Launch dates confirmed to date:-

Date Team Location

January 6th Ferrari Fiorano
January 7th McLaren Stuttgart
January 10th Toyota Cologne
January 14th BMW Sauber Munich
January 16th Red Bull Jerez
January 29th Honda Brackley
January 31st Renault Paris

February 19th Super Aguri

[EDIT] - Added new dates in bold

damn it u beat me to it..... this is meant to b my job like last year :P

nice to see honda spending the money on an exotic launch:P

Well i happen to think they've done it Poperly.

Whats the point in Pissng around Flyin/Moving shit all over the place when you can just do it at Home !!!!

Well Done Honda


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no dont get me wrong its great just unexpected,
thought thed go to the home land where there is a massive following but all means thats good
surprised there doing it at the factory

theres 7 teams listed above and 11teams in total so 4 dates need to b added.....

namely... SUPER AGURI, Team Force India, Williams, Toro Roso...

I used to holiday with my Grandma every year in Germany, Stuttgart was last mainline railway stop, and beleive me nothing glamorous there at all ;)

Ferrari F2008

Looks awesome, wonder if the performance will match?? :thumbs_up:

+1

Love it from the top, those intakes look like fiendish claws :D

Fuck Me!!!!!!

Looks like some Robot Creature from the Deep with all those Claws and Talons !!!!!!

Well you certainly can't say they went for the Smooth Slick Approach !!!!! :lol:

And how High is the Front Wing !!!!!

Does look pretty Sweet though.


What were the Major Rule Changes for this Year ???????


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definatly a hybrid of last years car

front wing is quite high up like the sponsor on the front wing who the f**k is alice
car looks quiet aerodynamic wonder if the mclaren will have as much wings on it :joker:

of course its a hybrid Lewis... by the current rules there not ALLOWED to make a complete new car.... part of cost cutting... u can only change a certain % of the car.....

anyway...

bloody hell stoney where you get that from www.mclaren.com/blueprints :joker:

That is a pretty Cool shot of the 2 cars together, so you can Really See the Difference....

And there is Quite a Difference !!!!!


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they were tattooed to Rons Bald head :P

1. Interasse the Reduction of the interasse of 10 cm, with regression of the front axis regarding the single-seater of 2007: it favors ease of handling
2. The flanks Will light turn out rear, of fact reduced in length, introducing the narrowing towards the posterior part much advanced one, in favor of one reduced frontal section
3. The suspension the posterior suspension introduces new points of attachment and different geometry, favoring the motricità in acceleration, penalized from the abolition of the traction control
rough but sounds like reduced drag from the bulkheads going backwards and altering the rear geometry to compensate for no traction control this year?

yes since there's no TC they have to change the rear suspension geometry to get as much traction as they can out of corners....

its very interesting.... Ferrari went with a 10cm longer wheel base for the F2007 won the championship and then shortened the wheelbase by 10cm for the F2008.... i just hope the F2008 is more reliable than the F2007...

Costa: F2008 will change before Melbourne

Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa says the F2008 will be very different when it begins racing in Australia this year.

The Maranello squad unveiled their new challenger in a low-key ceremony, where photographers were banned, but Costa said the car will change significantly before the first race in March.

"We worked hard on aerodynamics," said Costa during the launch.

"From an aerodynamics point of view the car is completely different except for those elements that at this debut are temporarily identical to the old car's.

"But the car will go through an evolution and so it will go to the first race with every aerodynamic surfaces re-done.

"The front and rear wings will be new, while at this debut they are identical to the previous car. The chassis and the sidepods are slimmer. We've worked on every aspect of the car to improve its efficiency.

"We've also worked on solving problems we had on certain circuits, like Monte Carlo, Hungary, Canada. We worked on certain aerodynamics aspects that could help us on those particular circuits."

The car will make its track debut tomorrow at Fiorano, before the team begin its development programme before the Melbourne race on March 16.

Costa said the team have worked hard to adapt the car to the new regulations, which ban the use of driving aids.

"A lot of work has been done on the aspects regarding electronics," he added. "From this year we have a single ECU from MES, which forced us, who were used to Magneti Marelli, to review the electronic layout of the car, and to get used to the lack of driver aids.

"Lots of work was done on the gearbox. As you know it will have to last for four races. The work has been scheduled around that, with lots of testing on the bench and on the track. So the dimensions of the insides of the gearbox have been changed to increase the life of its components.

"There was work done on the suspensions. It's not visible, but it aims to improve the behaviour of the car on the circuits that saw us having some difficulties last year.

"Finally, there are the details on various systems. Every aspect of the car, including its components, was analyzed and developed.

"The car is slightly shorter than last year. Last year we increased the wheelbase quite sizeably, while this year the general length of the car has remained substantially the same except for a small adjustment we've done for certain specific reasons. But nothing major."

so the car will look different before the 1st GP anyway... makes u wonder y teams even bother to launch cars these days......

McLaren reveal there 2008 car after the FIA removed all Ferrari parts from the McLaren car... could b a tough year for Lewis

The New McLaren (THE REAL ONE)

Yep, looks Nice.

Ain that Clever though to be able to say it looks like it'll do the Business....


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looks nice will be hard to say what gonna do the business this year as no tc will make things more interesting..

Ferrari moved quickly to prevent a second spy-gate saga when 4 shady characters seen taking snaps of the new f2008 were ejected from the Launch ceremony in Maranello....

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Quality mate

Toyota have released there piece of crap rubbish F1 car i seriously cant see them getting into the midfield if they keep producing these rubbish copy cat cars that are nowhere near as good as the cars they are copied from...

with all the money Toyota have they have never once pushed the envelope in car design they have never produced anything new or exciting to there cars that made other teams go "wow how did they do that?" and then the other teams go off and copy... every single Toyota F1 car has been very conservative in its design and just copy of every other teams parts from the year before....

Well, there's No Claws, Talons, Wings etc etc, so...

It'll be Shit !!!!!

Oh i don't really know, but as Stoney said, it does look really dull compared to the other 2 so far....


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Aerodynamics!!! Its for the techies!! :joker:

Rev them hard, brake late and nudge the guy coming up on the inside. :joker:

If that fails then cry like a baby after the race and let politics win it for you :joker:

(This is just humour, please don't shoot me!!)

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The amount of money they spend, and the little that goes into the cars, is there a very rich Toyota design cheif in the Carribean somewhere laughing at another 2 years millions coming in ;)

like the wheel trims should of put spinners on it i dont reckon that idea will work much

if designed right they will work...

Ferrari used them a lot last year to great effect

BMW have launched their new car for 2008...











the front suspension looks great..
also im very interested in how square the bottom of the front wing is.... the others are alot more rounded in the "dip"

i reckon thats the best looking car so far been released this year looks nice

I thought that, but was too chicken to say and risk getting shot down!!! LOL!! :joker: :joker: :joker:

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dont care what they look like as long as it isnt such a shit season this year!!!

:thumbs_up: Fair comment dude!!! :thumbs_up:

Last years was pretty crap for lots of different reasons. :jump:

If it don't improve tis year I think public opinion may get very loud!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

problem is
i say i wont watch it everyear
but everyear i end up at silverstone:D
i hate that the sport has become so political its all bullshit