2014 F1 Challengers Thread

[IndyAndy]

Presenting; the STR9:

 

[Retroram52]

I presume this is like the one Vettel will drive.

 

[IndyAndy]

We'll know come tomorrow: That's when RBR unveils their car.

 

[IndyAndy]

Presenting; the RB10...

... and the W05:

Still waiting for word/pics of the new Williams and Caterham.

 

[IndyAndy]

And here at last are the Williams FW36:

... And the Caterham CT05:

"Interesting" nose there, guys.

*****

Marussia say that they may yet get their car on track this week: Stay tuned for further developements

 

[Retroram52]

Nice. Vettel's car just looks way better than say a Caterham which is beginning to look like a few generation of cars ago when say Alain Prost was racing.

 

[IndyAndy]

We don't have a pic of the full car yet, but here's a "sneak peak" at the Lotus' nose, which is already causing no small amount of chatter - and possible controversy:

 

[bored at work]

A joke around Twitter by some of the F1 journalists is that some of the noses appear to have a certain part of the male anatomy attached to the front. Or referring to those cars as male (like STR, McLaren, Red Bull) and the ones with a sort of gap in the nose (like Ferrari, Mercedes, Lotus) as female.

 

[IndyAndy]

Presenting; the Marussia MR03:

& the Lotus E22 (as it stands right now, anyways. See my last post above)

 

[Retroram52]

Indy, I was thinking the same thing as the F1 journalists concerning the penis nose versus the vagina nose. It must be universal. lol.

 

[lakersrule]

Man these nose shapes are highly variable. There are some really whacky designs like the Caterham and Lotus noses. I like everything about the McLaren except the nose.

 

[Retroram52]

You have to admit, the nose and the car of Vettel is just straightforward and no nonsense badass. I just get the feeling that he'll win it all-AGAIN!

 

[bored at work]

I'm eager for the season to start. During the testing the past couple of days, Red Bull has turned the fewest laps because of reliability issues. Will Buxton tweeted that Daniel Riccardo joked that Adrian Newey needed to go back to the drawing board. Although he also pointed out that last season during pre-season testing, Lotus ran very little because of supposed reliability issues...and they won the season's opening race.

 

[Retroram52]

Yea, "reliability issues" is code for "we got us a badass car and we ain't letting anybody else get a look at it for any length of time."

 

[IndyAndy]

^^^ Yeah, that was page one of Ferrari's preseason playbook for the longest time.

I'm interested to see how Riccardo gets along at RBR: Hopefully, by the homestretch of the season he can start to become a podium finisher.

 

[Retroram52]