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[Amanda]

Brabham BT46

[Gaz]

okay, so its not the best looking car fine - but on a technical level its amazing.

[chemax]

Man, these are crazy! I never knew there was such varied car design.

Keep 'em coming!!!

[texasmr2]

Brabham BT46.

That car is awesome imo.

[Amanda]

okay, so its not the best looking car fine - but on a technical level its amazing.

Aesthetically, it's a flop in my opinion.

Brabham BT46.

That car is awesome imo.

I hate the back half.

In fact I seem to have issues with a lot of cars from the 70's, I find them all a bit unsightly.

Surtees TS16



Fairly disgusting colour scheme, again with the yellow and blue combo

[JamesD89]

Brabham BT46

The red one's okay, the one below it's a bit of a rust bucket though.

[7UpJordan]

Brabham BT46

The red one's okay, the one below it's a bit of a rust bucket though.

They're both the same... well except the top one is Lauda's and the other was John Watson's.

[Gaz]

okay, so its not the best looking car fine - but on a technical level its amazing.

Aesthetically, it's a flop in my opinion.

Brabham BT46.

That car is awesome imo.

I hate the back half.

In fact I seem to have issues with a lot of cars from the 70's, I find them all a bit unsightly.

Yeh the back isn't great, front isn't much better but what it could do was amazing.

that fan on the back which was for "cooling" created a vacuum literary duckling the car to the road .

During the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix there was an oil spill on the track, other cars were spinning off all over the show yet the BT46 just drove over the oil and won.

But Politics intervened and it was banned for the next race.

But it still shows the technical genius that Gordon Murry was.



Fantastic Idea

[JamesD89]

Brabham BT46

The red one's okay, the one below it's a bit of a rust bucket though.

They're both the same... well except the top one is Lauda's and the other was John Watson's.

Ah. Well I like the camera used for the top photo. The one used for the bottom is clearly old hat.

[hypertek]

The Tyrrells in the 90s


They must have been Star Wars fans lmao

the ugliest mclaren ever?


the early 80s cars with no front wing look pretty ugly

weird how some of the cars had no front wings, while their teammates have the car with the front wing, how much did that affect the handling?


Ligier JS21

You know what, as ugly as some of these cars are, id like to drive one, well any F1 car jsut to see how it feels lol

[Jabberwocky]

not quite as bad but still amazing on a tech level

Tyrell P34

[martracer]

I apologise for being pedantic, but the photo of the Vanwall in this post is not a real one, its a road going "re-creation"...

[SENNA71]

the ugliest mclaren ever?

damn I was going ot post that

oh well here goes anyway



and what about this? bet you never knew about it (I hadn't)



google translation:

Ugly
The friend and also a journalist Rodrigo Favoretto raised an interesting rabbit through a response to the latest posts: McLaren have gone on a test at Monza, back in the 90s with a front nozzle high style Tyrrell.

The answer is yes. The engineers at McLaren, then led by Neil Oatley, did a study of the complicated aerodynamic chassis MP4 / 5 and have tested such high bill at the Italian track, so far the fastest in Formula 1, Ayrton Senna at the wheel.

But he'd better not have done it. Because the photo, you realize that the bill was aesthetically horrible and it was a solution that did not work. So much so that McLaren just use the tip high in 1995, the ill-fated model MP4/10, the first of the season with Mercedes-Benz.

from
http://sacovaziodegatos.blogspot.com/20 ... chive.html

[7UpJordan]

I thought the 1996 MP4/11 was worse looking than the 1995 MP4/10... those cockpit sides look like something taken from a bath tub!

[EwanM]

I have to disagree about the Brabham fan car, however this is a thread about looks over anything else, so I suppose it does count.