Worlds ugliest racecars?

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Downhill Dino
It's awesome but it's still an ugly one.


Haven't seen the first one though. It's like if Picasso made a race car or something.
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Probably some DIY racecar, can't find it's name anywhere. :p
 
Ferrari F310

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A really odd looking machine. They did improve the nose over the course of the season but the whole thing is just odd. Especially those sidepods and air intakes.

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K4GP throws up some, err, interesting stuff still.

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hsv
K4GP throws up some, err, interesting stuff still.

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That's a beautiful little machine, and no that isn't my Kei-car bias talking.

Ok maybe it is
 
Ah, Charcoal. Based on an F1600 with a full carbon fibre body. Often called a cockroach. :lol:
 
Because without it the nose would be illegal?
 
You can see about 1/5 of it. And it just looks like a bog standard Raid car.

Posting one thread-worthy picture is much better than spamming the thread with random pictures and half-hearted attempts at Top Gear style anecdotes.
 
'Tis a converted March F2 car.
 
If it wasn't for the prongs being different sizes to each other, I reckon it would've looke pretty good
 
LumpiestFish
If it wasn't for the prongs being different sizes to each other, I reckon it would've looke pretty good
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But then it wouldn't be legal.
 
1987 March 871

Not a fan of the semi-exposed engine bay. Weird ridges along the sidepod. The overhead airbox was a mid-season addition and makes the car look so bad.

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Liquid
1987 March 871

Not a fan of the semi-exposed engine bay. Weird ridges along the sidepod. The overhead airbox was a mid-season addition and makes the car look so bad.

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I think it was an F3000 car dressed up to F1 specs; it was funny-looking, though. The 3.0L teams tried various innovations like that (airboxes weren't common then), including semi-uncovered engine bays. Ah, when cars really looked quite different than each other.

I think the following years' 881 and CG891 was one of the more lovely designs on the grid.
 
SergioTurbo
... Someone tried to build a miniature Mclaren M8D?
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...No, Don Nichols formed Shadow (then AVS) in 1968, and entered the Mk1 in Can Am in 1970 - the same year the M8D was first introduced. The first design went public a whole year beforehand. The reason it's tiny is because they experimented with reduced frontal areas, which worked in a straight line (190mph at Mosport), but made cooling a nightmare. Fast enough cars, but they baked themselves.
 
hsv
...No, Don Nichols formed Shadow (then AVS) in 1968, and entered the Mk1 in Can Am in 1970 - the same year the M8D was first introduced. The first design went public a whole year beforehand. The reason it's tiny is because they experimented with reduced frontal areas, which worked in a straight line (190mph at Mosport), but made cooling a nightmare. Fast enough cars, but they baked themselves.
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The Mk1 Shadows also suffered from a severe weight distribution-related problems due to having to switch to a conventional, heavy big-block Chevy V8 when both cars were supposedly built around Toyota's Twin-Turbo 5 liter V8. Plus, they were built around pop-up air brakes that were banned shortly before the season started... They were quite wild little cars, but I always liked them.
 
BMW M1C...ew...(only clear large photo...annnnnnddddd there's a marshall's head in the way. xD )
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Liquid
Ferrari F310

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A really odd looking machine. They did improve the nose over the course of the season but the whole thing is just odd. Especially those sidepods and air intakes.

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I'm more taken aback by what looks to be the world's largest Headrest. Its damn near half the cockpit.
 
Another look at the oddly proportioned McLaren MP4/10.

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Am I the only one who thinks these new lmp3 cars looks hideous?
 
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