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Another angle. Looks worse.

Looks like they've got a double tea-tray splitter. The bit with the silver forward edge is the standard tea tray splitter, but they've got the more curved carbon fibre flap above that. I'm assuming that the latter helps deal with the downwash coming off the bottom of the nose wedge.

Still fugly though.

Bleaurgh! Given that looking at beautiful cars whizzing round is pretty much the entire appeal of F1 you'd think it wasn't 't beyond the wit of man to come up with regs which preclude designers coming up with repugnantly ugly cars.

isn't all about the best drivers, in fast cars, racing?

I never get the 'ugly car' shit that goes on before every f1 season.

How do they replace a broken front wing? I can't see a join etc...

between the r and the h ?

oh the suspension is through the nose cone
how can it be removed ?

it is testing though probably not the finished cars

You can see where the nose comes off just where the suspension joins the chassis.

Yeah on the Williams above you can see the seam in the light on the left hand side of the nose by the suspension.

You can see where the nose comes off just where the suspension joins the chassis.

Good spot. Is it usually that far back? It'll make it fun to change a broken nose.

Yep, the tub will always end just in front of the front suspension so that you can run the torsion bars down the upper edges of the tub (or bottom edges if you're using pullrods rather than pushrods), with the push or pullrod acting on a rocker bolted to the front of the tub. The nose is the whole bit forward of that. Changing one generally isn't an issue given the number of people who are around to lend a hand, the light weight of the nose, and the QR couplings that hold them on.

I guess having the nose connect as far back as possible is better for weight distribution. Don't think there's anything mechanical ahead of the front suspension. Hydraulic brake stuff perhaps.

Can anyone summarise the changes to the rules that are causing these damn ugly noses? And why the FIA have put the changes in?
Thanks

Basically, the end of the nose has to be much lower than previously(365mm lower to be precise), albeit only the tip of the nose. The idea is to prevent injury on side-on impacts and to prevent the car in front being launched into the air (like Mark Webber when he got shunted by a Caterham) in a rear impact.

Basically, the end of the nose has to be much lower than previously(365mm lower to be precise), albeit only the tip of the nose. The idea is to prevent injury on side-on impacts and to prevent the car behind being launched into the air (like Mark Webber when he got shunted by a Caterham) in a rear impact.

ftfy

isn't all about the best drivers, in fast cars, racing?

I never get the 'ugly car' shit that goes on before every f1 season.

Not for me. I don't really care who wins. I just like to look at the beautiful/brutal machinery doing seemingly impossible and dengerous things whilst making earthshattering noises.

Ok slight, exageration but really the team politics, driver personalities and points competions have very little interest for me. It's the sheer boyish thrill of the spectacle that drags me back... often against my will.

...the spectacle...

The what? The most spectacular thing about most F1 races is Eddie Jordan's choice of shirt. Processional racing with uncontested DRS-assisted overtaking and precious little proper racing.

F1 1979 - Gilles Villeneuve vs Rene Arnoux - Dijon - Original in English! - YouTube

Interesting rear suspension on the McLaren. Pretty clever way to replace the lower rear wing mainplane that is now gone for this year.
Supposed to increase downforce on slow corners and decrease drag at high speed.

F1 1979 - Gilles Villeneuve vs Rene Arnoux - Dijon - Original in English! - YouTube

love the fans on that one corner
one lap on their feet and cheering
next lap sitting down and glum

Doesn't look too good for Renault engines atm.

Marussia car is does look after lush IMO, shame it won't be fast...

Looks alright. Hopefully they can have a bit of reliability in the early races, and get a few decent results.

Well they're using the Ferrari engines, so probably yes compared to the Renault boys atm.

awesome. Paint plz

Apparently this will happen.