Video: Renault reveals its 2008 F1 car – the R28
Renault has a lot to make up for with its 2008 car. The R28 has to return the team to its race and championship-winning form of 2005-6.
It will be a few weeks before we know whether the new car can do that. But the R28 has not fixed the other major fault of its predecessor – it’s going to be another year of suffering that horrific, eye-gouging livery.
See below for video and images of the R28 – if you can stand to.
Renault R28 – images
Renault R28 – high resolution images
Renault 2008 R28 launch (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 2 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 3 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 4 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 5 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 6 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 7 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 8 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault 2008 R28 launch 9 (high resolution) | LAT / Renault
Renault R28 studio (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 studio, 2 (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 studio, 3 (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 studio, 4 (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 studio, 5 (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 studio, 6 (high resolution) | ING Renault F1
Renault R28 – video
See the F1 video section for more video of the 2008 F1 cars.
Renault also has a couple of new sponsors thanks to the return of Fernando Alonso. Universia is a Banco Santander brand – the company now dividing its F1 sponsorship between McLaren and Renault since Alonso left the former team.
Will the R28 be a winner? If not, can they at least please fix that horrible livery?
I still think they should have used their 30th anniversary colour scheme instead (here’s some more pictures of the retro Renault).
Photos copyright: LAT / Renault except for the last six which are ING Renault F1
More on the 2008 F1 season
- Pictures: Honda revises ‘Earth car’ livery for 2008 season
- Honda reveal their 2008 F1 car: the RA108
- Williams reveal their 2008 F1 car: the FW30
- BMW reveal their 2008 F1 car: the F1.08
- Toyota reveal their 2008 F1 car: the TF108
- McLaren reveal their 2008 F1 car: the MP4/23
- Ferrari reveal their 2008 F1 car: the F2008
- 2008 F1 drivers and teams
- 2008 F1 calendar
puddum ching said on 31st January 2008, 21:27
It looks like those sidepods have started to melt!
alan said on 31st January 2008, 21:53
Turn the front configuration 90 degrees around and it reminds me of ford’s disaster the edsel’s front grille – and we know what they said it looked like – maybe flavio’s reputation has carried into the cars??
oliver said on 31st January 2008, 23:03
The car though wouldn’t be all that bad, if all it had, was a yellow nose. Having that yellow band split the white and orange was a real catastrophe.
How can any professional organisation endorse these clown outfits? IF this is chic, I want out.
George said on 1st February 2008, 13:01
At least you can’t be confused which car it is when running on the track. If people buy yellow or other strange colored (at least to me) Ferrari’s or Lambo’s, why the outrage over this livery? The Honda’s were much worse! I like it because it’s so different and wild.
If F1 is a circus we have our designated clown car.
Architrion said on 1st February 2008, 14:26
Believe me…. liveries don’t win races
Vertigo said on 1st February 2008, 19:04
Maybe not but I’d much rather watch good-looking cars than a load of Renaults and Hondas (blech).
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 2nd February 2008, 11:10
How ironic that Renault should use such excellent photography of a truly awful paint job. I’ve just added six more of their excellent pictures of the car in motion, and there’s high resolution versions as well. Give them credit, they do an excellent job of releasing images of the car. If only it looked better…
George said on 2nd February 2008, 14:57
Thanks for the additional pics, it just shows that the big benefit of this color scheme is one can see all the detail of the body aero bits. I think most teams deliberately opt for dark side body paint schemes to camo their designs.