Formula One - 2016 Season

[wev]

Werent Haryanto's wins from a reversed grid too? Hell Petrov managed to keep Alonso behind him whilst the latter was tring to win the drivers championshiup...

[Dudley]

All 3 were sprint race wins, and in Austria and the UK he did indeed get 2nd and 1st place starts from finishing 7th and 8th in Feature races.

 

Bahrain he somehow managed to win the sprint race from 7th, having finished 2nd in the Feature. I can only assume without going back to the race that it was batshit crazy.

 

His chances of 2nd in the championship were mostly ruined by somehow managing to not score a point at either Spa or Monza.

[kiroquai]

New Williams - very much an evolution.

 

[JPR]

 

 

 

New Ferrari, livery looks a mess, not a fan.

 

[mexos]

Hey Ferrari, employ a graphic designer. WTF.

 

Shockingly bad work on that livery. How can they stand beside it and not be embarrassed?!

 

 

[mexos]

14 minutes ago, JPR said:

 

 

 

 

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

 

[JPR]

That second pic really does show what a mess it is, you even miss that they appear to have stuck batman under the camera.

 

The mess in hi-res:

 

 

 

[layten]

McLaren have got Richard Mille as a sponsor, that's somewhat of an upgrade over Tag Heur... http://www.richardmille.com/star/mclaren-honda/

[kiroquai]

Er... yeah, interesting Ferrari livery. New Mercedes has done some filming laps - looks like another evolution but features a fat-ass airbox.

[wev]

The Ferrari needs a giant Puma stripe on its sidepods rather than the Shell logo as it looks like a massive trainer. Also I see the gone with the Proboscis Monkey look this year

 

Oh and the placement of the toolbox in the first picture makes it look like its sporting a giant double wing

[SeanR]

Guys...

 

 

[kiroquai]

New McLaren, featuring some pretty aggressive nostrils! (Expect the Ferrari to sport some at some point soon, from what I gather).

[JPR]

New Mercedes:

 

 

[Dudley]

Still no sponsors on the McLaren.

 

BlackBerry missing from the Mercedes in the least shocking shock ever.

[mexos]

The Merc really does look classy, it has some nice graphical touches. However I am a bit bored of the livery, no matter how nicely it is executed. Just as silver Macca's looked good I got bored of them.

 

Red Bull are winning the livery race this year. They should (I know of course they could not though!) have some ruling about liveries having to change fundamentally every 3 years. Just to freshen it up. For me.

 

 

[mexos]

Also, has anyone else noticed how wildly the quality of the teams pictures of their own cars vary? Only Williams look like they have tried. The Merc photography looks like it was shot on an iPhone 3g!

[kiroquai]

EDIT: linked to subscription-only image so it didn't show - JPR saved the day

[SMD]

The Williams looks the best so far, can't wait to see if they've improved it in the corners. The Haas looks stunning for a first effort, makes Manor and Caterham look rather amateur.

[kiroquai]

I've got a feeling that they are going to be quite competitive (well, Grosjean in particular, not convinced about Gutierrez at all) - they have this year's Ferrari engine and transmissions from Williams. Can certainly imagine them challenging the midfield at least.

[SMD]

You'd hope so, a new team being competitive straight away would be great encouragement for others.

[kiroquai]

The side view of the McLaren is interesting - look how much rake that thing is running!

 

[JPR]

Haas:

 

 

Black, Red and Silver how original and boring.

 

Kiroquai I don't know if it's just me but I don't see the images in your posts, just a string of letters and numbers, view image takes me to the Autosport subscription page.

[kiroquai]

Ah rubbish - thought that might happen as I am a subscriber. Hang on, will go back and make amends!

[mexos]

Looks like a proper car. But another lacklustre livery. And another car with fuck all sponsors.

 

Sauber have also released an image of this years livery - just the same as the guff from last year.

 

Ackh, who cares. It's almost testing time!!!! Wooooohoooo!

[kiroquai]

Yeah!

 

I best dust off the old RLLMUK F1 Championship News typewriter and repurpose it for real F1 for this thread!

[wev]

Who else misses the 90s?

[SMD]

Frank Williams

[Dudley]

"Haas" is pretty much what that car looks like.

 

Also, you'd think they might want a sponsor somewhere.

[Sidewaysbob]

I think we'll be seeing a lot more local sponsorship deal this year. rather than multiple title sponsors. 

 

And that Hass just looks like last years Ferrari to me

[MrPogo]

Appears to be mainly made of duct tape.