2018 F1 car reveals / leaks etc

Just for fun, Iraq a few years ago: in my Army Combat Shirt with black and white (really black and drab, subdued) flag before a mission, driver is not going on the mission, so he's wearing a color flag. Another example of the military saying "hurry up and wait" at a helicopter pad.

 

Are they trying to lure Max in with those colours?

 

The inspiration for the McLaren color scheme

An over ripe Papaya with blue mold.

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First reason for Bruce Mclaren to paint it orange was to make lapped cars aware of them coming to overtake in their rear view mirrors.

Reason now might be to make others aware of them broken down by the side of the track...

 

Ferrari changed its red so many times we can't even count them. I don't understand this "heritage" thing when you have to explain to people why your car color combo is to ugly.

By far the best livery this year is the Renault. But then black paint hides a lot of ugliness.

 

Maybe to force sponsors to give in and pay more money to cover it up a bit more. Those are pretty small stickers for Dell and Petrobras.

 

BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS

Itty bitty stickers.

 

So far.......


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how bout this comparo fella's

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Mercedes finally got some rake but still nowhere near the ferrari. Downhill is faster!

 

Ferrari's inspiration...
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If Ferrari and Merc would just switch to the black wheels, both cars would look soooooo much better.

 

I love that the new Mclaren is mostly orange but man, they need to hire graphic designers with some taste. It looks fine but Im amazed they managed to f up a simple black and orange car.

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Very interesting. Did not know that!

 

Well it's still Pink.....

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A new partner joins the #SFIFamily! We are pleased to welcome DUO, a market leading industrial engineering brand, as a new partner ahead of the 2018 season.

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What RedBull tried to "airbrush" out in the release photo's.

 

playing head games...

 

Never tooooo early for those games to begin

 

Hmmm.......There's something very familiar about the Ferrari SF71H!

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Red, with a white strip running from the nose to the back and then over the top of the car, and a high rake angle .......


.......Got it!:
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Let's just hope the Ferrari handles better than the Striped Tomato!

 

I bet Starsky can get in(sliding across the hood) and get out faster in that Turino than the SF71-H!!!.....

 

Renault Reveal Cross-Platform Sports Partnership with Spanish LaLiga

 

Really good article about the differences of the cars from last year to this

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12536/11263127/f1-in-2018-the-new-cars-analysed

 

the newly "updated" RS18 hits the track for its shakedown. The launch RS18 was a different one.

Renault RS18 follow up analysis

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To say I was disappointed when I first saw the RS18 renders would be an understatement, as I’ve long held the view that 2018 could be their breakthrough year.

A huge investment in staff and infrastructure along with securing the ‘temporary’ transfer of Carlos Sainz Jnr from the Red Bull stable was enough to convince me they were on their way back to the head of the field.

The team conducted a filming day (read as shakedown) in Barcelona today and whilst the car still wasn’t fully prepared with all the bells and whistles we can expect to be bolted onto it during next weeks first test, it was at least a physical representation of their 2018 challenger.


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The first thing to note is that the team appear to have taken some inspiration from McLaren, with a hole present in both of the fluted front wing pillars [1], improving airflow around what are a long surfaces. Just in behind this would appear to be the ‘S’ duct inlet [2], mimicking where McLaren chose to have theirs last season. When we get to the turning vanes [3] it appears they may have switched playbooks as the bellmouth shape is distinctly similar to the ones seen on the Red Bull in recent years.

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The bargeboards [4] used in this filming day (cough, shakedown) are also new and have a distinct feel of last years Force India about them, featuring a graduated drop away with numerous vertical serrations along that length. It’s difficult to make out in this grainy image (sorry I had to hack it out of a fairly low resolution video) but there also appears to be a smaller notched pre-bargeboard ahead too.

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Having switched to a blown axle [5] during last years campaign it’s of no surprise that the new car does indeed feature one too, assisting the front wing in its duties of reigning in the wake created by the front tyre.

Atop the chassis we find what appear to be a couple of long wedge shaped winglets [6], as the team look to define how flow moves around this area of the chassis, which is understandable given its proximity to the halo, which will disrupt the airflow.

The team also appear to have utilised a pair of extremely long floor slots [7], similar to the ones used by McLaren in 2016, reaching forward from the tyre squirt deck in front of the rear tyre, rather than an extension of the extremely long forward slots used by McLaren in their filming day / shakedown.

Talking of the tyre squirt deck it would also appear that the team have arched the outer profile of the floor ahead of the rear tyre [8], as they look to create a more intense vortex that’ll hit the face of the tyre and push flow around it.

At the rear of the car the team appear to have, like McLaren, upended the exhausts tailpipe [9], as they look to use the excitable energy of the exhaust plume to help drive the diffuser and rear wings aero. Interestingly it would appear that they’ve also double barreled the wastegate pipes and placed them under the main exhaust outlet, rather than beside it.

The testing work that can be conducted whilst undergoing one of these ‘filming days’ is very limited but it would appear that the team were eager to keep an eye on the interaction of the exhaust plume with the underside of the rear wing, with what appears to be a row of heat strips attached to a deliberately unpainted mainplane [10] (blue stickers).

Again, I still await to see the full force of Renault’s might when they start testing in Barcelona next week, however, the signals from today at least provide better news than the renders did earlier in the week.

http://www.somersf1.co.uk/2018/02/renault-rs18-follow-up-analysis.html

 

Must say I like Alonzo's new F1 ride. If it goes as nice as it looks they could be the surprise of the year.

 

VF18 on track during filming day.......Jack Jones???? Who dat??

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