Lotus E20 Renault

[Byronrhys]

Mmm... no revolution here. The intakes don't look extra small to me (outer shell is missing), undercut is good, maybe they try this Toro Rosso idea, maybe it just looks like it because half the parts are not in place yet.

Lets wait till we see the whole car first.

[Maggot]

this actually just caught my eye this morning in my hangover state...

can anything be made form this?

[bhall]

this actually just caught my eye this morning in my hangover state...

can anything be made form this?

Only this: a Bloody Mary is an excellent cure for a hangover.

[Maggot]

this actually just caught my eye this morning in my hangover state...

can anything be made form this?

Only this: a Bloody Mary is an excellent cure for a hangover.

ooooh no... i think just to stay drunk.. I have a wedding to go to at 4pm.. should be fun

but seriously ? that curv/dent/ there... anything?

[bhall]

Umm, it looks a lot like last year's car. But, even that's grasping at straws, because it's just promotional CGI.

[Gridlock]

Let's address all this PR analysis in one easy thought experiment:

F1 Team X's marketing department needs a sexy shape for their comms that day. Do they

A) Send down to the CAD or Aero team for the latest CFD and CNC/rapid prototyping meshes so they can bung them into photoshop, cover them with fancy grids and fake sheets, remove anything too incriminating, and ship it

Or

B) Throw together something in-house using a generic F1 shaped thing

[avatar]

Let's address all this PR analysis in one easy thought experiment:

F1 Team X's marketing department needs a sexy shape for their comms that day. Do they

A) Send down to the CAD or Aero team for the latest CFD and CNC/rapid prototyping meshes so they can bung them into photoshop, cover them with fancy grids and fake sheets, remove anything too incriminating, and ship it

Or

B) Throw together something in-house using a generic F1 shaped thing

I'd lean towards b); because:
1) there seems to be a child-sized driver in the render.
2) the front of the cockpit looks obscenely high to me - with the driver as rendered, I doubt they'd see any thing but sky!

unless they have done something a bit dramatic around the cockpit...

[avatar]

a small vertical fin (not sure it is the correct term) at the beginning of the cockpit.


vertical fin is not something which is behind the car cause we you see it on the other pics too if you look carefully.

ummmm....
"small vertical fin at the beginning of the cockpit"
"you can see it in the other pics too"
....I think the "correct term" might be Kimi Raikonnen, standing up in the car...

[jordangp]

a small vertical fin (not sure it is the correct term) at the beginning of the cockpit.

vertical fin is not something which is behind the car cause we you see it on the other pics too if you look carefully.

ummmm....
"small vertical fin at the beginning of the cockpit"
"you can see it in the other pics too"
....I think the "correct term" might be Kimi Raikonnen, standing up in the car...

Very good

[Lurk]

Ok I didn't expect this one

I was talking about the fin (still not sure of the term) you can also see on pictures with Grosjean

[bhall]

In various guises, those fins are on all cars and have been for some time. They split airflow around the driver's helmet.

[Byronrhys]

The red Circles are just Mirror mounting points, just like on the R31.

[cata]

Would R30 nose be legal under the current regulations?

[ESPImperium]

Simple answer, no, id recon its arround 70 to 100mm too high. However thats just a guestimation.

[Blackout]

Compared to last year's car...


They can easily adopt STR's ''double floor'' solution and I hope they'll do