What F1 car is this?
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- 21st March 2012, 3:22 at 3:22 am #131143damonsmedleyParticipant
@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!
21st March 2012, 6:27 at 6:27 am #196793duncanmonzaParticipantThe 2 seater is a Minardi, this is painted the same so maybe it is too?
It doesn’t look very real though.21st March 2012, 7:11 at 7:11 am #196794Adam TateParticipantJordan 198?
21st March 2012, 7:20 at 7:20 am #196795Adam TateParticipantArrows A22 or so?
21st March 2012, 8:40 at 8:40 am #196796DavidSParticipantIt’s probably a fake…most of those promo cars are.
21st March 2012, 12:38 at 12:38 pm #196797MeanderParticipantI don’t think it’s fake. It seems so famiiliar!
21st March 2012, 13:40 at 1:40 pm #196798AsanatorParticipantI reckon it is a 1999 BAR Honda – the dual livery horribleness!
21st March 2012, 14:11 at 2:11 pm #196799glueParticipantIt is the BAR 001, looking at the nose shape and the overhead air intake.
21st March 2012, 14:53 at 2:53 pm #196800MeanderParticipantVery 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!
21st March 2012, 21:06 at 9:06 pm #196801Andy2286ParticipantThat’s very impressive guys… I feel humbled
21st March 2012, 23:23 at 11:23 pm #196802neforParticipantI 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.
22nd March 2012, 1:03 at 1:03 am #196803glueParticipantIt 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/5356and 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/5467There 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.
22nd March 2012, 4:46 at 4:46 am #196804bearforce1ParticipantIt looks like a kit car. Or a feeder class car to the feeder classes designed by some bloke in Byron.
22nd March 2012, 8:06 at 8:06 am #196805PaulMParticipantLooks precisely like the BAR001. Found this picture where the BAR seems to look exactly the same.
http://www.autoviva.com/bar_001_supertech/version/2514222nd March 2012, 9:28 at 9:28 am #196806damonsmedleyParticipantWell, I think you guys got it!
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