2011 Car Launches & Pictures

[Petrenko]

It always cost a lot of money, it's just the first time it's ever happened that Williams don't do an official launch event, plus I imagine this annoys sponsors big time, the launch is a big day for sponsors to have eyes all focused on their brand on the new car, imo it's just a huge mistake because of the message it sends, it gives the impression the team is broke and can't afford the most basic publicity, they're apparently just planning on issuing a few cheap photographs of the new car to the media, maybe Patrick Head went out and bought a new £50 disposable digital camera from Amazon.com in order to save them even more money. This is just a horrendous gaff by Williams, especially since they are the only team not doing an official launch event, seems it's within the budget even of Hispania. If we're suddenly 2 seconds a lap quicker as a result of all this, I'll take it all back.

[cformula1]

Team Lotus (1Malaysia) will launch their car online on their official website at 5am GMT on Monday morning.

[phil1993]

First launch tomorrow at 10am local time. "New livery" apparently

I think on Tuesday (local time)
07.30 - Red Bull launch
08.00 - Williams & STR launch
08.20 - Mercedes launch
09.00 - Testing begins

[SilentKiller]

I think its live in this site

http://www.ferrarif150.com/

Ldm: I am confident we are going to win both the championship this year.

[phil1993]

According to insiders, the MP4-26 is very different

[F1Fan88]

According to insiders, the MP4-26 is very different

"Drastic" was the word scarbs was told about. Here it is in context "No the mp4-26 is pretty different, its quite drastic and should give you a lot to write about".

[iceman1]

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[Omegablue]

As a Ferrari follower I'm left to ask what's innovative? And why is it so... plain...
Meh... Guess the tradition of making a Ferrari good looking or striking is gone...

[Denorth]

on a first glance it doesn't look that different, right? (watching it on-line)

[grafic]

In my opinion its exactly the same car but whitin the shark wing in the back and the nosecone, that i think its a little bit higher.

[Omegablue]

It appears like that. But it's actually a whole lot higher up. Has a horrible top intake, and on the rear of it there's an opening slit?
Alas, this isn't a Ferrari of previous exciting designs. Dammit, it's so plain...

[iceman1]

Credits - MasterM

[Denorth]

they also said that the driver will be sitting higher (due to new higher nose to improve the airflow under the car). I don't think that it should affect the centre of the gravity much though - KERS will probably compensate it.