What is that?
So everyone goes for a high nose but Brawn/Mercedes stays with their low nose?

It's just a nose piece on a table.
How can you tell if it will be mounted high or not?

Isn't this the old Honda nose they used for their presentation in Malaysia?

Buggers jacked our McLaren typeface

Quite a big hole for cooling the drivers, no?

Anyway, I can't wait to see how Mercedes/Brawn have developed their 2010 car. Its certainly going to be up there with Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull.

I hope its as extreme and rule stretching as last year.

I think the font is Bank Gothic, a font always used to show modernism, professionalism and technical ability. They need learn many fonts has come to the market after this. Its very old.
But it does the job i quess

it looks like the nosecone of a mclaren, what was it 21 or 22


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I thought that nose looked familiar http://f1chronicles.com/wp-content/uploads...dumbo-wings.jpg

I could be wrong but that nose looks suspiciously like the one from the RA-108 show car in Merc Livery from the Petronas event... Only the logo is a bit bigger....
But I guess we will find out tomorrow

Yes , that's what I thought, it looks like the nosecone of the old Earth Dreams Hondas, they had an identical-sized airhole and a surrounding bezel on their long skinny nose with flaired, broad frontwing struts ... but i got distracted with all the dumbo wings photos especially the poor old ra107, and lost all track of time, wow, still feeling a little dizzy, they really were a sight to behold.




...between a Brawn and a Honda painted as Mercs and christ knows what dressed up as a Renault, I really think the teams should quit giving us all the runaround.

Because of the shape. The pillars on either side are flat - that's the part sitting on the table - but the back of the pillar is higher than the front.

That logo not only seems bigger but also changes colour from black to silver. Anyway, we will see the real new car tomorrow morining.

Thats the old Honda / Brawn motorhome, repainted again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaubaby/8254...57600840294997/

Maybe...

(demo car)

You be the judge... I think it is this one just re-painted, early season without the dumbo ears ;)

What time is the launch today? It would have to be early so that they could get some testing time in. And since Toro Rosso and Williams are also launching, they'd have to do something of a balancing act to get them all in and get track time. It's 5am now, and I'm guessing testing will start some time around 9 or 10am ... does anyone know for sure?

ScarbsF1 Radical new merc unveiled with extreme nose and clever roll structure.

http://twitpic.com/10tuwn new mercedes

Noble: Mercedes Benz has unveiled its W01 - with that now typical RB5-type V nose.

nose is almost at at 45 degress by the looks of it

low nose and not long as mc and ferrari

sarahholtf1: Absolutely no fanfare. The car was rolled out and then rolled back in. It has a sloping front nose and tapered shark fin on engine cover

I like it. Doesn't look as "innovative" as the McLaren but it's simplicity might be its strength (I hope at least ).

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81167

Autosport article on the new mercedes

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81167

Not as long a wheel base as the McLaren from the looks of it. Very tight packaging at the rear seems like. Interesting , given that Mclaren has the same engine.

And red helmet it is!

http://twitpic.com/10twgj
http://twitpic.com/10twam

Is it really that radical?

that's a weird airbox.

Funky air intake

Only thing that radical is tanned Michael.

http://twitpic.com/10twrt

and a 'radical' exhaust. like the ferrari last year. clearly not legal is it?

are there those kind of lips alongside the nose on other cars?

Looks almost like those spoiler-winglets-things on the nose of LeMans Prototypes..

The sidepods are huuuuge, the nose isnt high enough to get as much air as you can in the diffuser, IMHO, the front wing is the same as last years. If theyre hiding the new front wing, then theyre gonna have little days to test it.
It doesnt look like its been worked on very much this winter...

U gotta be kidding there?

What makes you say that ?

looks dangerous... lots of new ideas on the car... i am sure they are proven and developed ideas... otherwise wont be on the car...

Looks like the old A1GP

Old fashioned compared to the McLaren.

Wow.. I didn't think any new car would out-sexy the Renault but that's gorgeous.

The front wing is old, i think it doesnt make sense to hide the new wing, if they have it, further more. I think other teasm will start testing their front wing this week. Every1 kept saying that u need a high nose for the new extreme(triple) diffusers and they have a rather low one, i hope they dont have last years diffuser. Brawn worked on last years car to the last race and it shows for now.

My thoughts exactly. Maybe Tony Texeira bought into Brawn?

Maybe they've already got the high nose and are going to test both versions? Better than going completely radical and being stuck with a dog of a car for half the season,yeah?

I completely agree with nothing you've just said.

Let's watch how the winter testing progresses....

is it really that low?
I mean it's not as high as other solutions we've seen, but it's not so low

I am not a Mercedes fan, but I really love this livery

It certainly works better on the contours of the W01 than it does the BGP001