Which car looks like a winner?

Wing_Z

Wing_Z

Charter Member 2011
Less than a month out from the first F1 race of 2010, all the cars are more or less in final shape.
I think they are particularly ugly this year: shovelnoses, and that lame fin on the back of some of them.
All a product of the rules...
So what's your idea of what an open-wheeler race car should look like?
My pick is the Lotus 78 in JPS colours

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To help you decide, here's a poster containing over 500 F1 cars from 1950.
 
That would be my choice too....I remember drooling over that as a kid growing up and even had a die-cast one to play with.
 
I hate all modern F-1 cars, from 1973 on, they have changed so very little, they have no character, I don't care how fast they are. Give me any front-engines GP car before the 58 Cooper, the GP cars had individuality then, no advertising, and national colors. I'm an old foggy, I like nothing I see in F-1 these days save the racing. The cars are Tom Petty butt-ugly!
 
Pre-WW2 my ultimate Grand Prix car for 'Charisma' is the revised W154 Mercedes Benz from 1939.
My favourite Grand Prix car from the 1950s remains the Maserati 250F throughout its various models.
And what other Formula One car could exhibit more style and elegance than the 1962-1966 Lotus 25 and 33?
Very hard to pick anything from the 1970 era that compares to the Ferrari 312B and 312B2, a real Ferrari.
As for the rest, I can only say the John Barnard designed Ferrari 412T from 1994 in the original form deserves the 'elegance' accolade ......... post 1995 and the last Ferrari Formula 1 car aesthetics went to Hell in a hand basket.

As for 'a winner' for 2010, Adrian Newey might have pulled it off for RBR.
:mixedsmi:
 
Gotta agree Wing_Z. They were the best looking of any to follow.

I've got a Tamiya 1:12 scale of that very same car tucked away. I believe I bought that one back in 1972 for roughly $25.00US. Look here and see what they're getting for them now...... http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/sc_tam.htm Prices are shocking to say the least.

I've also got the Tyrrell P34 Six Wheeler in 1:12 scale.
 
GT: if you'd invested your $25 at a lousy 5% you'd have $160 today!
Today's prices are a bargain :d

Wombat: Have to agree on the Maser.
In fact the one thing that stands out in my mind is how the drivers have become less of the picture as safety rules became more stringent.
Those guys drove in full view, elbows outside the car, and no seat belts either.

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GT182 said:
Gotta agree Wing_Z. They were the best looking of any to follow.

I've got a Tamiya 1:12 scale of that very same car tucked away. I believe I bought that one back in 1972 for roughly $25.00US. Look here and see what they're getting for them now...... http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/sc_tam.htm Prices are shocking to say the least.

I've also got the Tyrrell P34 Six Wheeler in 1:12 scale.
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Gary .......that's a Lotus 78, the 1977 season car ................. :173go1:
The only Tamiya 1:12th F1 models that have not been re-issued are the Matra V12 and the Ferrari 641.
I remember vividly seeing idiots paying around A$1000.00 for the 'Senna' McLaren MP4-6 at the AGP in 1995 ... it was inevitably re-issued around 2000 for the standard retail price of A$200.00 or thereabouts!
BTW, the Tyrrell P34 is the single most popular F1 car ever issued by Tamiya.

Wing_Z, the "Maserati 250F" driven by Brundle is the one and only "Tec Mec" built independently and about the only part that deserves the Maserati tag is the drive-train.
Typical Donnington Museum self delusion.
But the ones in the 1956 French GP clip are the real deal.......:applause:
 
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