2013 F1 cars

[DrDrew]

Thought like last year I'd do a thread of these to keep them all in one place for anyone interested.

First out of the marks, the Lotus Renault

 

[DrDrew]

First out with a modesty panel - McLaren MP4/28.

https://i.imgur.com/p30HIDC.jpg

*Edit first image was huge - so found a smaller one and made the high res one a link

 

[DrDrew]

Third launch, the Ferrari F138.

 

[DrDrew]

And Force India Have launched their VJM06 today too...

 

[Ollie133cup]

That ferrari! Sexy beast.

 

[DrDrew]

Ferrari seem to have done an amazing job with sculpting their side-pods. They should be able to control that airflow very nicely. Not entirely sure on the nose tip personally. The modesty panel does a good job - but looks a bit odd with it going quite so far forwards with its step.

 

[maggi200]

The Force India looks totally odd. The nose looks swollen, looked better without the vanity plate

 

[DrDrew]

The nose does look quite like a blend of the VJM04 and VJM05. I'm expecting a number of these launches to be missing at least one "special" feature which will feature at one of the tests/the first race

 

[lgonzalez]

Dumb question time...what the modesty panel?

 

[maggi200]

Pretty much a faux cover over the 'duck bill' or stepped nose. Makes it appear like it hasn't got a step

 

[DrDrew]

^^ yep, exactly. Designed to entirely disintegrate in the event of a crash, so there's no extra factor in safety (though I'm wondering what will happen if someone knocks their nose cone onto the back of another car and makes a little hole. Could be interesting consequences. ).

Some teams will chose to run without one if they haven't seem the potential for an aero benefit, otherwise they're wasting valuable r&d time.

 

[DrDrew]

Sauber C32

Red Bull RB9

Merc W04

Toro Rosso STR8

 

[maggi200]

I reckon the sauber is the nicest looking so far

 

[Lordyb]

I'm digging the merc!

 

[maggi200]

The front nose certainly looks good. But I actually laughed that it has blackberry on the side :lol:

 

[BlackTwingo-i]

Surprised its not called the iMerc WO4

 

[DrDrew]

Caterham CT03

And it surprised me just how far in front of the front wing Caterham have extended the nose cone!

Marussia MR02

 

[maggi200]

That wing can't be final, it's tiny!

 

[133_Ads]

The Caterham looks like a Render?

 

[DrDrew]

Believe those photos of the caterham were from a studio shoot