Am I being irredeemably stupid - or does AtlasF1's archive material really provide almost everything you could possibly never wish to know about Hermogenes Prune's slowest lap of the 1997 Isle of Sheppey Grand Prix in his Granada but entirely - and unforgivably - OMIT any useful information on whether the winning car was a Ferrari F2001B or a Williams FW19D or a BAR 003Z...or whatever....???
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place?
Could anyone help the terminally confused....?????
DCN
Full Version: Recent era Formula 1 car model IDs...
Model numbers make no sense these days anyway.
I mean, take McLaren as an example over the last few years.
They race an "interim" car that's "90% new" in 2003, but call it MP4/17D rather than MP4/18.
MP4/18 doesn't race, but a car that's 90% the same as MP4/18 races this year as MP4/19.
Now that's being replaced by something that's virtually a new car (new tub etc.) but that's MP4/19B rather than MP4/20.
It seems to owe more to psychology and marketing than logic these days!
Or has Ronzo been sniffing the paint at his new James Bond Secret Base at Lydden?
I mean, take McLaren as an example over the last few years.
They race an "interim" car that's "90% new" in 2003, but call it MP4/17D rather than MP4/18.
MP4/18 doesn't race, but a car that's 90% the same as MP4/18 races this year as MP4/19.
Now that's being replaced by something that's virtually a new car (new tub etc.) but that's MP4/19B rather than MP4/20.
It seems to owe more to psychology and marketing than logic these days!
Or has Ronzo been sniffing the paint at his new James Bond Secret Base at Lydden?
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