Ferrari launch thread

Sparky · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:02

Spie said:
Horrible looking car. This ranks as one of the worst in F1 history.

FIA regs dictate pretty much what we can do looks wise.

Sparky · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:03

Type_R said:
As long as it annihilates Red Bull I shall be happy

Yeh a bit of competition would be nice lol

Skeeter · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:03

englishpremier said:
I've never bought into that ugly car nonsense, it's there to win races why do people care if it looks like a turd.

With every change people seem to say the cars are ugly, then after a season or so completely forget about them.

Come next season everyone will be used to the cars and nothing more will be said about the nose.

Yeah, I know what you mean about the changes, especially with the 2009 spec wings that were quite a shock to everyone.

But I don't think these punched in the face noses are going to grow on anyone.

Shimmy · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:19

Sparky-F1 said:
FIA regs dictate pretty much what we can do looks wise.

So that's the RB8 with an ugly nose too.

Skeeter · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:22

Well RBR started the whole high nose movement, so I doubt they would drop it.

We can only hope its rather more shapely than the Ferrari.

GravyMonster · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:35

Bennah said:
Interesting to see they've gone with a smaller air box above the main one. Must be a benefit for something.

McLaren had a similar inlet last year. It's to help with cooling the KERS and hydraulics.

Sparky · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:36

Quicker will do. Not liking the Ferrari pull rod front end, bump,snap,fail im thinking!

FreeStream · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:48

Sparky-F1 said:
FIA regs dictate pretty much what we can do looks wise.

So how have McLaren managed to have a smooth transition? :confused:

The step looks fugly and ridiculous.

Sparky · 3 Feb 2012 at 23:51

Concorde Rules said:
So how have McLaren managed to have a smooth transition?

The step looks fugly and ridiculous.

Lowered the chassis,thats not to say that is the chassis they crash tested of course.

Glaucus · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:05

Sparky-F1 said:
Lowered the chassis,thats not to say that is the chassis they crash tested of course.

Why would they do that, when they ran a low nose last year and as such not affected by this step.
Not perfect camera angle, but shows no change in height.

Sparky · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:09

Look how the angle of the chassis changes relative to the front wheel.

Glaucus · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:12

What do you mean, assume your talking about rake. Which could just be lack of floor/rear diffuser. Seeing as the front splinter looks about the same angle. Top of the nose looks prety much same height allyhough it slops down more towards the point.

Sparky · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:17

Could be floor, without having access to their CAD its hard to tell

Id hazard a guess that the release tub does not goto testing.

Glaucus · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:19

Probably not, but as the floor is half the depth of last years car and they obviously not going to show floor/diffuser of. It would make sense that floor would expand to same depth as last years car, cone testing. Same with front and probably rear wing.

Skeeter · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:19

Sparky-F1 said:
Not liking the Ferrari pull rod front end, bump,snap,fail im thinking!

The push rod setup didn't work to well for Massa in India though?

And isn't the height limit of the nose taken from the reference plane, not the ground?

Overlag · 4 Feb 2012 at 09:58

i dont see how pull rod is going to work at such a shallow angle. If the nose is so high, whats wrong with the normal push rod system?

Pull rod makes sense at the rear end because you want it all tightly packed, but at the front?

Shimmy · 4 Feb 2012 at 10:14

Overlag said:
i dont see how pull rod is going to work at such a shallow angle. If the nose is so high, whats wrong with the normal push rod system?

Pull rod makes sense at the rear end because you want it all tightly packed, but at the front?

Lower CoG.

Overlag · 4 Feb 2012 at 10:16

Shimmy said:
Lower CoG.

if they was worried about lower COG they would have lowered the nose instead of having that step.

Shimmy · 4 Feb 2012 at 10:43

Overlag said:
if they was worried about lower COG they would have lowered the nose instead of having that step.

They've decided, like most teams, that having a high nose is more beneficial to feed air to the floor at the rear.

Pull rod helps with the CoG, I doubt they've done it for any other reason.

Overlag · 4 Feb 2012 at 11:23

Shimmy said:
They've decided, like most teams, that having a high nose is more beneficial to feed air to the floor at the rear.

Pull rod helps with the CoG, I doubt they've done it for any other reason.

i guess its just weighing up the pros and cons. Most teams see more cons with a front pull rod system though. I wonder how Ferrari will get on