BMW Sauber C29 launched (Pictures)
The BMW Sauber C29 has an almost sponsor-free livery
BMW Sauber have revealed their 2010 F1 car.
The car lacks any major sponsors although the team announced several deals into the run-up to the launch, some of which feature on the car. They include Scalp-D, a Japanese shampoo, and watch brand Certina.
Here are the first pictures of the C29.
Although the team is no longer run by BMW the team has retained the name in its title. But the car carries on the model designation used by the Sauber team until 2005, when it raced the C24.
The car is now powered by Ferrari and also uses the Ferrari gearbox.
Technical director Willy Rampf described some of the changes to the car:
The increased length of the fuel tank means the car has grown longer overall. And because they are slimmer, the front tyres will be more heavily worked, requiring weight to be shifted further towards the rear of the car.
An eye-catching feature of the C29 is its highly intricate raised nose. Also very distinctive is an extremely long undercut at the transition from chassis into underbody. These and other aerodynamic measures also help to ensure optimum airflow to the double diffuser. Further changes were required to integrate the Ferrari engine and, in particular, the Ferrari gearbox.
Willy Rampf
BMW have also published the car’s basic specifications including some of its dimensions:
Chassis: Carbon-fibre monocoque
Suspension: Upper and lower wishbones (front and rear), inboard springs and dampers, actuated by pushrods (Sachs Race Engineering)
Brakes: Six-piston brake callipers (Brembo), carbon pads and discs (Brembo, Carbon Industries)
Transmission: Ferrari Seven-speed quick shift gearbox, carbon, longitudinally mounted, carbon-fibre clutch
Chassis electronics: MES
Steering wheel: BMW Sauber F1 Team
Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza
Wheels: OZ
Length: 4,940 mm
Width: 1,800 mm
Height: 1,000 mm
Track width, front: 1,495 mm
Track width, rear: 1,410 mm
Weight: 620 kg (including driver, tank empty)
BMW Sauber launch pictures
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- Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi reveal the BMW Sauber C29
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- Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi reveal the BMW Sauber C29
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- Peter Sauber with Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi
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Launch images courtesy of Dank on Twitter | Studio images (C) BMW Sauber
Thanks a ton Keith… lightning fast as usual
BMW sauber this reminds me of Ferrari F2000 with the crazyy shark lid overall looks like an shark
Looks very aggressive. Is that black and white? Can’t wait to see some more pictures!
Yeah it looks great
It seems like there will be more Black cars on the track this year…Renault is going to change the livery to black-yellow – her’s a pic http://f1.avtomanija.com/default.asp?rb=1&id=17461
The car looks pretty compact….maybe its the angle… front looks like last year’s Force India…though the nose is wider
Small ass.
I still think those little rear wings look odd.
It sort of looks like the Williams except with a shark fin.
Bravo Keith, super quick.
It’s the long front nose, shark fin combo again by the looks of it, isn’t it? Becoming a bit of a cliche now!
Glad they’ve not incorporated the RB5 nose. Black & white should look nice actually. But the title pic looks very basic.
Seems like Ferrari are the only ones so far to pick out the bumpy RB5 nose – wonder if there’s something else to the RB5 that made that kink and bulge more useful than it is on other designs.
Both this and the McLaren have fairly flat noses – something BMW were questioned over last year, and ended up revising. Evidently the mantra of Downforce (ie diffuser) wins out over whatever advantage Red Bull were able to get out of the Duck Billed Nose.
thanks keith! i hope this team do well
i like the black and white too.
The front wing looks pretty rudimentary compared to Mcaren and ferrari
Side angle:
http://tazio.uol.com.br/imagens/11783/large.jpg
WOW… looks great from the side!
Looks like its still got the red stripe on it actually…
Sorry McLaren
The car looks great! Very different to what we have seen before. Surprised they used the BMW livery, despite still being called BMW Sauber, but I liked their livery anyway.
You can see Certina on the wing mirrors.
Maybe it’s just the angle but the front nose looks very high and long.
Its long for sure. The nosecone connector is located way behind the bottom face.
The area behind sidepod looks very different from Ferrari, looks like its con-caving far far more than the F10.Looks like it was done to exploit the DDD rule to its fullest.
That area might actually hold the key to channelizing air flow to the DDD.
It’s strange though that Brawn were the team who were judged to have by far the best double diffuser implementation last year, and they had a low, swooped, curving nose that was very close to the front wing. Essentially the opposite of the cars released so far. This makes me all the more interested to see what the Merc looks like.
that reminds me of a Formula BMW…
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81144
It says the car ‘retains the colours used during the BMW era’, but it looks white, black and red to me…
the sidepods might be dark blue actually.
very black.
can’t you see a blue tinge on the sidepod buldge?
ah ok from the studio shot (see comment below) it’s clearly black. my mistake!
I like the wheels
Yep, I like them too, it’s nice to see a team use some different wheels.