Mercedes Benz World visit (lots of pics)
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Great pics, love the cockpit shot of Mika's old McLaren 
Also, I don't know which car this is but it sure as hell isn't the W01.
Also, I don't know which car this is but it sure as hell isn't the W01.
Thanks a lot! That's really interesting, I just took it at face value that it is the w01.. i'll have to take a closer look next time i'm there! I do see that the top of the air intake is a completely different shape actually...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...g/800px-Schumacher_Bahrain_2010_(cropped).jpg
very very observant Spunkey!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...g/800px-Schumacher_Bahrain_2010_(cropped).jpg
very very observant Spunkey!
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Soldato
TBH it was the slab of a sidepod which I noticed - it looks almost like a late 90s car 
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I've been to the MTC a few times (my dad knows a couple of people who work there, and so we occasionally get allowed to have a tour), and I can definitely say it is very impressive and awe-inspiring to see F1 cars of old (well, McLaren's F1 cars of old 
). Sometimes you can get a brief glimpse of a current car, but it's usually in pieces or partially covered up. Their trophy cabinet is also pretty awesome -- it's pretty much a massive corridor with trophies going along both sides of the wall. Oh, and the building itself is something else.
Sadly they prohibit photography while there (understandable), so it's a shame I can't show you guys what hardly anyone else gets to see.
). Sometimes you can get a brief glimpse of a current car, but it's usually in pieces or partially covered up. Their trophy cabinet is also pretty awesome -- it's pretty much a massive corridor with trophies going along both sides of the wall. Oh, and the building itself is something else.Sadly they prohibit photography while there (understandable), so it's a shame I can't show you guys what hardly anyone else gets to see.
Great pics, love the cockpit shot of Mika's old McLaren
Also, I don't know which car this is but it sure as hell isn't the W01.
probably an old honda
Soldato
Nice pictures, particularly like the 'exploded' car ones
It certainly isn't a Mercedes and it's not even a Honda.
It's the 2001 BAR-003 with a new-ish front and rear wing and the flipups removed.
The exploded car is an old BAR-005 though. IIRC it was the one at the F1 design exhibition a few years ago in the Design Museum in London. I do love the bodge they've done to it though. Change it to a V8 engine, Ok fine, but leave the V10 exhausts?
*EDIT - errr.... the original version of this was at the design museum, but was a Renault... Oops. Same chap though*Sadly, that McLaren isn't even the MP4-22 - it's a Raikkonen/Montoya era MP4-20
I'm going to go away and stop being such a geek.
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