2006 – The Cars

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It's too ... busy. Looks like Honda just attached a bunch of aerodynamic aids all over the car and hoped for the best, so we now have a 300km/h jumble sale.
 
The Honda car is pretty lame in my opinion. Doesn't look too special.


I love the Midland paint though, very nice.
 
Let me restate for the record. McLaren-Mercedes is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO screwed! They will be lucky to finish in the top half of the championship.....


Let's cheer for the Kimi/Rossi combo in a REAL car in 2007!
 
LOL! It's an inverted BMW. I think the announcers are going to have fun with these two teams.

What's up with all the concave (meshed) parts on the tips of the noses? What purpose to they serve? Doesn't it create drag? Or, rather, is it ventilation for the driver's hoo-ha's?
 
It may have something to do with pressure equalization. The pressure on the outside of the nose section is greatly different than the pressure inside, so they might add a little hole to equalize it. Any other thoughts?
 
That is a nice car. I’m thinking they’ll be in much better shape than last year – although I’m not sure how engine development will progress… at least they’ll have a stronger platform in 2007.

On Mercedes: Link.
F1Racing.net
Kimi Raikkonen says that McLaren has problems with Mercedes' new V8 engine and there is a lot of work for the car manufacturer to do before the start of the 2006 season. Raikkonen was only twelfth fastest in the team's 2006 car when he returned to the cockpit on Thursday.

"I wasn't expecting anything before I came, and I knew we have issues with certain things, but we're going to get there and there will be some improvement," Raikkonen told Autosport.

"The biggest part of the problem is the engine, but things are happening and in the coming weeks we'll improve it," he added. "They (Mercedes) are not where they should be and need to improve. On the engine side we've got a lot of work to do."
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Oh boy…
 
The Williams color scheme is the color scheme BMW should have used for their car. It does a much better job of showing BMWs colors than BMW does of showing their own colors. The Williams is a very good looking car.
 
That williams looks kick ass. I love the colors like that.


I doubt kimi said that quote that blake posted. Its just not like him...


It uses punctuation. ;)
 
I think the FW28 will be much more competitive than last years car (maybe even the 2004 car?). But I don’t think they’ll have the pace (and development) to be a consistant threat.

That said, I think they will have one of the strongest engine packages at the start of the season, and I think that they could be threatening in the early rounds…
 
I pretty much agree. Though I could see the Cosworth being one of the best engines the entire year. But I don't really know if either of Williams drivers has what it takes to consistently threatening for top spots and/or wins. I know a lot of people speak highly of Mark Webber, but it has been that way every year for the past three years and nothing out of him at all really.
 
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I pretty much agree. Though I could see the Cosworth being one of the best engines the entire year. But I don't really know if either of Williams drivers has what it takes to consistently threatening for top spots and/or wins. I know a lot of people speak highly of Mark Webber, but it has been that way every year for the past three years and nothing out of him at all really.
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Yeah, if he does not thrash Nico, and put in consistantly good drives, his reputation will be damaged, probably, beyond repair.

Last year was really bad for him, and he really needs to step up this year if he wants to be a serious challenger for the best seats. However, Williams are accepting partial fault for not giving him the car he expected when he joined. Link.
F1Racing.net
Mark Webber had a difficult season last year. He joined Williams expecting to be able to go for podium positions and maybe even his very first race win. The Williams team praised Webber's qualities and will do the best they can to give the Australian a better car in 2006.

"He'd come to a team where he'd expected to have the opportunity to win and he was struggling as hard as he could and not even able to see the lowest points position," said Patrick Head.

"He certainly was quite disillusioned with his season at that time but we sat down here and had a good chat with him and he had a few things out with us."

Team founder Frank Williams praised Webber's speed. "His qualifying laps in the car we had last year were truly remarkable," said Williams. "He's a very quick and skilful driver. We need to give him better equipment than last year."
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could somebody explain what zero keel suspension is ?
and about the Williams vs BMW colors the Williams has no red in them and thus not showing the true BMW colors
 
Why should Williams have red? They aren't with BMW anymore. Then again, they never did have red colour, even with BMW.

Anyway, i have some more hi-res photos for you guys.













Thanks to Imageshack for the outstanding free image hosting service.
 
I love how the McLaren guy has a fire extinguisher in his hand. Viva la grenade!
 

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