F1 Fanatic

F1 car – Jochen Rindt, Brabham 1968., never raced

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Not F1 car, but Indy car. Very ugly. Ken Hamilton, EAF-Chervolet, 1982. Indianapolis

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I quite liked last years McLaren, certainly looked better than Saubers squash top of an effort. Ferrari was to plain, Brawn was a bit dayglo but looked fantastic in Merc livery, I thought FI was the best of a bad bunch because it contrived to look old school.

I loved last year’s Brawn! The vast sponsor-free white, the touches of neon yellow/green and the low, flat nose I thought made it look miles better than most of the 2009 cars. The MP4-24, on the other hand…

damnb robr that looks bad indeed :)

Yeah that was one fugly McLaren.

And it’s also the car in which Mansell’s career sputtered to an embarrassing end…

The redeeming feature of the March 711 is that it was successful – Ronnie Peterson in a 711 was runner up to Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell in 1971. It may not have been the prettiest car in the world but it worked.

Unlike the March 721X, which was extremely ugly and so awful that it nearly killed Niki Lauda’s F1 career before it got going. The thinking behind 721x was to reduce the polar movement of inertia by concentrating as much of the car as possible between the front and rear axle lines. It failed to work and was hastily replaced by the 721G – G standing for Guiness Book of World Records, relating to the lack of time to construct it.

Wow that EAF Chevrolet was horrid! It looks like it has a cannon on the back. Or a jet engine…