I miss this F1 Body Style

The F2007 is one of my favorite Ferraris ever. Fantastic looking car and I loved the metallic paint they ran on it.

 

A 2.0 V12, that would sound fantastic.

 

The nose looks clumsy compared to the 2014 RBR.

For me, I just didn't like the way the cars of the end of Spec V10, and beginning of spec V8 raced. Very bland racing - when a re-run of that era comes on - I can't stick with the race.

If I picked something to bring back - it would be the early 1990's or late 1980's. Clean styled machines that were quite twitchy at the edge. The 2014 Rule Book brought us closer, but the "green" factor keeps it from being quite as good as it could be.

The F2013 and F2012 were ruined by rule mandated massive front wings. The step nose 2012 Ferrari is really a very good looking car aside from the front wing. The 2009 suits me much better than the '08/'07 cars.

 

Awesome car. The front wing and nose are like art.

 

The whole car is art.

 

Someone asked which of today's F1 cars has the "least ugliest" nose.

The answer is "who cares". In a world of ugly noses, they are all ugly.

The degree of ugliness does not matter.

 

I think the naked carbon fiber prow of the Red Bull and the way it sweeps back. Its a very beautiful F1 car, and quite the unexpected pleasant surprise on the grid. Its a far better looking car than many of the cars on the grid for the past few years as the giant supremely ugly oversize front wings required on the cars have made every car for several years quite awfull looking.

A pity Ferrari didn't build it, it'd look fantastic in red with the same naked carbon leading edge.

 

That's a real F1 car. Any of the early 2000's looks of the F1 cars are nice as well.

 

+1

It's simply gorgeous.

Remember back when everyone was complaining that the V10s and V8s were ugly???




Mark

 

Yup - I remember, and I still think they're ugly. 1992 was probably the last year where *most* of the cars on the grid were good looking. Ferrari's have varied a lot, I like the 2001, 2009, and 2012 Ferrari's. Mclaren managed to produce some good looking(and competitive) race cars even when much of the field was quite ugly. Each year generally had one, maybe two teams with good looking cars, but overall, the field was pretty ugly.

Hindsight is selective, so we see the Toro Rosso out there and want to scream bloody murder at how ugly it is and how F1 is ruined - forgetting already the Williams "tusk nose", etc....

 

TOTAL agreement! can't stand the anteaters that began to show up in the mid 90's!



I'll take most brabhams from the 80's or

Ferrari 187 (skinned as Benetton)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9E_qnol7n2c/UrhzClWCi-I/AAAAAAAAJaA/uxK6-yL1dhA/s1600/Tyrrell+Benetton.72.jpg

as ferrari - http://www.turkiyef1.com/site_media/images/otherseries/bigs/michele-alboret-6.jpg

or something like the Sauber C12 - http://f1.imgci.com/PICTURES/CMS/700/758.jpg

 

I like the wide-body cars of the 90's. I really miss that look. Those looked like real race cars.

 

I love the V12 engined cars. Formula 1 should be powerful and over the top.
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I keeps saying it.... F1 needs to get rid of the wings and wind tunnels and just go back to making the cars have better mechanical grip, acceleration, and deceleration like REAL STREET CARS do.

They can use computer programs for aero management but everyone should get the same software package (big teams and small teams).

This would even up the series, make passing more possible, make the cars have a stronger bond with real street cars, and make the differences with the drivers more distinguishable.


But no... we have a bunch of ugly looking and sounding cars with only 2 teams running the show every year, no passing except in silly DRS zones, and costs that have gone so much through the roof that few major makers want to be involved anymore because it's not worth it.

Just imagine how much interesting cars would look and act if there were no wind tunnels to tell designers to tell them how to design the cars.

There's WAY too much emphasis on aero in F1, which is why we have what we have today. The rules makers keep coming up with ways to reduce aero and we get a batch of cars that look silly from all the compromises and restrictions.

 

There is absolutely no way to ban "aero" what has been learned cannot be unlearned. The top NASCAR teams have tons of aero guys and its a "spec" series.

 

I didn't say "ban" aero. I said control it. Just outlaw wind tunnels. DONE.

You can use computer programs but no more ions of wind tunnel testing that drives up development costs.

How did they do it in the old days? They looked at it and said -- Hmmm, that looks pretty aerodynamic.

Was that so terrible?

Why do you think people love cars from the 60's so much. It was when designers were designers and not engineers being designers.

 

Just a random question...do you guys prefer the F2007, or the F2008?

 

That seems to be a little bit of a contradiction, cause the pic shows an overly busy front wing. The F 187 I linked was clean and sleek.

Then this should be enjoyable, the 412 T1, the best sounding n/a F1 car of all time. Not posted before.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOCP6JWQt_0]Ferrari Formula 1 - V12 Engine - Modena Trackdays 2013 [HD] Pure Sound - Rally TV - YouTube[/ame]

 

Now we're talking! 1989 Ferrari 640 V12.

+1000

 

F2007-

 

That's what F1 should sound like...anyone who have said this year's cars sound great are in denial.

 

If only we could put the genie back in the bottle sometimes .... (sigh)

Trouble is real street cars also have wings, spoilers, diffusers, traction control, stability control and suchlikes these days ...

We cannot bring back the Roman chariots!

 

this probably best fits here, great all the way especially @ 1:50

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qitCCq5Mc[/ame]

 

Absolutely agree! That is why the 412 is front and center in my Ferrari hallway!
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