2010 F1 Cars photos (2009 cars added now too)

Row Man Gross-Gene · Post by **Row Man Gross-Gene** » 21 Sep 2010, 21:17

I ran across something that I had worked on a long time ago and had tossed aside. It's nothing new, but I had wanted to put a properly scaled image of each car in an animation so that I could compare. In then end I only got 8 of the cars in because it was a lot of work and it's hard when all the images are a little different (different lenses, angles etc.). Anyway I've attached the image below. Far from perfect, but there it is.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 21 Sep 2010, 21:25

The McLaren easily looks the fastest. The Lotus looks like a lawnmower.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 22 Sep 2010, 07:53

The Merc is last year's Brawn, isn't it? Looks awful in those colours. 'm struck by how short is the McLaren's nose, compared to the Ferrari.

Post by **mario** » 22 Sep 2010, 09:34

CarlosFerreira wrote:The Merc is last year's Brawn, isn't it? Looks awful in those colours. 'm struck by how short is the McLaren's nose, compared to the Ferrari.

Quite a few teams have taken elements from their 2009 cars onto the 2010 car - for example, the Ferrari F10 and F60, and arguably so did the RB5 and RB6.

What is more striking is, if possible, you can see shots from above - in those, you can see that the Mercedes looks very "front heavy" as it were, with the rear of the car very tightly packaged. When you see that, you can see why Brawn has suggested that the aero and weight balance is too far forwards.

Ed24 · Post by **Ed24** » 22 Sep 2010, 09:58

CarlosFerreira wrote:The Merc is last year's Brawn, isn't it? Looks awful in those colours. 'm struck by how short is the McLaren's nose, compared to the Ferrari.

Yes, I think its definitely the 2010 livery on the 2009 car.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 22 Sep 2010, 12:30

I was interested to see how Virgin, with innovative design ideas, are in the same areas, roughly, as the other teams.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 22 Sep 2010, 17:19

eagleash wrote:I was interested to see how Virgin, with innovative design ideas, are in the same areas, roughly, as the other teams.

I have no proof of this, but I reckon current F1 regulations promote performance from details, details, details. That compromises poorer teams: details are investments with diminishing marginal returns. So, you need to shake the regs every now and then.

Again, all of what I just wrote may be nothing but serious bollocks.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 22 Sep 2010, 18:26

CarlosFerreira wrote:
eagleash wrote:I was interested to see how Virgin, with innovative design ideas, are in the same areas, roughly, as the other teams.

I have no proof of this, but I reckon current F1 regulations promote performance from details, details, details. That compromises poorer teams: details are investments with diminishing marginal returns. So, you need to shake the regs every now and then.

Again, all of what I just wrote may be nothing but serious bollocks.

Agreed!

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 22 Sep 2010, 22:25

Row Man Gross-Gene wrote:I ran across something that I had worked on a long time ago and had tossed aside. It's nothing new, but I had wanted to put a properly scaled image of each car in an animation so that I could compare. In then end I only got 8 of the cars in because it was a lot of work and it's hard when all the images are a little different (different lenses, angles etc.). Anyway I've attached the image below. Far from perfect, but there it is.

Think it deserves some HWNSNBM points for posting this in the first place.

Viresh · Post by **Viresh** » 24 Sep 2010, 13:38

The images are awesome.really it took me on a different world of racing.

Row Man Gross-Gene · Post by **Row Man Gross-Gene** » 24 Sep 2010, 13:52

Thanks Eagleash, I'll take all the points I can get. I can readily admit to being an extreme geek for doing something like this. But when one is a geek, this kind of stuff is half the fun!

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 24 Sep 2010, 17:58

Interesting to see how the McLaren is the longest of all the cars, and others like the Lotus and Force India are quite short in comparison.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 24 Sep 2010, 22:10

The Mercedes actually looks like the Brawn BGP 001.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 25 Sep 2010, 06:50

Phoenix wrote:The Mercedes actually looks like the Brawn BGP 001.

you've obviously been reading this thread...

Ed24 wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:The Merc is last year's Brawn, isn't it? Looks awful in those colours. 'm struck by how short is the McLaren's nose, compared to the Ferrari.

Yes, I think its definitely the 2010 livery on the 2009 car.

well the thread is kind of long after all, allmost one whole page

Row Man Gross-Gene · Post by **Row Man Gross-Gene** » 29 Sep 2010, 12:52

2009 cars as well:

johnmustang · Post by **johnmustang** » 07 Oct 2010, 16:01

Those 2010 F1 cars have its own unique design, especially the McLaren MP4-25. He gets much better every race season.

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