So I’m pretty swamped around here with all of this Detroit motor show business, but I had to find a minute between bites of sandwich to talk briefly about the new Ferrari F60. And to watch this:
Firstly, it’s nice that they’ve come up with a proper name – to mark the Scuderia’s participation in all 60 F1 World Championships since 1950 – rather than just calling it F-whatever-year-it-happens-to-be.
You can see loads more info, and vid etc on Ferrari’s site.
Secondly, it generally looks pretty damn good. Much better than I’d feared. Love the sidepods especially, with the way they tighten in around the back, to give as smooth an airflow as possible. Someone’s already likened them to a Coke bottle. Which is a nice way of describing it.
The pointy nose is a bit odd although a nice change from the more rounded ones of previous years, but the wing mirrors are, erm, interesting.
That rear wing still looks frikkin huge too, especially in the photo of Felipe Massa giving it a quick whip around Mugello for a lap.
Felipe told BBC Sport: “I expected it to be big, but it’s small like a Formula Three car. The new F60 seems tiny, very compact and cute. I feel emotional but I’m also happy to take it out on track for the first time.”
So, how do you feel? Emotional maybe? Suprised? Horrified?
As long as it will be faster, I really don’t care about the looks of it..
it dosent look as nice as the old one
It actually looks far better than I thought. The front wing looks much prettier than the munter that was the BMW wing on their interim car. I like this new simpler, less fussy look, makes the whole thing feel a bit more about pure driving.
I think the Ferrari looks pretty good. The Coke thing isn’t new though, it’s just been hidden by all the flip-ups and air conditioners (Some of which remain).
All in all, it looks pretty good! Glad to see slicks back. Looks proper now!
Ha, my brother bet me a round of drinks that someone would say the Coke description had been around for years!
I realise it’s been a well used saying, but thought it very apt in this instance so decided to mention it.
I also agree it looks alot better than expected & hopefully with the slicks being brought back. My man Raikkonen can overcome his hurdles
tehe, fiat, or as ma little bro says, “fart”
Those proportions .. If only the front wing would have been bit smaller and the back wing bit bigger and lower ..
I think it looks great! they are going backwards again, i like that.
But i wish other teams would be at the top this year, goo renault!
Loads more pics here
If they could keep the 08 main body and rear form a McLaren and put that front on(Which i think looks stunning and not at all as a had feared, although the side shoeboxes are much smaller and better looking than the BMW one’s so if all the other ones look as different as the Ferrari and BMW (presuming that the BMW looks like the test vehicle) then we will have a brilliantly different looking field next year.
Hmmmmmm just cant take your eye’s off of that wing-gonna be weird looking at them racing
eeeeooooowwww! its not good is it! still not sure why the FIA changed things, the old cars were beautiful things and the competition has never been closer. If these changes work, then fair enough it will have been worth it…… if they don’t the FIA are going to look like idiots! (again)
Looks a damn site better then the BMW…
But seriously, as the eye acclimatises there not too bad.
I just realised on the vid Massa is above Raikkonen. is Massa the new Ferrari no. 1?
Wow… well that’s, interesting. I know Formula One cars have always had a unique “charm”, But this takes “charm” to a… more weird and… battered with one of Jeremy’s hammers look. Oh well! I’m still a Ferrari F1 fan. At least they changed the “F-whatever-year-it-happe ns-to-be” name.
The nose-cone is very 40’s-50’s
i think this car is much more composed and firm than the idea of f1 car from bwm in the las year. this one doest look as nice as the f2008 or it is maybe because we need to get used to this new shape to make overtaking easer. i like it is new. and if this make overtaking easier it will be more fun to see in tele making it much more of a competition between drivers
i wanna see the macca and then decide, looks better thN The beemer
Front on, the low wide front and tall narrow wing make it look like a caricature of a 2008 F1 car, like the cartoon Impreza pictures that the young ones like.
I hope the FIA are looking at these monstrocities and instantly regretting the rule change. Why it was never repealed I don’t know.
It looks better than i expected good look ferrari,Massa and Raikkonen.
all i can say is…… cars of the mid 90’s the ones i grew up watching. love it
I think it looks pretty great, and I’m excited to see the rest. However, Massa definitely needs to shave.
Not bad! But McLaren is the usual better looking car so I expect better from them.
And Massa… GET A SHAVE ! ! !
looks like a gokart
I think it’s gorgeous. How long til March?
Hang on, isn’t the ‘F60′ more commonly known as the Enzo? The F1 cars have a slightly different naimg structure do they not?
All I can say is that the racing better be good to make up for lack of good looks in the car department! No doubt the McLaren will look loads better. That front wing is just way too big/wide in comparison to the rear one – surely it would have made more sense to make it smaller, as I’m sure it’s just begging to be beaten off in the first corner. That’s if the FIA haven’t sneaked in a rule banning anyone in a non-red car from overtaking until the 2nd bend!?!
it looks bloody awful
just dont look at it head on! that’s the view that really makes one notice the rear wing’s, erm, “proportions.” well, and a direct rear view wouldn’t be to pretty either i guess.
other than that, i think it looks fairly gorgeous really. the three/quarters view is beautiful.
i’m a die-hard McLaren fan, but i must admit, Ferrari never fails to produce a looker.
and Damien (comment 17), can you elaborate on your comment? did i get taught an inaccurate alternate history where anything other than planes and rockets had nosecones in the 40’s and 50’s? or were you referring to the little oval “grille?”
and Rich (28), Ferrari sometimes goes with names other than the usual F(insert year here) with their F1 cars. i think it was 2006 when they went with F256 or just 256 or 2-fifty-something. someone fill in the actual number please…
If Football is known as ‘The Beautiful Game’ then the old F1 cars (Pre 2009) should be known as ‘The Beautiful Racer’ i just loved every flick, wing and curve now it’s atrociously bad looking, it’s the end of an era here folks, and as history has proven with design we’ll never see it again
hate the nose and the high rear wing, all in all though its better than what i thought, i guess
I like the new cars, especially the McLaren interim. That looks awesome. Not too sure that the ferrari isnt againt the rules with those wing mirrors. I thought the FIA banned all bodywork extremities.
Looks like a cheap R/C car on full scale…
Really miss the simplicity and style of the great looking cars of the eighties and early nineties.
Grandpa’s getting old
people calling for Massa to get a shave…. Let him have his moment – from the looks of him puberty has only just set in!
8/10. The Front and Rear Wings are pretty shocking.
Apart from that, nice work.
I think Ferrari have made a car which looks nice. If any one wants to watch the car in action go to youtube on the following link. http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=DAfhn6BaXHk
The F60 looks kinda like a GP2 car to me, I probably going to have a double take to make sure i’m actually watching the right championship!
The only thing i hate is the taller rear wing. It stands out too much and sluggs the good looks.
Hideous. especially compared to the beauty of last year’s effort
beautiful! i do like the nose a lot, but the side view mirrors i didn’t catch…
are you blind? its ugly. it looks like a mixture of the 80s and the 2000 cars.
the rear wing looks odd and weird for the rest of the car.
marcus (comment 31) in 2006 ferrari named their F1 car the 248 F1
going back to the topic, i think its fine… it looks more like a car from late 80’s and early 90’s
some say its butt ugly because they’re used to the newer designs… give it some time and you’ll get used to it… just like “honda’s dumbo nose wings” besides who would notice the car’s looks when you see kimi, massa, lewis, and fernando all overtaking each other in every corner?
for the most part, i like it. particularly the side pods, floor, and very tapered waist. the pipes and heat shields look great too.
we’ll still get to see some changes once the season kicks off, so i dont think this is the final look of the f60
The poles for the wing mirrors have an odd shape that looks a lot like the pieces they had on the sidepod last year but i thought they were banned.
Aw bugger they actually ALL look that ugly…
The most weirdiest F1 car ever. The nose way too long and the spolier is way too small. It remind of a early 1990’s F1 car but hopefully much quicker than what it was back in the 90’s.
Hmmm, Ferrari and BMW are fighting for the ugliest F1 car of the year. Nice. That rare spoiler looks too small and far too ugly.
If only it was a 90s car! Those had good proportions and great engine noise (V10/V12!). Guess the FIA is way to bizzy with the KERS debacle to admit that the aero rules also sucks, whatever you do, the proportions just do not fit, simple as that. If they would admit and ask the teams to redesign the cars F1 will not even take place this year..
Heh, i think ferrari are bending the new regulations slightly, the wing mirrors are actually just modified aerodynamic aids. Thats genious! I reckon they’ll get away with that, but everyone else’ll be doing the same thing now. The rest of the car just looks boring. there’s no excitement in the design of it. I think this is gonna be the worst year of f1 for me. The racing may proove to be good, but thats not what i like.
I’ll say it again: I like it. The car. Expected much worse.
And I looove slicks.
Bring on the season!
I like the lack of all those aero bits…
But that rear wing…. its just… eh, weird!
to the people who are saying the nose is too long: it just looks long because there are no more barge boards.
it’s sorta like when one does some “manscaping”…
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I hope the mclaren is better looking than this….but it will be. Even a Perodua looks better!
why dose the rear wing look less out of proportion in the video than the Toyota 2009 F1 car in the picture of that?
i still think the rear wing rules should be changed so it can look less dorky, tall and thin.
agree with I
I think the coke bottle deal was due to John Barnard in the 80s, it was referred to the exhaust-engine-radiators horizontal section.
The F60 looks quite decent. Rear wing is LOL, though, and without a purpose except idiot rules.
i think it looks pretty cool would be nice for massa to win world championship he deserves it undoubtably
Looks ok though im sick of of all the mega rich F1 companies making it seem like they ‘care’ about the credit crunch. Launching it in a facotry when they could easily afford a huge scale launch just to show they ‘care’ about the economy in the same way by giving it some strage looking aerodynamics makes it seem like they ‘care’ about the environment even though Ferrari produces the least green cars in the world!!
Ferrari, take a stand, admit you’re not feeling the recession have a huge scale launch event and stop pretending you are a green company!!
The car looks good though apart from the rear wing!
they seem to have more and more buttons on that steering wheel every year must be about 30 on there lol and the rear wing looks like a digger scoop
it dosent look good but if it fast as it says then all be happy
That rear wing…. gahhhh!!!
horrible car, totally messed up F1 next year, nothing on those cars comes with the right proporsions any langer.
awful go carts..
looks awesome,want to get in it and give it a blast.looks a winner to me.
It’s a car; get over it.
Is the F1 Championship now to be decided on viewers’ votes? Unlikely.
Let’s see how the do on the track.
Hopefully it might get near the bikes for strange, rarely witnessed activities, such as passing each other.
ok. Well maybe in 2010 – but don’t hold your breath.
id rather have it than my car
all the changes to this year cars are due to F1’s regulations change right?
it looks good from some angles… hmm maybe it will grow on me
as long as these changes improve the racing, it makes no difference what the cars look like 2 me
The new F60 is disapointing. Though all the cars look the same for the new season, the scarlett red just doesn’t seem to pull it off. If you look at the new Toyota (from a side angle) I think their white and red livery makes the rear wing more bareable.
Except for the rear wing, which will take some getting used to, I think the new changes look great. Would of been nice if they went back to the 2m width on top of all the other changes though.
It looks quite good! The front wing though is on the strange side. Looks like it extends so far beyond the front wheels, that in the first corner of the race, half the field will loose their front wing! The body of the car is incredible. Soft flowing curves, like a woman’s torso.
Looks quite good, but I’m not too sure about those wing mirrors, looks like they’ve built the whole car & thought: Uhmmmm? We’ve missed something here haven’t we?…Exhaust? No, got them….Ohhh wait, the mirrors, damn! E’hhh? Just stick them onto 2 long bits & stick’em to the side pods, that’ll do.
The rear wing looks……..Like Jodie Kidd, the 2 bits under the nose holding the wing in place looks a little odd too, apart from that, ok.
Looks like a silly toy!
F1 now has a Standard engine, reduced aerodynamic modifications, reduced engine mods, etc etc.
What happened to the great engineering?
Till when is this going to happen?
must we bear the sight of Starved-looking 90’s look cars on our TV sets?
Somebody tell me they’ore thinking the same!
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I LOVE THIS CAR it is better than mclarens 2009 car by far. Good luck to felipe massa and kimi raikinnon this season
reading these comments is both extremly funny and intresting, i find it intresting because it shows how dieverse peoples intrests are we have ppl who love it because it is simple and clean and we have others who hate it because of its proportions and becasue it is complicated and intresting like the pre rule change cars. Just a little note the reason of the coke bottle hips is to direct air flow and exuast into the wing to create as much downforce as possible last yrs cars had it too but it was less noticeibl becasue the wing was wider.
P.S sorry about the crap spelling
wow this is a very car..ferrari 2009 is fantastic!!!
It’s fantastic!!! I love Ferrari!!!
It was very big difference between from the F2008.
It was smaller then F2008 but it was very nice too
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what a car! these pictures dont do it justice!
Look for some better ones on google
its nice.i like it
i love it it is their best f1 car it is nice. I like felipe massa he his the best f1 driver in the feild!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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