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What F1 car is this?

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  • #131143
    damonsmedley
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    @iamsa8 and I went to the Australian Grand Prix on the weekend, and we came across an old F1 car painted in a promotional livery for the event. Being fanatics, we couldn’t help but wonder what it originally was. So here’s a fun game for everyone — guess the car!

    #196793
    duncanmonza
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    The 2 seater is a Minardi, this is painted the same so maybe it is too?
    It doesn’t look very real though.

    #196794
    Adam Tate
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    Jordan 198?

    #196795
    Adam Tate
    Participant

    Arrows A22 or so?

    #196796
    DavidS
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    It’s probably a fake…most of those promo cars are.

    #196797
    Meander
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    I don’t think it’s fake. It seems so famiiliar!

    #196798
    Asanator
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    I reckon it is a 1999 BAR Honda – the dual livery horribleness!

    #196799
    glue
    Participant

    It is the BAR 001, looking at the nose shape and the overhead air intake.

    #196800
    Meander
    Participant

    Very well spotted! I was searching in the right years, but wrong teams.

    On a side note, how BAR thought they would be winning races with this thing beats me – it’s such a simple car!

    #196801
    Andy2286
    Participant

    That’s very impressive guys… I feel humbled

    #196802
    nefor
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    I thought it was a Minardi as per Duncanmonza’s suggestion. The car on this page looks very similar: http://www.minardif1x2.com/

    Infact if you Google “Minardi Swisse F1 two seater” you get a number of articles about it.

    #196803
    glue
    Participant

    It is quite primitive, even compared to 1999 standards. Most of the other teams had gone for sculpted noses (with the EJ10 being an extreme example http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5522), angled/curved front wing mounts (http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5422), more aggressive and less boxy side-pod entries such as these two beauties, the Stewart SF2 and the Prost AP01
    http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5356

    and the AP02 was a looker as well, with the stubbed, gilled corner of the sidepod http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5432
    along with the Arrows A20 with its rear outlet ‘humps’ in the sidepods http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/5467

    There was such variety in car design back then, but it also struck the right balance between having distinguishable cars through significant shapes (sidepods, front wing, headrest etc) and not a masively unbalanced field of cars (relative to the 70s innovations, for instance). These 2012 stepped-nosed vaccum cleaners are depressing sometimes.

    #196804
    bearforce1
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    It looks like a kit car. Or a feeder class car to the feeder classes designed by some bloke in Byron.

    #196805
    PaulM
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    Looks precisely like the BAR001. Found this picture where the BAR seems to look exactly the same.
    http://www.autoviva.com/bar_001_supertech/version/25142

    #196806
    damonsmedley
    Participant

    Well, I think you guys got it!

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