HRT F112 launched

Danthus · 6 Mar 2012 at 08:29

Will it be able to keep up with the Safety Car?

Nismo · 6 Mar 2012 at 09:15

Premium beige F.T.W.

Did nobody think that seeing as there is a lack of sponsorship, it might be a good idea to put the rear wing sponsor on the outside rather than hidden away inside?

Or is it just where a mechanic puked?

Indy500 · 6 Mar 2012 at 11:26

What happened to PDLR's sponsorship? I know Repsol and at least one other firm are his personal backers.

Zuban · 6 Mar 2012 at 12:32

some differences are more obvious here, looks like the nose is new, and the front suspension mounting is different. Dunno would this mean its a new tub or a modification of the previous one, certainly despite being similar in many ways ot the previous it does look like its a new car. front wing is last years without the winglets, probably just fitted on so they can run the car.

englishpremier · 6 Mar 2012 at 13:43

It does look very different to previous years to me. Still very basic though.

You only need to see the front wing to know that its not a quick car.

Though the lack of downforce might mean its quick in a straight line. lol

Gaijin · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:33

Urgh. If I was making a chuff car, i'd at least make it look good on the grid.

Duke · 6 Mar 2012 at 15:37

Many parts still look the same as the previous year - the front nose is the same design but just dipped to meet the regs. The rear looks maybe a litter tighter packaged but not that much.

TaKeN · 6 Mar 2012 at 15:39

I can't get over why the front of the tub looks so high? It looks like the view down the nose is very restricted....

howler · 6 Mar 2012 at 15:54

Nismo said:
Premium beige F.T.W.

Did nobody think that seeing as there is a lack of sponsorship, it might be a good idea to put the rear wing sponsor on the outside rather than hidden away inside?

Or is it just where a mechanic puked?

Sponsorship is often priced based on the location of the car, the outside of the wing will be a lot more costly than the inside

alexthecheese · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:10

Interesting to see that they've lost the little swirly deflectors on the front wing in favour of 3 flat ones.

Memphis · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:17

alexthecheese said:
Interesting to see that they've lost the little swirly deflectors on the front wing in favour of 3 flat ones.

The race spec front wing won't look like that.

Kevin Clark · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:24

howler said:
Sponsorship is often priced based on the location of the car, the outside of the wing will be a lot more costly than the inside

That holds true for bigger teams but you'd think HRT/Marussia would at least give those companies that are throwing money away a little bit of credit with a more prominent ad. It's not like they're short of room. You can still price them based on space.

Duke · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:27

Memphis said:
The race spec front wing won't look like that.

You reckon?

Zuban · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:27

Duke said:
Many parts still look the same as the previous year - the front nose is the same design but just dipped to meet the regs. The rear looks maybe a litter tighter packaged but not that much.

nose only looks similar because the camera mounts are on the tip like before its otherwise very different, the tip is higher and the area under the nose is now completely different, previous nose was very rounded underneath and came down to meet the lower wishbone mounting which was more or less in the centreline of the car, as thats all changed now to a front suspension more inline with what everyone else is doing the whole nose and aero concept in that area is different. I would imagine the cosworth engine must dictate a lot of what go's on at the rear but they have changed to pullrod this time round.

Dup · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:36

Well, it's got 4 wheels.

I can't see them having twiddled their thumbs over winter so there must be more to these things than meets the eye. doesn't mean it'll be as quick as the other teams but here's hoping they're not too far off the pace from the start.

howler · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:36

Kevin Clark said:
That holds true for bigger teams but you'd think HRT/Marussia would at least give those companies that are throwing money away a little bit of credit with a more prominent ad. It's not like they're short of room. You can still price them based on space.

That's not how it works sadly, they need to try and sell that bit of real estate

Not that they will, I'm staggered anyone backs them but it won't do them many favours giving away premium space on the car for free

Kevin Clark · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:39

Exactly though, they never will sell it, so why not use what you have. It's not like anyone is going to come along with $50m and want the sidepod when you could just stick all 4 of your sponsors on there nice and big instead of the tiddly little line you can't read anyway at the bottom of the car. And if they did you could put clauses in to move them in such an event.