F1 2021 SEASON: NEWS - RUMOURS

It's a difficult livery to get wrong, yet somehow they manage it. You've got to work really hard to do that.

 

It properly looks like the back all got a bit too hot and burny. They've designed a car that looks like it's already caught fire.

 

Menthol?

 

I actually don’t mind the livery, I enjoyed the Tuscan GP livery last year so to see a small element of that was fine by me.

looks to the naked eye like they’ve really slimmed down the rear and I wonder if the engine layout has changed with the work they have gone? Looks a very refined car, but then I suppose it had to be after last years performance.

Will be really interesting to see how they go.

 

The green is horrible, and I hate the way the top left corner of that logo appears to be missing because the shark fin stops short. What a bizarre design decision - just move the logo!

 

To me it just looks dirty. Maybe they're just hiding the burning oil.

 

I thought the burning of oil as fuel was a Merc trick?

 

Enzo will be turning in his Grave !

The green is vile imho .

 

Binotto looks like Mr Bean with a wig and glasses on.

 

Rowen Atkinson has infiltrated the Scuderia!

 

Ahhh I've just realised. Its an Eddie Irvine tribute livery

 

The Mercedes car looks very subversive and adjustable, good luck to whoever drives it, glad its not me, however !! looks like it could help generate another world championship, hopefully.

 

but not a new one.
Sorry @Number 1 Jasper

 

Agree

 

Formula 1 has revealed the layout of the new track which will hold the first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix later this year.
https://www.racefans.net/2021/03/18...et-track-for-saudi-arabian-grand-prix-jeddah/

I'm only posting this as one of the comments on it is excellent.
"Well, I won’t beheading there any time soon…"

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As for the track, average speed of 250kph, going to be a bit of an odd one. Feel sorry for the drivers having to give feedback with 27 corners to memorise. Then again a lot of those corners are just mildly bent straights.

 

Anyone see an overtaking opportunity? T1 looks like the only one to me? Followed by a nice long lap to spread the field. I fear another Yas Marina

 

I think it really depends on how wide it is, from first glance it looks like it could be Monaco mk 2, but if it's 3 or 4 lanes wide, it could be Spa. But. let's face it, the problem with F1 isn't really the tracks, its the technology in the cars. I feel that it will only get worse as time goes on as the computers used to design them improve until they finally all converge on the optimum design and the cars end up exactly the same.

 

But driven by people who aren't the same...yet!!
Whle talking about SA, Germany only stopped beheadings in 1938. A somewhat sobering thought. In fact many European countries still carried beheadings in the last century.

 

Performance convergeance is a good thing though, as we'll hopefully see this year. If they could get there by various dufferent designs it would be nice, but I'm not sure that's ever given us evenly matched cars before.