posted 5 March, 2010 Has a team ever gone to the first race without any actual testing before? In 1997 Lola turned up to the curtain raiser in Melbourne, couldn't get within about 10s of the pace in practice and qualy and were never seen again. Couldn't tell you how much testing they had though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 5 March, 2010 Share Posted 5 March, 2010 Has a team ever gone to the first race without any actual testing before? I'm pretty sure that the Gustav Brunner led 2001 Minardi arrived in Australia having only completed a shakedown run (if that..... From what I remember they were completing their second car for Tarso Marques in the garage only the night before first practice.) It was nowhere near Lola levels of bad, indeed, in the hands of Fernando Alonso it performed some very respectable performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 5 March, 2010 Share Posted 5 March, 2010 In 1997 Lola turned up to the curtain raiser in Melbourne, couldn't get within about 10s of the pace in practice and qualy and were never seen again. Couldn't tell you how much testing they had though. I believe it had a shakedown run at Santa Pod or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 5 March, 2010 Author Share Posted 5 March, 2010 I'm sure prost nearly missed the start of the season once because their car failed a crash test. Think it was in 1998. Just scraped onto the grid. That was a s**t car too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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