Silverish Ferrari?

[toler]

this is a pic of the new McLaren being tested at Silverstone at the moment. Looks familiar....

new:

old:

 

[Mike Rotch]

The new one looks better then the old design. The new nose looks better, but the slats connected to the actual wing are diagonal, whereas the ferraris are more vertical.

 

[Eagle]

McLaren adopted part of the Ferrari nose, which Ferrari actually adapted from McLaren back in 98/99, everyone adopted Ferrari's raised exhaust system, Sauber uses a chassis that's a spitting image of the F2003-GA, Ferrari shortened their wheelbase and reduced the fuel tank size like that of the FW25, it's just a giant cycle.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I think that Mclaren are widening the nose to manage the airflow between the front wheels. It always struck me as odd that they were getting narrower and narrower.

 

[DQuaN]

Renault still use the very thin nose.

 

[Blake]

After the season they've had, all I can say is more power to them.

 

[Dudley]

Given their straightline speed I'm sure they'll be glad to hear that.

 

[gOdLeSs InFiDeL]

Now, if that widened nose only improved reliability . . . .

Unfortunately, though, that's what happens with tightly-controlled regulations - it would be aesthetically nice if F1 cars could have as many varieties in car design as the LMP sports cars, but then it wouldn't be F1, would it? I personally don't care what they look like, as long as they can race well against each other.

Just my $.02 . . .