Official F1/Motorsport thread

[Paulos G]

Ron Dennis stepping down before new season starts.

[Richard.John]

Well, the new Renault is hideous. Quite posiibly the ugliest car for a long time. Did a ten year old, who loves Lego, design the nose and front wing?




The new Williams looks nice, if they keep the paint job.

[Alastair]

Agreed on the ugliness of the Renault. The Williams wont be black though unfortunately. What's the point of 'launching' a car in test livery?

[Richard.John]

They do the same every year, don't they? I understand that it's too plain for TV, thus sponsors, but we can dream.

[VR46]

That Renault does look ropey, had high hopes for them designing one of the nicer looking car 'en all. Still, if it does the job on the track we can let them off.

[Rossco]

Those two high shots of the McLaren really should how much crap they have got rid of from the cars!

[Roddie]

I can't wait to see how all these cars perform, too bad we still have a good while to wait

[Shez]

Not to keen on the renault front end, and it's square nose, but the side pods and engine covers are pretty cool.

All the cars look a lot less cluttered this season - They look like scalextric cars

[Bort]

The Renault failed two crash test a few weeks ago and I think one of them was the nose test. Hopefully it's just a basic design so they can test the car.

[Alastair]

Check this out. An instant addition to my "places I must go before I die" list.







Circuito Potrero de los Funes - Argentina

[VR46]

That does look amazing, probably not the best circuit to spectate at mind.

[Roddie]

Is it to be a new F1 circuit?

[Alastair]

Doubt it as there's next to no run off (especially not the acres of tarmac they seem to like) nor was it designed by Tilke which is a prerequisite these days!

[Richard.John]

And plus, it's in Argentina. We all know that any new additions must be from government backed super circuits, that are able to pay Eccelstone his millions. Did anyone read that Montreal vs Bernie correspondence? He fleeces the circuit owners from what I can remember.

[Darwock]

I never did see that Bernie vs Canada letter, I had a look for it last time you mentioned it. Was it ever posted on this thread? Got any links?