Oddest F1 car contest

[JiMbO]

I dont think the 09 cars look odd just dull i always looked forward to the newest updates on cars but theyve even taken that away from me!!!

[crbassassin]

[alexbarwell]

Is a car still classed as 'odd' if it wipes the floor with the regular competition? Cooper and Lotus made for a rude awakening for established teams at the time. Was the windmill car a brabham? Always liked the quirky 6-wheeled car, must have been a bit of a sod for pitstops though. How about JPS lotus with the downforce skirts. Some of the 70s cars where they look like the cockpit was an afterthought just stuck infront of the engine - never sure if there was room for the drivers legs...

[xpensive]

Not exactly Patrick Head's finest hour.

http://8w.forix.com/sixwheelers/jp-fos95.jpg

[timbo]

Not exactly Patrick Head's finest hour.

http://8w.forix.com/sixwheelers/jp-fos95.jpg

Well, it scred FIA enough so that they banned it)))

[Roland Ehnström]

[ESPImperium]

That Tyrell from the mid 90s that has the mid wins in above the sidepods beside the driver or the mid wing McLaren-Mercedies that weighed a ton and handled like a brick get my votes.

Altho id say there could be some contenders for this catogory next year, some definate howlers coming next year.

[modbaraban]

Win! That rear axle must be taken off a lorry that took the car to a track!

Cost cutting! Max, watch and learn!

[Chaparral]

Hey Mod doesnt the car have to have competed in a race that 312 6 wheeler never raced - how about Johnny Parsons Kurtis Offy that ran in the 1950 Indy 500 - it was part of the world championship

[ackzsel]

Cosworth Formula One car:



Never raced, though.

[Saribro]

Are you sure that's not the batmobile?

[xpensive]

I wonder what the good Keith Duckworth was thinking with this one, love the aluminium bodywork though.

[timbo]

Aint' it 4WD?

[DaveKillens]

Andy Granatelli, in 1967, wheeled out the STP-Paxton turbine car to a dumbstruck media. The revolutionary race car, designed specifically for America’s most prestigious motor race - the Indianapolis 500 - featured a 550bhp Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engine mated to a Ferguson Formula four-wheel drive system coupled to a reduction gear system.

[timbo]

Andy Granatelli, in 1967, wheeled out the STP-Paxton turbine car to a dumbstruck media. The revolutionary race car, designed specifically for America’s most prestigious motor race - the Indianapolis 500 - featured a 550bhp Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engine mated to a Ferguson Formula four-wheel drive system coupled to a reduction gear system.

You're late))))