German Car Zone

A first taste of what the '09 spec cars will look like, from Barcelona testing 17th to 20th November.





May look ugly as hell, but as long as its fast, I don't care.

Apprantly BMW and Ferrari are also running KERS as indicated by the pitcrew wearing large rubber gloves. Unsure about the other teams.

Oh, and although this is the first day of the first test of the build up for the '09 season, it looks like BMW is in a good position (I hope) as they and Ferrari are the only ones doing long runs, with BMW in the 1min 21s, and ferrari's in 1min 26s

The proportions are definitely messed up. All the effort of increasing overtakings using new aero kits, is cancelled out by the number of street circuits added to the calendar.

BMW is clearly ahead of everyone in their 2009 preparations.

Wth is that?

A 2009 Spec hybrid car.

This looks very stupid.... the aero technology looks like something from year 2000, or even earlier. but seriously it looks really dumb, the front wing, looks like some street cleaner or lawn mower

..............or they are out early simply because they are the team that need most improvements for the 2009 season.

From Canada and forward they stood no chance against Mclaren and Ferrari and coming to the end of the season they were outpaced by Torro Rosso and Renault as well as having Toyota chasing behind.

Yeah, right. C'mon, most improvements? Kubica's 3/4 place and clear 3rd place in CC won't agree with you. And i also don't agree...

With clear 3rd place i think they concentrated much earlier for upcoming season than RB, Renault and Toyota.

A solid 3 place finish was well expected but with Alonso at Renault BMW has quite a bit threat. Further more they don't want to be third, they are looking into advancing up the ranks battling against Ferrari and Mclaren, which is a goal they are quite far away from at the moment. On the track Kubica wasn't anywhere near Hamilton or Massa in performance.

As there's going to me major changes we might see quite a shuffle as slicks might benefit aggressive drivers who recently graduated from GP2. Teams who have a long history in F1 will be at an advantage since they've constructed cars with ground effects in the past.

Because they gave up on their 08 season and focus on 09 right after their Canadian GP victory. I think BMW was 2nd team to launch their 08 cars this year, behind Toyota. And look at how those 2 teams performed through out the season. The reason they might appear to be ahead of everyone is that they might need more track time to varify their design.