Facts Only wrote:It's an impossible task to make the cars 'look better' because looks are subjective. Making them faster is a simple case of comparative measurement but who is going to be the person to say that something looks better? Just look at the most beautiful car thread for evidence of this.
It's also ridiculous to think that rules can make the cars 'look better' every era has had its beauties and it's dogs and in every era people would have disagreed on which were the beauties and which were the dogs.
Although I have noticed one trend, you could easily replace the word 'better' with 'older' everyone just wants the cars to look like the first F1 cars they fell in love with.
My only real thought on the matter is that F1 should just look 'more' than other race cars to the layman viewer. Currently they are a little indistinguishable from GP2 and FR3.5 and the same could be said of the mid-late 90's cars compared to CART, the Champ Cars just looked like 'more' of a racing car and it was the closest a rival got to F1.
For instance:
F1:
http://historyf1.narod.ru/photos/f-061.jpg
Champ Car:
http://www.fanmercedesbenz.com/wp-conte ... 22x274.jpg
I chose those two so that livery would not be a defining factor. The Penske (I think) to a laymen looks faster, more powerful, more exciting, certainly my girlfriend just confirmed this.
I'm not saying F1 should copy anything from those Champ Cars, just that it should not look less than other racing series.
agreed with the penske. I always loved that car a lot, looks mighty.
aesthetically better looking is a no-go in reality though, because in truth, aesthetics don't equal performance, which is why F1 cars look like they do, and why GP2 cars look like they do, and why Formula E cars look like they do. That's the entire thing.
However, a big part here is due to regulations. Change rear tires a couple of sizes and it changes the entire aero philoshopy of the entire vehicle. Change it to 18" rims and it also changes a lot, like the suspension control arms, etc.
aesthetically, this looks jaw-dropping aweosme:
in reality, it's not aerodynamically sound, which is why we'll never see them like this.
same goes for this:
looks awesome [ even though in a matchbox kinda way ], but it's just not realistic.
meanwhile, this is not an F1 car, but looks stunning, and presumably is aerodynamically sound
if you ask me, visually, these were the coolest F1 cars ever
i also get that time advances and thus technology. Which is why i don't really have a problem with F1, except for
artificial stuff, like DRS, but also a mess of regulations which needs additional rules to artificially make the original
error more visually pleasing [iron board noses or phallic nosecones].
