Overnight a number of video clips featuring the Red Bull Racing RB8 have been uploaded to YouTube. We’ve assembled them together here in one place for you. Also included are Q&A interviews with the team’s major players. The image above, captured from the first video, gives one of the best looks yet at Adrian Newey’s [...]

Overnight the covers came off the Scuderia Toro Rosso STR7. As has become the norm a ‘platypus’ style nose is featured and on the STR7 it’s one of the more elegant examples we’ve seen to date. Although it doesn’t have an intake/scoop as seen on the sister Red Bull car. Following the fortunes of Toro [...]

Here’s a quick comparison of the last two Red Bull Racing F1 cars, the RB8 and the RB7. We don’t have a lot of comparable pics at this stage, but click on the pic above to launch a 2000px super image. Despite a poor angle, the change in the nose design is clear to see. [...]

Red Bull Racing has just unveiled is title-defending RB8 racecar in Jerez. For now we have just two studio images of the most eagerly awaited car in F1. Already we can see the RB8 features the now ubiquitous ‘platypus’ style nose. Click on the pics to view them at 4000px. The RB8 appears to bring [...]

The Sauber C31 has just been unveiled in Jerez and we learn another platypus has been sacrificed at the 2012 F1 altar. Sauber is entering its 20th F1 season and maintains its driving line up from 2011 with Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez. Similarly the relationship with Ferrari as drivetrain supplier remains. “The Sauber C31-Ferrari [...]

Word on the street says this is the new Red Bull Racing RB8 being unloaded at Jerez, where it’s due to be launched tonight (midnight AEDT). Of great interest is discovering if the RB8 will follow the alligator/platypus interpretation of the 2012 regulations, as Caterham, Ferrari, Force India and Lotus have done. Based on the [...]

The Lotus F1 Team unveiled its 2012 F1 car early this morning. It’s called the E20 and, as you can see, it features the “alligator” style nose we’ve seen already on the Caterham, Ferrari and Force India. We’re not sure if it’s because we’re now getting used to these noses, but the E20′s design doesn’t [...]

With the official unveilings of new F1 cars taking place it’s a timely reminder that official pre-season testing starts later this week at Jerez, in Spain. In-season testing returns in 2012, but it has come at the expense of a pre-season slot. That means the teams have less time to prepare before the season kicks [...]

Narain Karthikeyan has officially become the last driver signed for the 2012 Formula One season. The 35-year-old Indian has been signed by HRT where he will join fellow old timer 40-year-old Pedro de la Rosa. Luis Pérez-Sala, Team Principal HRT, is happy to see Karthikeyan back after he started eight races for the team last [...]

When you compare the McLaren MP4-27 side by side with the Ferrari F2012 you notice something quite interesting. Notice how much lower the nose is on the McLaren? There’s a few more comparison pics for you after the break too. Please note, of course, these images are intended to be a quick comparison only and [...]

Here’s five images comparing the F2012 against last year’s F150 Italia. At first glance it’s really just that horrible nose on the F2012 that stands out, but spend some time to look more closely and there’s quite a few differences between the two cars.

Force India has unveiled their 2012 challenger, the VJM05, at SIlverstone today. They are the next F1 team to give us an “alligator” nose and we now have to question if McLaren is playing silly buggers with the conventional nose on the MP4-27. Drivers Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg were in attendance, along with [...]

Ferrari has just released images of their new F1 car for the upcoming season. This year it’s simply called the F2012, leaving behind the unique F150 naming saga from last season. Now, that “alligator” nose. It’s not pretty is it. Ferrari acknowledge this too, saying: “The nose has a step in it that is not [...]

Ferrari was all set for a big reveal of its 2012 F1 car at Maranello today. But, as the pic above shows, heavy snow has made things a bit tricky. As such the red team has cancelled their launch event. However, the good news is pics and info of the new car will still be [...]

Just like the title says, here is a comparison of the new McLaren MP4-27 and its predecessor the MP4-26. Side on profile and overhead images have been compared, with the 2012 car appearing first.