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[Bram Turismo]

I think it looks dropdead gorgeous!

 

[AshenGraey]

You just can't go wrong with black and red and they are using the right shade of red too. That Ferrari looks like a winner!

 

[TheCracker]

Red car is surprisingly red. Again.

 

[pumaATTACK]

Best looking Ferrari in years!

 

[MagpieRacer]

Very different side pods to the other teams.

 

[Jezza819]

I think the Ferrari looks awesome.

 

[AshenGraey]

Its so exciting to see the different approach the team takes. I really can't wait to see which team design will come out on top and really nail the new regulations

 

[Keef]

Those sidepods are definitely an interesting shape. A couple ideas I'm thinking of is that the outer rim of the "bathtub" is actually a bypass tunnel around the radiator, similar to William's double-channel sidepod (which apparently was not really supposed to happen with these new regs), and that allows Ferrari to directly funnel that airflow through the sidepod toward the beam wing. It isolates that airflow from any wake around the sides of the car. The airflow for this tunnel will be scavenged from the outer curved, angled edge of the sidepod intake. It likely has a familiar square cooling intake buried inside that we can't see. As for the complex curvature and cooling vents, I'm thinking their organic placement is designed to chase the lowest surface pressure along that body panel, where airflow is moving fast and will suck air out of the radiators efficiently.

If you remove that tunnel on the outer edge which creates the bathtub, I think you'll see that otherwise the shape of the sidepod is really similar to Haas or Mclaren, with a fat front end and tightens quickly toward the rear. But those cars aren't using this clever tunnel to guarantee clean airflow toward the beam wing.

Also, I'm really surprised that Ferrari hasn't slatted the nosecone and instead integrated the slat into the nose. That's about 6 inches of effective area they've potentially lost by doing that. Thus far, everybody else who has debuted an actual car with [/i]actual[/i] wings (aka not RB, AT, and probably not MB) have slatted the nose cone, using its curved underside as an extension of the main wing. I would expect all the rest of the cars to eventually have that design, and frankly I would expect Ferrari to change this design at some point.

All of the real cars we've seen, and particularly those running under their own power, have practically no rake - I'm guessing to get enough air in the front to go through the venturis and get ground effect working.

Red Bull - which showed a livery on an FIA show car - has always (well, since the RB5 at least) run a huge rake, and Newey already said last year that it's going to have to abandon that for the 2022 cars. I wonder how much that's going to affect them after 15 years of designing its cars to work a certain way.

I'm thinking it won't effect them any more than the other teams, especially considering the huge overall regs change. Having the rake to begin with was sort of a band-aid that slipped through the cracks of the old regs which happened to be effective, but that's not a normal way to address underbody aerodynamics at all. These new floors are back to normal, sensible aerodynamics in comparison.

 

[Peter.]

That's the best a Ferrari has looked in a long time, road and race cars included. Hopefully it is not rubbish.

 

[TypeRDC5]

Ferrari has now overtaken the mclaren as my favourite lively. Honestly I like all so far apart from Williams.

Let's see what merc do...

 

[Terronium-12]

Very reminiscent of the 641 and I'm here for it.

 

[Veinz]

The Ferrari is my favorite, I’ve wanted them to do black wings for years. Red and black is hot af.

 

[andrea]

Very different side pods to the other teams.
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[MagpieRacer]

🧐. Don't need to be an F1 engineer to see it's obviously a different car (as expected) but it doesn't half look low and sharp.

 

[DG_Silva]

The only but a really don't like about the new Ferrari is the black lozenge on the air box - the front edge is too sharp for my liking and unnecessary, but I guess that's why I don't design F1 liveries.

 

[SestoScudo]

2022 Ferrari F1 car livery gives me early 80s and 90s vibes especially the colour.

 

[Lion-Face]

The Ferrari looks the part. Very interesting sidepods, I'm really looking forward to how these cars come out in the wash after testing. It will be interesting to see which concept proves to be the best. Ideally though all the concepts are viable and we get quite unique looking cars that are all successful in their own way. That's the dream though isn't it, reality is probably going to be quite boring.

I feel the opposite; the rendered Williams looks boring but the car on track looks really good.

That's interesting, and you don't like the look of the Ferrari after the reveal, where I do. I find the Ferrari and Aston seem to have a real purpose to their design, and that's probably a poor way of describing it, all being F1 cars and all being purposefully designed. I guess it's just their theme or flavour of design which speaks to me. I'm really not a fan of the Williams nose. While the curved nose is quite nice, it looks bulky and a little out of proportion. I do like how sculpted back their sidepods look, but that is the only redeeming feature in an unremarkable design to me.

I don't think their glossy livery helps. Their renders looked more matte and therefore the livery design popped more, but on track it's quite dark and doesn't look as eye catching. I think similar to the problem Aston Martin had last year.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Silver is back. Looks great. Front wing seems to have a slightly different profile to other teams. Very tight looking package overall.

 

[AshenGraey]

Is it me or is the design of the Mercedes very similar to the McLaren?

That aside, that Merc looks like a winner too. Looks super classy

 

[MagpieRacer]

Is it me or is the design of the Mercedes very similar to the McLaren?

That aside, that Merc looks like a winner too. Looks super classy

I guess as they're both packaging the Mercedes PU in a similar way there'll be some similarities, same with the race spec Williams I should think. Front wing is very different to McLaren though.

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[McLaren]

The car in the press renders for the Merc. are different from the car revealed on stream.

 

[Liquid]

Black was an awesome livery and I'm sad that they've gotten rid of it.

 

[Haverstaken]

I like they went back to the silver. Looks ready for another title 😂

 

[AshenGraey]

The car in the press renders for the Merc. are different from the car revealed on stream.

That's very interesting.....I wonder which one is the real design?! 🤔

 

[McLaren]

That's very interesting.....I wonder which one is the real design?! 🤔

From what I read, the stream car is indeed the real car as that's what was/is going to be filmed after the stream. Another comment on Reddit said the render's wheel covers are not to spec.

 

[Famine]

That's very interesting.....I wonder which one is the real design?! 🤔

What if it's neither?

 

[MaxAttack]

With the Mercedes reveal today I can continue putting stock in my theory that the fact the McLaren is the only car mounting the mirrors with just a single strut to the bodywork means it is clearly far and away the fastest car and we are looking at a Brawn GP type dominance of the early season for sure.

You read it here first.

 

[pumaATTACK]

The Merc looks good but I miss the black livery.

 

[Rossell2]

Hopefully this picture answers some questions.