Cars of 2019

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Alfa Romeo (in temporary livery):







Interesting to see them leaving a gap between the front-wing flaps and the endplates.  Assume this is an attempt to regain some of the outwashing effect lost with these 2019 wings.


From: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/14/alfa-romeos-f1-car-for-2019-spied-testing-at-fiorano/

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The Alfa frontwing is intense. Extremely different to anything else. Also notice the tip of the nose, like nothing we've seen yet. They are either throwing out decoys or they are on to something.

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I'd say this is the first proper 2019 front wing (and maybe also nose) that we've seen, all the rest looking a tad too simplistic to be the finished articles.  Fascinating to see how much overlap there will be between Alfa and Ferrari designs....

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... Not a lot judging by the initial Ferrari renders:



Mind you, I'm going to assume the car that turns up in Barcelona on Monday (or certainly the one used in Melbourne) will be wearing several new pieces of clothing (bodywork).

More pictures: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/15/first-pictures-of-new-ferrari-sf90-leaked/

[Chrill]

The Ferrari shares a bit with Haas (see the double exhausts stacked at the rear for example), but Sauber at least for now seems to develop their own philosophy. Surely aided by hints from Ferrari though.

[Chrill]

We have a Sauber. This really is a Sauber. It's virtually the same livery. It maintains the Sauber chassis numbers too, this is the C38.

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A Sauber with an Alfa Romeo badge stuck on it.

Few more pics from Barcelona unveiling:





Seems they're running a reasonable rake on the car... not that I can remember how last year's was angled.


As always, I'm nicking these pictures this site: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/18/first-pictures-alfa-romeo-presents-its-first-f1-car-for-34-years/

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Hey, it's the shiny new Renault:






From: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/18/renaults-new-f1-car-for-2019-makes-first-appearance/

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Haas VF-19:






Others: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/18/first-pictures-haas-vf-19-presented-in-spain/

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Racing Point:




Red Bull:




McLaren:




Toro Rosso:

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How about some side-on shots:








Just need a few more to complete the collection.

[Chrill]

The Mercedes is clearly in front of the Ferrari, just look at the photo.

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... but then Mercedes was running the softer tyre.

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Craig Scarborough's analysis of Ferrari's new car - fairly lengthy but an interesting read if you enjoy the engineering side of F1: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/19/ferrari-sf90-technical-analysis/

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That Scarborough chap (as in Craig Scarborough and not just some random bloke from the town of Scarborough) did one of his analysis pieces on McLaren: https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/25/mclaren-mcl34-technical-analysis/

He's also done articles on Merc. & Red Bull, but the McLaren one is probably the best read as it explains what went so disastrously wrong with the design of their 2018 car.