Silverstone assembled a collection of over a dozen classic and contemporary F1 cars at the opening of its new pit and paddock complex.
Here are pictures of the cars on show.
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mcmercslr
17th May 2011, 20:25
Good to see a brawn in brawn colours
Ratboy (@ratboy)
17th May 2011, 20:28
Lotus 92 is my fave from there but the MP4-1 and Matra MS80 are close behind it
Mike
18th May 2011, 2:55
I think the Brawn is going to become one of the cars we tell our children hushed stories about.
SamS
18th May 2011, 7:32
I love the Brawn GP it is just so simple and beautiful
Douglas62500
18th May 2011, 8:57
Exactly !! Bring back Double Diffusers !!!!
topdowntoedown (@topdowntoedown)
18th May 2011, 10:47
What, if they’re scared of snowploughs?
The FW14B is the sort of car we’ll never see again. Just as a reminder: in qualifying at the British GP in 1992, Mansell was 2 seconds faster than his team-mate Patrese, who was another second faster than Senna. And we’re surprised these days when the HRT is a couple of seconds off the pace!
An amazing collection there though – any idea where they’ve got them from? I expect the Brawn is Button’s, but what about all the others?
Fixy (@)
18th May 2011, 17:51
It is a lovely car.
King Six
17th May 2011, 20:30
It’s stuff like this that’ll turn some folks at Donnington into super-villians
LuvinF1
18th May 2011, 5:12
Well, isn’t that Lotus 92 with the unusual car number 15 from the Donington Grand Prix Collection Museum? I say unusual because the Lotus 92’s were numbered 11 and 12. In that time period, oddly enough, the number 15 was a Renault.
Icthyes (@icthyes)
17th May 2011, 20:35
I’m glad the cars moved away from the design like the Hesketh. So ugly!
Brawn! I miss Brawn. That Vanwall is so gorgeous too. And an FW14B!? *Drool*
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
17th May 2011, 23:23
That Hesketh is indeed awful.
LuvinF1
18th May 2011, 5:34
Don’t you remember the Ferrari 312B3S “Spazzaneve” or the March Cosworth 711 or the Tyrrell 006? Just to name a few.
Icthyes (@icthyes)
18th May 2011, 10:52
All awful!
maxthecat
17th May 2011, 21:18
Are these a permanent feature or just for the opening?
bosyber
17th May 2011, 21:20
Is that BGP001 the one that Button got, or did they get another one from Mercedes/Brawn?
Icthyes (@icthyes)
17th May 2011, 21:34
There were six. Button got one, another was painted silver for the 2010 “launch”, so they’ve probably got at least one other lying around.
Tom L.
18th May 2011, 11:37
There’s one lying in pieces at Les Combes, along with some bits of McLaren, Renault and Toro Rosso :D
driftin
17th May 2011, 21:26
Very nice. Can’t wait to check this out when I go to the British GP later this year. :D
Mister Nillionaire (@mister-nillionaire)
17th May 2011, 23:08
Loving the Williams FW14B, class.
KaIIe (@kaiie)
17th May 2011, 23:20
Williams FW19 looks actually pretty sexy from that angle, when compared to some of the hideous aerodynamic solutions of the ’97 season.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
17th May 2011, 23:21
I also miss the Brawn, it was so nice. It was good seeing sponsors fill up the car towards the end of the season too ;)
Alfie
18th May 2011, 0:17
Seeexy Brawn. The most innovative car of 2009 and the best looking car since the 90s. How about we give this sort of car another go? It looked like it went full-throttle round most corners even though it obviously didn’t, and in standard definition still looked amazing.
Pweeeease Jean? Bring back 09 regulations?
GeeMac (@geemac)
18th May 2011, 6:16
A nice selection, not “the usual suspects” if you know what I mean.
Dan Thorn (@dan-thorn)
18th May 2011, 7:40
That March 701…Pretty, pretty car. Ditto Williams FW19 and Matra MS80. The 4CLT is nice as well.
F1 Novice
18th May 2011, 8:32
They say if it looks right it is right…… that Brawn BGP001 absolutely looked right as soon as it hit the track proper, albeit late at Barcelona on 9th March 2009 – and eff me was it right :) I have wicked picture of Button just after he got out of the car after his first run in it ….. the smile on his face said it all.
topdowntoedown (@topdowntoedown)
18th May 2011, 10:52
I’d love to see that picture if it’s online anywhere?
F1 Novice
18th May 2011, 16:07
There’s a copy here but it wasn’t taken in Melbourne as this site states
http://papaf1.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_89a/papaf1/52568_2.jpg
Boba
18th May 2011, 9:55
MP4-23 looks like a concept car when you consider it was a time when aerodynamic parts were more sophisticated then ever. With all those winglets and chrome finish it has a distinctive charm I think.
george
18th May 2011, 10:31
Why is there one one BGP car left?
George (@george)
18th May 2011, 17:30
I miss Goodyear :(
F1 Novice
21st May 2011, 8:03
I’ve got one :)
Alex R
18th May 2011, 23:29
Ahh such nostalgia, I’m only 24 so my knowledge of the older cars is a bit lacking, but the livery and design of the FW14B (and all the other Williams liveries) is so firmly ingrained in my memory that upon viewing them I am immediately thrust back to my childhood.
I can recall having a diecast model of the FW14B that I would play with for hours on end, until I damaged it to the point where I could no longer push it around… I can remember vividly proclaiming incorrectly to a friend that it was pronounced “Williams re-nul-T”
It’s times like these I realise what a large part F1 has played in my life up until this point.