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Honda F1 introduces elephant ears

03 May 2007

On the final day of testing Honda introduced a radical wing on the nose of the RA107. Honda's test driver Christian Klien is out in the car today at Circuit de Catalunya today to test the new 'elephant ears'. Whether or not the Honda Formula 1 team will use the new wings during the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix is uncertain at the moment. It is interesting to see though the team saved their new wing to test it on the fourth and final day of testing

Another good reason to cut aero as much as possible, they make the cars look damn ugly. Was looking at pictures of the 88 Mclaren (MP4??) and it is simple and elegant and beautiful.

The 88 McLaren was the MP4/4. Actually all of Ron Dennis' McLaren are part of what he called project 4 - needless to say the first three didn't work nearly so well. The car itself was designed to a fair degree by Gordon Murray & a number of others who's names don't immediately come to mind. I think John Barnard had either gone or was in the process of going to Ferrari.

Anyway with two hacks by the names of Senna & Prost the thing won 15 of 16 races that year.

For my money, however the prettiest McLaren of all (M6A aside) was the MP4/13 which in pre-season testing wore the traditional McLaren orange along with the West sponsorship logos.

yeah I saw the BMW F1 nordshlieffe laps on TV. looked awesome, but damn, 8min 34 seconds??? did he park on the back straight and have a quick smoke?

I read something on F1 live that BMW 'dummied' the car a little bit. Harder compound tyres, increased ride height and brought the motor's max revs down, apparently it could still do 300km/ph, but cornering and high speed balance/grip was lowers so it wouldn't be so 'dangerous'.

No offence, but I wouldn't mind seeing Monaco off the season list.... Keep Silverstone!

Bring back the twin German GP's!

Oh yeah, Singapore has been confirmed for 08 as well!

If anything, I hope one day we'll see Zandvoot again, great racerack!

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