As if they Could Look More Ugly
Scott pointed out in the comments earlier this morning, that frequent F1 video uploader yossidlr has come up with the goods once more and provided some fantastic shots from this weeks Barcelona test.
Sadly, YouTube has pulled its favourite party trick and squished video out of proportion, making some bad looking cars, look a little bit worse. Thankfully, all is not lost though, as if by magic an anamorphic version has appeared (to plagiarise a line from Mr Benn).
Ahh, that looks… oh, it doesn’t really help does it?
November 20th, 2008 at 11:02Scott in Italy said:
who’s funny idea was it to make my practice italian this morning? he said “somewhat dangerous”…i think i’ll need to relisten to what he’s talking about but his body language wasn’t really suggesting it was too serious. he was also talking about contracts for next year. I’ll try to give a better translation if i get a chance later.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:04daniel said:
ive found a video from german rtl showing the cars and explaining KERS, with not-so-quick nick showing the steering wheel and the kers-button.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQdlq3_6i4
even for non-german speaking persons it quite straight forward. interesting is that nich has to say, that when he pushes the button he gets just over 80 extra horsepowers for up to 6 seconds.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:27me said:
nice find!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:28me said:
loving that knight rider connection
November 20th, 2008 at 11:34Scott in Italy said:
I know a bit of german, but I think I might just turn the sound off on that one so I don’t get distracted.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:49daniel said:
and this should be the first video of seb loeb in barcelona (unless that loeb in the video in this post?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0CPerrz9cs
but its from finnish television, so even harder got understand.. but i hear barcelona and sato in there..
November 20th, 2008 at 11:57Steven Roy said:
Canadian pilot has mental breakdown. I wonder if this is a Canadian pilot we know?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081120/twl-pilot-mental-breakdown-mid-flight-3fd0ae9.html
November 20th, 2008 at 11:58Steven Roy said:
I have been moderated again. Infamy, infamy they’ve all got it infamy.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:45Dr.J said:
It’s ugly - but then it is the BMW, and they have had the ugliest car out there for the last couple of years (IMHO), so I might hold judgment until I see some of the others. That rear wing is awfully high and narrow though …
November 20th, 2008 at 16:13Jordan Allen () said:
Nah. Do not have a Commerial Rating. Do not have the “bread” for one. Ticks me off as you need one a Commerial rating to fly the historial aircraft that this airport: http://www.warplane.com
The Commerial Pilots say I had my “Mental Breakdown” a long time ago when I became an Glider/Single-engined Instructor for the Air Cadets…. Do not why, but the students always seem very interested in killing themselves and their instructors.
AS an Air Force Reserve Pilot, I get some nice flights from 1/2 way between Toronto and Montreal to very strange places that might be famaliar to you Steven: Prestwick, Leuchars, Kinloss, Lossiemouth and Buchan for refueling and on to Kandahar….
November 20th, 2008 at 16:44R.G (What need is there for fish to sing, when I can roar and bellow?) said:
ahem.
They are not ugly, the are NICE.
November 20th, 2008 at 16:46me said:
my mistake.
November 20th, 2008 at 16:47Steven Roy said:
Never been to Kandahar. Prestwick is my local airport though. Buchan I have never heard of but the other three normally have RAF in fron of their names.
So do you see yourself as a Spitfire pilot or do you prefer the Starfighter.
There is a guy on GP Wizard you would have a lot in common with. He restores war planes in Ohio. http://www.historicalaircraftsquadron.com/index.html
November 20th, 2008 at 16:58sam said:
it’s really ugly (although i disagree with you about the recent year bit) i thought the F1.08 was one of the prettiest cars ever (but that’s my opinion too)
i’m surprised that they didn’t use Walrus nose (FW26)- nose hole combo i thought that would be quick (or is it banned?)
i don’t think it’s youtube….the car IS that ugly lol
November 20th, 2008 at 17:01Steven Roy said:
I don’t think it is banned but i have a vague memory of reading somewhere that the crash test limit has been increased since that car raced and it would be difficult to pass the test with a walrus nose. One of the reasons no-one copied Ferrari’s holy nose last season was the difficulty in passing the crash test with a chunk of nose structure missing.
November 20th, 2008 at 18:11Jordan Allen () said:
Yeah, well, why land a Hercules with a full payload at the local flying club’s grass field when you can use the Military Bases of friendly nations?
Good question. I actually have 3 hours flight time on the CF-104D (Starfighter Two-seat)in my logbook, countersigned by my uncle would was the commanding officer of 1 Canadian Air group at the time, under the “2nd pilot or passenger column) So you can called myself a real “Widowmaker” jock.
On the other hand, my nickname for the mermaid girlfriend is “Spitty”, short for Spitfire (From the definition of “Spitfire”) so I am sure I have logged a few thousand
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hours with that type, if you catch my saying….
I think I would feel safer in a Spit. The Widowmakers had the glide characters of a 300 pound dumbbell, if anything went wrong with the single engine it was designed around.
November 20th, 2008 at 18:18Steven Roy said:
Was the Starfighter the plane that originally had the ejector seat that sent down rather than up?
November 20th, 2008 at 18:27Jordan Allen () said:
November 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pmSteven Roy said:
Was the Starfighter the plane that originally had the ejector seat that sent down rather than up?
And the non-aviation buffs can now conclude why the pilots called it the “Widowmaker”.
That was the case for the F-104 and F-104A models. Think that by the time the C model joined NORAD the ejector seats where shooting upwards. By the time the “G” was NATO standard issue the seat had to be shooting upwards or there would not be a living ex-Starfighter pilot in NATO…..
November 20th, 2008 at 18:36Steven Roy said:
I remember being told about this plane by a colleague who had been in the RAF. The idea was that if the ejector seat dropped there would be less load on the ejectee but several pilots were planted in potato fields and the like because they went down when they expected to go up. After the change was made there were some pilots who regularly switched between old and new versions and some of them were planted in potato fields head first.
November 20th, 2008 at 18:56me said:
i shouldn’t laugh
November 20th, 2008 at 19:20Dan Brunell said:
RE the BMW: I’ve never remember a Formula One car looking this ugly.
November 20th, 2008 at 19:35Steven Roy said:
You should have a look on drop.io
November 20th, 2008 at 21:31Rich said:
A little while ago I tried to defend the 09 rear wings but BMW Sauber have really done an admirable job of making it as ugly as sin. The other cars were not quite so bad, but still not pretty. Jenson seemed quite happy so there is hope of closing gap between the teams. I also disagree that all BMW Sauber F1s are ugly as I also thought the F1.08 was one of the prettier cars.
November 20th, 2008 at 21:54Scott Woodwiss (Is 18 XD) said:
Seen this?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72194
Loeb + F1 race seat =
for me!
Wonder if there’s a link this and the Red Bull story?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72197
November 20th, 2008 at 22:04Sara said:
I was going to attempt to say something profound about it all but frankly words almost fail me.
November 20th, 2008 at 22:22RubberGoat (Gavin Brown) said:
As I said in the podpanel on Sunday, I hope he does quit rallying (as he’s achieved everything possible) and try and win Le Mans in a Peugeot 908. Then he’ll be just like Michel Vaillant!
November 20th, 2008 at 22:35me said:
November 20th, 2008 at 22:59Sara said:
I would have said failed me but clearly not quite.
November 20th, 2008 at 23:40Jolly said:
I’ve found another video showing more details of the 2009 cars
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsbMP5bDCA
November 20th, 2008 at 23:42me said:
hahahahaha
November 20th, 2008 at 23:50Jolly said:
November 20th, 2008 at 23:54me said:
quite possibly. that and moveable aero devices.
November 21st, 2008 at 00:54lou said:
eeeeeewwwww! I do not like them.. not one bit.
November 21st, 2008 at 13:28Dirty Scarab said:
As far as I could tell, it’s only BMW and Williams that have shown us their interim cars so far right?
It is ugly as sin, but we don’t even know if this is BMW’s final car anyhow. There’s a radical difference between the nose of the BMW and that of the Williams which is much more 2008-looking. These two design both can’t fit into the regulations can they? I suspect the cars may look a little different to this come the starting grid in Aus.
Christ, can you imagine a Ferrari looking like this?
November 21st, 2008 at 13:33me said:
honda too. and that’s no better.
November 22nd, 2008 at 04:01Kerk said:
Hello everyone, 1st post here…
Those front wings are like bumpers on karts.
November 22nd, 2008 at 14:52me said:
ahh kerk, couldn’t agree more.
unlike karts though, they probably won’t last a lap.