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I don't mind the fins personally. I find the ugliest aspect of these cars is the sharp downward slope the noses take. The Force India is especially bad.
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George Zimmer posted:I don't mind the fins personally. I find the ugliest aspect of these cars is the sharp downward slope the noses take. The Force India is especially bad. You are taking the piss right? The Force India looks like somebody glued a sheet of drywall onto the back.
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Let's not argue about which part of the Force India is most bad. It is 100% bad.
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1500quidporsche posted:You are taking the piss right? The Force India looks like somebody glued a sheet of drywall onto the back. It's the least aesthetically pleasing of the three we've seen so far, but on the whole it's perfectly fine IMO. Sauber's looks downright cool.
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iospace posted:So what rule change spurred the return of the shark fins again? Specifically, lowering the rear wing without reducing the overall height allowed for the car introduced the chance to manage airflow over that wing. The smoother you can make that airflow, the more you will reduce drag without lowering the down force generated, and the sharkfin is the lowest weight, lowest drag, highest return method of doing so.
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wicka posted:What could possibly be worse than the new Force India? Perhaps Hamilton's new helmet: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hamilton-reveals-helmet-design-contest-winner-876009/ quote:The Briton had opened a competition for fans, who had the chance to design the helmet he would wear during the upcoming season.   I actually don't mind the front nose at all. Aggressive design. I just hate how it goes up to his harsh cliff of a step and the rest of the car is kind of plain. The sharkfin should absolutely not be that colour. An opportunity to just splash that bit with black or bare carbon fibre completely lost.
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Ban front wing complexity beyond 1998 levels and make them shatterproof, that thing above looks like a loving Xenomorph skeleton.................and will take hours to clean up all 500 million bits of it all over the track. What year was this? 2000? I like it, clean and simple. :getoffmylawn:  When are we all saddling up to go rescue 
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Feb 22, 2017 19:55
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A bare carbon fibre car with all sponsor logos in white would own
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2008 was almost 10 years ago and whenever I look at those F1 cars they still look 10 years AHEAD of all this poo poo coming out. So gently caress you guys. Bring back the aero complexity.
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Feb 22, 2017 19:58
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Since cars in general are no longer attractive, bring on the wild Time Attack aero.
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2008 was the best F1 season of all time and had fiddly aero bits all over the place so IMO they do jack poo poo to hurt racing
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The one thing that affects racing quality in F1 the most isn't fiddly aero or refueling, it's just luck of the draw (and not limiting development) whether two or three teams will have relatively equal cars throughout the year. Which is why you shouldn't do dumb rear end freezes that leaves one team with an advantage over an entire engine formula.
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Alain Post posted:2008 was the best F1 season of all time and had fiddly aero bits all over the place so IMO they do jack poo poo to hurt racing This guy gets it.
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Feb 22, 2017 20:15
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To be honest I have very little nostalgia for F1 cars roughly from 1998-2003. They look boring.
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Alain Post posted:To be honest I have very little nostalgia for F1 cars roughly from 1998-2003. They look boring. They are very ugly. I did like the stupid X-wings, with hindsight.
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I just realised *~earthdreams~* was 10 years ago
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Alain Post posted:The one thing that affects racing quality in F1 the most isn't fiddly aero or refueling, it's just luck of the draw (and not limiting development) whether two or three teams will have relatively equal cars throughout the year. Which is why you shouldn't do dumb rear end freezes that leaves one team with an advantage over an entire engine formula. I'm kinda on the fence about refueling.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1SKqAzmzo Looks good in motion.
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Tsaedje posted:I just realised *~earthdreams~* was 10 years ago Holy hell was that a bad car. I think it single handily ruined all of Honda's credibility in motorsport and they haven't recovered from it since.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Holy hell was that a bad car. I think it single handily ruined all of Honda's credibility in motorsport and they haven't recovered from it since. All of Honda's recent history in F1 has been "let's take a team that's doing alright and ruin them."
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Human Grand Prix posted:I'm kinda on the fence about refueling. Refueling is good. Refueling tied to qualifying as some dumb gimmick is bad.
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Holy poo poo. I first saw the FI reveal pics on Twitter on my phone, and didn't even register the sharkfin because it was so comically huge and blank I thought it was light on the backdrop. Did Vijay just lop the tails off his planes after Kingfisher Airlines went down the toilet and ship them to Silverstone?
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Tsaedje posted:I just realised *~earthdreams~* was 10 years ago Oh yeah? 2015 model year.  (In fairness I did have a WTF moment when I saw it for the first time) Alain Post posted:2008 was the best F1 season of all time and had fiddly aero bits all over the place so IMO they do jack poo poo to hurt racing 2008 was my first full year Watching Formula 1, and I look back on it very fondly but I have wondered until I saw this post weather that was just rose-tinted Nostalgia glasses MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Tsaedje posted:I just realised *~earthdreams~* was 10 years ago I honestly liked the 2008 EARTH DREAM livery (the 2007 livery was a step too far though), shame the car was a steaming pile of poo poo. The loving wheel rim cover / brake cooling things have got a lot to answer for for ruining the look of those cars though. The only thing that can redeem 2017 is an orange mclaren, but I worry that it's just going to remind me of the old arrows livery and they're going to be on a similar level performance wise, and there's no Jenson to make things a bit interesting. 2017 sucks already.  Oh yea, shark fins. The force india looks ridiculous.
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The levels of autism regarding the new car opinions in this thread are off the extremely detailed charts
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Feb 22, 2017 22:53
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You've clearly not been reading the F1 Technical forums.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:I am sorry that you live life like an autist I was actually just making a callback to this post, which was funny to me because I didn't understand what the poster meant What are some technical F1 posts
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Acronyms and using one's poor understanding of fluid dynamics to draw lines on low res photos of cars
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Tsaedje posted:Acronyms and using one's poor understanding of fluid dynamics to draw lines on low res photos of cars But enough about post-Newey Mclaren...
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It's better to be pretty and slow than ugly and slow. that dicknose force india better be really loving fast.
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poty posted:What are some technical F1 posts https://forums.somethingawful.com/query.php?action=posthistory&userid=116626
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poty posted:The levels of autism regarding the new car opinions in this thread are off the extremely detailed charts
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poty posted:What are some technical F1 posts
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BOLD PREDICTION Red Bull are going to catch right up to Mercedes and Horner will be completely insufferable about it.
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Bold Prediction: McLaren are poo poo
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Alain Post posted:Bold Prediction: McLaren are poo poo Normally you are a good poster but this isn't bold at all. Get your poo poo together dude.
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Fine Bold Prediction: Four (4) teams will win Grands Prix in the 2017 F1 season.
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Alain Post posted:Bold Prediction: Four (4) teams will win Grands Prix in the 2017 F1 season. I want whatever you are smoking.
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1500quidporsche posted:I want whatever you are smoking. 
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