Ferrari F14T

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xDama
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My god, those sidepods are small! Compare it with the Mclaren!

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siskue2005
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Just a crude photoshop done very hastily (forgive me if it is not good) , but this would have been better
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Redragon
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siskue2005 wrote:Just a crude photoshop done very hastily (forgive me if it is not good) , but this would have been better
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/43/8pm1.jpg
The photoshop on the photoshoped image, I don't think Alo, Dom and Rai are on scale. I like your photoshop by the way, nicer to the eye

Avocado
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xDama wrote:My god, those sidepods are small! Compare it with the Mclaren!
Not really. That is a reflection.

emmepi27
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Just a comparision between
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Incredible packaging on the sidepods, There's very little undercut because they don't even need it!

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Cuky wrote:Maybe I am a bit subjective as I am a Ferrari fan, but I like it. It is strange, yes, but that doesn't make it ugly. Over the past few years they always tried to copy others in their designs (rear pull-rod, coanda exhaust, high flat nose,...) so I am happy that hey finally came up with something on their own. Last time one team did that (RB) they went on to win 4 straight titles with just a few refinements each year. And last time Ferrari went on with new different things they won 6 Constructors and 5 drivers titles in a row

I find your post peculiar. Specifically that you wouldn't call it ugly.

I believe that car has a decent claim to win, if not definitely come in the top 3 of a real poll of most ugliest F1 cars in the history of Grand Prix racing.

That's top 3 of ugliest -ever-.

Honestly, if you don't find that car ugly, is there anything that you would consider ugly at all?
F1 car width now 2.0m (same as 1993-1997). Lets go crazy and bring the 2.2m cars back (<1992).

mclaren_mircea
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Why that type of the nose? It will mean less air udner the car?

Avocado
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emmepi27 wrote:Just a comparision between
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Be1Wp4YCcAAteFv.jpg
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Owen.C93
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Hopefully a more accurate comparison.

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Tech detail video shows monkey-seat wing mounted on the rear crash structure.

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ecapox
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What's interesting in that compare picture is the amount of free space under the suspension of the Ferrari. If they truly intend to have the airflow go over and off the sides of that nose, then once the air leaves the nose it has nothing in its way. Very open design.

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ecapox wrote:What's interesting in that compare picture is the amount of free space under the suspension of the Ferrari. If they truly intend to have the airflow go over and off the sides of that nose, then once the air leaves the nose it has nothing in its way. Very open design.
Yep, check this comparison of the volume under the chassis. Ferrari's is much larger.

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Here's a gif comparison that's too annoying to embed.

http://i.imgur.com/HHJuIzM.gif
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f1rules
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SectorOne wrote:Rather interesting cokebottle and a bar of some sorts.
How the hell is air going at 250km/h supposed to stay attached around that corner?
(i know the car is the moving object but it´s the same thing)

http://i.imgur.com/11Md5HJ.jpg

im no aerodynamicist, but i agree, wasn't that pointed out as beeing a problem already last year when their car was covered in flowvis, it showed that, at that spot the flow didnt stay attached ?,
but im sure they know what they are doing

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The Inlet is much smaller than the Macca/Williams, not so sure about the sidepod being smaller...

Those 2 certainly have more of an undercut.