Hoffman900 wrote: ↑09 Feb 2022, 20:43
Stu wrote: ↑09 Feb 2022, 20:36
Just_a_fan wrote: ↑09 Feb 2022, 20:25
He he, I remember when F1 cars actually did have steel suspension arms with CF covers.
Steel suspension arms is not that long ago really. Williams FW15 had it in 1994. It was one of them that punctured Senna’s crash helmet. Also recall the pit crew trying to unbend the track-rod on Hill’s car after Schuey had nerfed him in Adelaide.
28 years is a long time ago! Compare 1966 and 1994 to see the same time difference.
I think people are most upset at RB calling this the RB18 and doubling down on social media, as opposed to calling it what it is, a livery / sponsor reveal.
My guess is Liberty won’t like this and will force teams to unveil real cars after this year. They’re probably looking at NASCAR and all the press they got with their NextGen cars and drooling.
Liberty can’t force the teams to present anything, forget about “real cars”, they can’t even force them to have a launch for “a car”.
While NASCAR got a lot of press when their next gen cars were launched, F1 is having a couple of weeks of non-stop press with how the car launches are scheduled… I agree that is a shame that it wasn’t called a “Livery Launch” or “Livery Reveal” which is what we actually got, but it did for RBR exactly what it needed to do, make a lot of noise.
In following years we will get closer to finish product reveals since there will be stability in the regulations and the launches will be of evolutions of this year’s cars.