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Which is expected, but I was still eager to see it. The new cars are quickly growing on me. The ground-effect 2.0 era has begun!

The other teams will now reveal in rapid-fire fashion over the next week or so.

Aston Martin looks good:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/a...rmula-1-car-with-updated-livery/8049484/

What a beautiful racing car.

Stunning lines. I love the sweeping lines through this car, and the aggressively undercut sidepods. British Racing Green. I don't know if the AMR22 will be fast, but it sure looks good.

Agree, looks really great, the oversized front wing sides don't look as ugly as on other cars.

I have much doubt on the cuts on the overside though, aesthetically they look great, but that's pretty draggy in this place I'd say.

Maybe if that's a system that closes at full speed, and only sucks air at lower speed ?

You mean these? Draggy perhaps, yes, but their job is to suck air, and for that they have to be stuck out in it. Seems odd that's they are so square though. What's also interesting to me are the cooling gills cut in to the upper surface of the sidepod. That's cool, pun rather intended.

The opening weeks of the season will be so interesting, with the disparate designs. Over time the cars will become more and more alike, but the first few races will be fun with so many different designs of varying effectiveness.

McLaren have revealed, and it's the second real car we've seen after Aston Martin (Haas was a render and Red Bull just painted a show car)





I like the lighter blue, shades of last year's one-off Gulf livery. The design is significantly different from the Aston Martin, and is an example of the divergent designs we'll see at the start of the season. One particularly interesting design decision is the suspension. The MCL36 uses a push-rod front and pull-rod rear, which is the opposite of recent trends, and the first time McLaren have gone this route since 2013, the final year of the V-8 era.

It seems certain this was done to optimize air flow to the Venturi tunnel inlets.

Alpha Tauri

Sprints have been tweaked

"The points system has been tweaked, with the top eight drivers scoring points; previously it was just the top three finishers who received points. It’s now more lucrative: the driver who finishes P1 will receive eight points, down to one point for the driver in P8.

It has also been decided that the driver who sets the fastest time in qualifying – which on Sprint weekends will take place on Friday – will be attributed ‘pole position’. Last year, it was the driver who won the Sprint who earned that accolade.

Qualifying will continue to determine the grid for Saturday’s F1 Sprint, with the result of the Sprint forming the line-up for the start of Sunday’s Grand Prix."

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...nts-on-offer.4UXmrMDm6We04ZFlW0Ieo9.html

This is good I think, and should make the Sprints more competitive and important.

In other regulations news.... the fallout from Spa

"No points will be awarded unless a minimum of two laps have been completed by the leader without a Safety Car or Virtual Safety Car intervention.

Should the leader have completed more than two laps but less than 25% of the scheduled race distance, the top-five finishers will be awarded points as follows:

1st – 6 points
2nd – 4 points
3rd – 3 points
4th – 2 points
5th – 1 point

If the leader has completed 25% but less than 50% of the scheduled race distance, points will be awarded to the top-nine as follows:

1st – 13 points
2nd – 10 points
3rd – 8 points
4th – 6 points
5th – 5 points
6th – 4 points
7th – 3 points
8th – 2 points
9th – 1 point

Should the leader complete 50% but less than 75% of the scheduled race distance, points will be awarded to the top-10 as follows:

1st – 19 points
2nd – 14 points
3rd – 12 points
4th – 9 points
5th – 8 points
6th – 6 points
7th – 5 points
8th – 3 points
9th – 2 points
10th – 1 point

Any percentage of race distance completed above that threshold will see full points awarded to the top 10."

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...g-points-for.10aFBCNICC0dajLVnOAzia.html

Alfa Romeo hits the track in camouflage livery. Valtteri Bottas at the wheel. Alfa are not having a dedicated reveal event. Just getting on with the job.

The Williams breaks cover. Striking new colour scheme.

Interesting. That WIlliams has like, no side pods? Is it missing bodywork? It looks especially slippery, but where are the radiators?

Here's another shot of the Williams. Maybe it's an illusion, or my old age, but this doesn't look like the image Red posted.

Your image is a render from the launch event. The first pic I posted shows the side pods - they look quite different to other teams designs. They seem to be hidden behind the front wheel in the on track shot. The side pods do seem to slope steeply downwards or steeply inwards.

I'd like to see the design from top-down. It must have a drastic 'coke bottle' taper.

That Alfa is not pleasing to me

Not in that livery!

This article says that the radiators are packed at the front of the sidepods, which then just dissolve as you move to the rear. Obviously my take was based on an illusion, where what sidepods exist are blocked by the left front tire in that shot.

This is all quite exciting, to see the different interpretations of the new regs. I'm loving it

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...-fw44-design.5u6wJFgUpltHBHl479PX0d.html

Here's the top-down

Thanks for the link to that article DB. Very interesting. I think the top down shot you've posted is the render again, not the actual car.

The practice sessions and first few races are going to be interesting. Whose design choices have made the cut and who ends up with a lot of work to do!

Yes, maybe so, I cannot tell honestly. But I assume that it is what the body shape will look like, even if there are other alterations in the actual car. I like it!

Ferrari have revealed





I like it. The black makes it somehow more aggressive, more sinister or something. Very sharp looking Fez. They have also cut cooling louvers in to the top of the sidepod

Michael Masi is out as race director

She looks good indeed.

Love all of them so far, bar Haas and the hopefully "one shot" Alfa.

Also, Masi out is a good start, now hoping for track limits enforcement and the proverbial "all the time you have to leave the space" (with spaniard accent).