Comments on: BMW tests its 2009 Formula 1 car prototype – and it ain’t pretty (Pictures)

By: Markieye

Markieye — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:45:45 +0000

I disagree. The wider front wing and taller back wing makes it look like a scorpion

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:51:40 +0000

This is a very beautiful car. I wish I could drive it!

By: colm

colm — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:43:43 +0000

it looks like its from the 1970s

By: Yosu

Yosu — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:11:53 +0000

Yikes!!! *** is this ?!? it looks worse than the cars from the 70′s. After all the money and tech., this is all they came up with a car that looks like a pimped out Go-cart??

By: Iceman

Iceman — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:04:15 +0000

wow the 2009 cars look absoultely terrible. Just, FUGLY!
Abominations! God max, were you drinking when you dreamed up such eye sores? Leave the danm cars alone and let the constructors build the best danm car they could put on the track. Standard ecu, engines, dumbed down aero specs and all that nonsense.

By: Bert Geyer

Bert Geyer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:05:26 +0000

That front wing is hung like Max Mosley!

By: lost

lost — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:11:45 +0000

huge mistake by the fia. the front wing is tooo wide. the car looks ugly as hell and is going to be very easy to knock it off when fighting for position. hey mosley.. maybe your new front wing is not going to help with close racing after all.

i think the new rear wing is ok, and i’m happy that all those winglets are finally gone.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:54:46 +0000

@ 70 Robert McKay

The general opinion is F1 needs more overtaking, this simply isn’t true and these cars will certainly not provide it. Formula One by nature will produce race grids with little scope for position changes. These abomination aerodynamics will do nothing to change this characteristic of the sport and so we will still have half a dozen races which your describe as processional. What do we have to gain from these regulations? Perhaps some vanilla repositioning on the opening laps of races. What do we have to lose? The build up and anticipation over many laps, the anxiety over whether or not Lewis or Kimi will have a go into turn 1 this time around!

Ask yourself this, do you actually expect a Ferrari that has qualified behind a Toyota, to overtake that Toyota and then stay close enough so that the Toyota will overtake it on the next lap, creating a battle of Gilles-Rene like legend? Of course not, the Ferrari is just going to drive off into the distance. How is this exciting to you, or anyone?

As has been said by Windsor many times, if overtaking is all you covet, there’s plenty of places to go and get your fix. Leave F1 alone.

By: Gaga

Gaga — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:32:01 +0000

higher and narrower rear wing scares me to death. it’s horrible!!

By: marvin guillen

marvin guillen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:00:11 +0000

OH! my lord. Hope not to see does cars in 2009.They`re UGLY!!!
FIA listen to the fans. Beautiful sport means the same for the cars. BMW,HONDA and others don`t make this mistakes.I hope not to see the rear wing that high.
I`m big fan (Ferrari to say) of F1.Don`t break my heart.