01-12-2009, 07:05 AM
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2009 F1 car unveilings
Ferrari F60
http://f60.ferrariworld.com/
Ferrari have become the first team to unveil their 2009 car, ahead of the first run of their F60 at Mugello in Italy on Monday.
The car has been named as a way of celebrating the fact that Ferrari are the only team to have competed in each of the 60 years of the Formula One world championship.
Due to the radical change in F1 regulations this year, the look of the new car is dominated by the wide front wing and narrow rear wing - with the central part of the F60 featuring a highly-sculpted 'coke bottle' rear-end from behind the sidepods.
The new car features Ferrari's Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), which has been developed in conjunction with electronics supplier Magneti Marelli. It is mounted on the engine - although the team has not yet confirmed whether the device will be used for the first race.
"As you can see the car is not an evolution of last year's car," said technical director Aldo Costa.
"It's a completely new car, starting from a white piece of paper. Fundamentally the biggest changes come from the new rules from an aerodynamic point of view and the introduction of new technology, which is the KERS system.
"Because of that we had to start work pretty early and to review the main concept of the car, so it was a very very intense and long job."
The F60 features longditudinally-mounted carbon fibre-cased gearbox and has a new Brembo designed braking system.
Felipe Massa is scheduled to test the car for the first time later today at Mugello, with initial shakedowns having been switched from Fiorano because of freezing temperatures at Ferrari's test track.
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01-12-2009, 08:52 AM
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looks like a snowplow
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01-12-2009, 09:20 AM
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i like the way a f1 car looks, must be a first time since 90's
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01-12-2009, 11:13 AM
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I like it, i wonder if it will be as oversteery as it looks, aerodynamics are such a complex thing. I'd be mighty interested in knowing what it looks like underneath.
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01-12-2009, 03:19 PM
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I think it looks like a formula 3000 or something, it looks smaler than before, but the slick tires look awesome . At first when I saw the title on F1.com I tought it's a new supercar, like the sucessor of Enzo, strange name for an f1 car anyway.
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01-12-2009, 06:20 PM
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Nice to see the slick tires back in F1.
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01-12-2009, 07:18 PM
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It appears so compact.. and better than I expected! I hope that the new aero rules produce the intended good overtaking, despite the somewhat radical changes that have to be made to the bodywork. In theory they should.
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01-12-2009, 07:58 PM
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The first pic makes it looks like it got squished.
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01-12-2009, 10:37 PM
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It looks kinda old, still a lot better that what I had in mind, yet it doesn't look bad, just old...
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01-16-2009, 10:17 AM
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apart from the front wing being further than nose, i like this honda too
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01-16-2009, 01:22 PM
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the radiator inlets on the mclaren are so much smaller than the toyota and ferrari also very round the overhead shots are very cool thanks for all of them
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01-19-2009, 12:40 PM
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i don't like renault or williams as much as others, but they're allright
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01-19-2009, 07:49 PM
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Apparently Williams refers to their colours as "interim winter livery" suggesting a change will be coming.
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