2022 F1 launch and testing topic

[Big Kev]

Aston Martin will be first out of the blocks with the new 2022 car

Feb 4th - Haas
Feb 9th - Red Bull
Feb 10th - Aston Martin
Feb 11th - McLaren
Feb 14th - Alpha Tauri
Feb 15th - Williams
Feb 17th - Ferrari
Feb 18th - Mercedes
Feb 21st - Alpine
Feb 27th - Alfa Romeo


Preseason testing

First test -- Barcelona, Spain -- Feb. 23-25
Second test -- Sakhir, Bahrain -- March 10-12

First Race

Bahrain - March 18th-20th

[durbster]

I've read that it's very unlikely that somebody will have found a loophole to introduce some clever new thing that'll allow them to dominate the first year of the new rules.

So who's going to be the team that proves that wrong?

I'll take a punt on Ferrari or Aston Martin.

[w00dsy]

Stroll world champion.

[pixelboy]

Oh please no..

[durbster]

Hmm, I dunno why I said Aston Martin because I actually meant Alpine but I'll stick with it. Who knows

The hype-machine is warming up already:

[Big Kev]

Ferrari Feb 17th.
First post updated

[Big Kev]

Feb 18th - Mercedes

[r8response]

The four-time constructors’ championship-winning operation will launch the RB18 on February 9, a day prior to Aston Martin.

[Big Kev]

Haas have gazumped everyone by announcing they're showing theirs tomorrow (4th)!

I suspect this year we'll just get a ton of CGI pics to save money and to not give anything away with the new rules until the first test gets going.

Just Williams left to announce a date (first post updated)

[Big Kev]

[Big Kev]

I'm guessing that's just a livery render of the '22 spec demo car they all had access to because it has no DRS mechanism on it.

It was all a bit low key really. One post on twitter with 4 pics in it. Woo!

[w00dsy]

There's a few subtle differences but I'm assuming the real car will look different again.

[w00dsy]

[Big Kev]

Williams 15th Feb.
That's everyone now.

[Big Kev]

[Scottie]

Meh, a livery reveal. At least HAAS was a early iteration of their actual design!
It'll be out of the marketing budget for all the teams, so none of them will be the actual cars.

Bring on Bahrain!

[Duke]

I'm shocked at how different & unique the RBR livery is this year.

The days of exciting car reveals is gone & there's no real point to these livery reveals. Like Scottie mentions the teams would be better leaving the car reveals for the first day of new season testing. meh!

[nutty]

Gives Oracle a cycle in the news.. guess its kinda worth it for that only

[Big Kev]

[Scottie]

Ok, so this one does look cool...

I did notice the amount of car that the drivers need to clamber over to get into the cockpit! The outboard mirrors are back...

Can see there's still some scope to use parts of the floor in managing the airflow as the bargeboards did, like elongating the outer intake fence. Integrate that with whatever is going on with the T-tray and that could help create some securing vortices down the floor?

The front wing is almost creating downwash with the first pane. I'm interested to see how that works out, perhaps if someone is making this concept work with a high rake, that could be pretty huge.

[KNAPPO]

That looks hot as fuck!!!

Good to finally see a car that looks like its a legit design. Lots of interesting bits n pieces to analyse.

[norbs]

[Duke]

Now that is a livery reveal, looks friggin awesome.

So have they lightened the green (hops so) or is it just the high intensity lights?

[Big Kev]

mmmmm not the best livery I've ever seen....

[Big Kev]

Why do all the teams have the bottom part of the car always in black?