Haas Technical Thread (VF-19)

Looks fast     

Looks fast

Edited by ixnay, 07 February 2019 - 11:12.

reverse US flag on the renders!

Edited by PiperPa42, 07 February 2019 - 11:15.

I'm confused. I thought it was just a new livery, but it clearly has new stuff, how?

The livery is meh. It's a Lotus with inferior gold elements for me. But then again it's a upgrade for sure.

Menacing

Literally all the 'fan art' concepts were better.

That looks like a 5 minute MsPaint job. 

Splodge. Splodge. Done. 

Colour scheme's giving Grosjean flashbacks.....

Pretty basic, isn't it? Looks decent enough not to be bad but that's about it. 

reverse US flag on the renders!

It's reversed on that side because the stars must always face in the direction of travel, according to military uniform flag use.

On aircraft you usually put the flag the way it would fly. This makes it reverse on the right side, they could be going for the same here.
Here is Air Force One as an example.


And Haas has done it previously.

Rich Energy - Poor Livery

When I see the front I see Lotus.

The thing I like from the livery is the Rich energy logo on the Halo.

The rest is more like White > black AND red > white

On the plus side the banter was top notch.

I quite like it - less is more.  It looks better than the recent gold Lotuses.

It'll be interesting to see how the gold-and-silver combination works on track.

Looks to me from the livery (or lack thereof) that HAAS is hedging its bets on whether RICH ENERGY will be around for the full season...

That's a new car, not just a new livery

Without any thorough comparison my guess would be that it's the 2018 chassis with some new aero bits to suit the 2019 look. It's a pretty standard solution for these kind of events when you can't and/or don't want to show the whole thing too soon. 

Edited by Anja, 07 February 2019 - 11:20.

I like it, but am more keen on the finances of it all.

The only Haas livery I've liked is probably the one they started 2017 with, but that lasted about four races. Last year they just seemed to go back to the 2016 colour scheme. 

This......um, need to see it on track. It's not dire. 

Edited by JacobRPP, 07 February 2019 - 11:24.

The new livery is not bad but they could have done so much better that this.

Whats a deal with  deer antlers? 

How is this being paid for? scratches beard

Haas F1 team will BEAT Red Bull this season, according to team’s sponsors, Rich Energy

Storey: "We are confident we will beat Red Bull in many races this year. That is holy grail marketing but sometimes you get a bit of serendipity and right timing."
"Red Bull have spent £250billion in F1 and last year across Toro Rosso and Red Bull, there or there abouts, £400million"
"Ultimately, we are going to have a better-looking car."



https://www.thesun.c...-red-bull-2019/

Wow, the salt in the forum is just wow.

The car looks amazing. I like the incorporation of the stag in the livery.

I do not care for who the sponsor is, the artist behind the car is good.

I do not care for who the sponsor is, the artist behind the car is good.

The "artist" barely did anything here. It looks like half an hour's worth of work. 

I understand sometimes less is more. But this is black with three edge tip lines (engine cover, front wing end plates), and a reused scoop down the nose. The rest is just slapped on.

I'm not even convinced that the placement of RE name on the roll hope air intake will translate to being easily visible on track at speed and angle. The only stand out is the Haas name,as with previous years.

Oh, and golden mirrors. It's lacklustre even for minimal.

Whats a deal with  deer antlers? 

Sponsored by Whyte bikes. 

Looks like a Lotus livery when you run out of gold paint.

Edited by A3, 07 February 2019 - 11:47.

Rich Energy - Poor Livery

That front wing should do a good job of clearing the snow in Barcelona

Looks great to me. 

Looks really long in that pic for some reason.

HAAS should've been written in gold as well in my opinion.

quite like it actually....

Mind, I hope they haven't signed Ronnie Peterson just to be a no. 2 to Mario Andretti.

HAAS should've been written in gold as well in my opinion.

Haas F1 team will BEAT Red Bull this season, according to team’s sponsors, Rich Energy

 

Storey: "We are confident we will beat Red Bull in many races this year. That is holy grail marketing but sometimes you get a bit of serendipity and right timing."

"Red Bull have spent £250billion in F1 and last year across Toro Rosso and Red Bull, there or there abouts, £400million"

"Ultimately, we are going to have a better-looking car."

 

 

https://www.thesun.c...-red-bull-2019/

£250 billion in what 20 years? So that's £12.5 billion a year. This guy's a fruit loop....

I'm not sure you can call finishing when the other car breaks down beating (technically it is) but beating them on merit?