What F1 car is this? (15 posts)

  • Profile picture of damonsmedley damonsmedley said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    @iamsa8 and I went to the Australian Grand Prix on the weekend, and we came across an old F1 car painted in a promotional livery for the event. Being fanatics, we couldn’t help but wonder what it originally was. So here’s a fun game for everyone — guess the car!

  • Profile picture of duncanmonza duncanmonza said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    The 2 seater is a Minardi, this is painted the same so maybe it is too?
    It doesn’t look very real though.

  • Profile picture of Adam Tate Adam Tate said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Jordan 198?

  • Profile picture of Adam Tate Adam Tate said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Arrows A22 or so?

  • Profile picture of DavidS DavidS said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    It’s probably a fake…most of those promo cars are.

  • Profile picture of Meander Meander said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I don’t think it’s fake. It seems so famiiliar!

  • Profile picture of Asanator Asanator said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I reckon it is a 1999 BAR Honda – the dual livery horribleness!

  • Profile picture of glue glue said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    It is the BAR 001, looking at the nose shape and the overhead air intake.

  • Profile picture of Meander Meander said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Very well spotted! I was searching in the right years, but wrong teams.

    On a side note, how BAR thought they would be winning races with this thing beats me – it’s such a simple car!

  • Profile picture of Andy2286 Andy2286 said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    That’s very impressive guys… I feel humbled

  • Profile picture of nefor nefor said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I thought it was a Minardi as per Duncanmonza’s suggestion. The car on this page looks very similar: http://www.minardif1x2.com/

    Infact if you Google “Minardi Swisse F1 two seater” you get a number of articles about it.

  • Profile picture of glue glue said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    It is quite primitive, even compared to 1999 standards. Most of the other teams had gone for sculpted noses (with the EJ10 being an extreme example http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5522), angled/curved front wing mounts (http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5422), more aggressive and less boxy side-pod entries such as these two beauties, the Stewart SF2 and the Prost AP01

    http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5356

    and the AP02 was a looker as well, with the stubbed, gilled corner of the sidepod http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5432
    along with the Arrows A20 with its rear outlet ‘humps’ in the sidepods http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5467

    There was such variety in car design back then, but it also struck the right balance between having distinguishable cars through significant shapes (sidepods, front wing, headrest etc) and not a masively unbalanced field of cars (relative to the 70s innovations, for instance). These 2012 stepped-nosed vaccum cleaners are depressing sometimes.

  • Profile picture of bearforce1 bearforce1 said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    It looks like a kit car. Or a feeder class car to the feeder classes designed by some bloke in Byron.

  • Profile picture of PaulM PaulM said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Looks precisely like the BAR001. Found this picture where the BAR seems to look exactly the same.

    http://www.autoviva.com/bar_001_supertech/version/25142

  • Profile picture of damonsmedley damonsmedley said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Well, I think you guys got it!

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