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Originally Posted by chillibowl
speaking of smaller cars, and the R25 specifically as i brought it up in the other thread but really all of those cars from the mid to latter part of the 2000s were not always nice to look at with all their winglets and antennae.
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They varied, people got used to them I suppose:
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the mind plays tricks maybe, but those smaller less wide cars weren't exactly providing better racing then what we are seeing today with the larger cars no?
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It's annoying that shape and proportions were defined by misguided regulations and not by engineering progression. Changes to the dimensional regulations of the cars from 1993 onwards like narrow cars, narrow tyres, rectangular nose box cross section, grooved tyres etc only seemed to make the cars worse (with notable exceptions like the X-wing exclusion zone which was a good idea, and the minimum radius rule for the sidepods which was a good idea).
Do people really think the narrow second car on grooved tyres with its FIA-mandated rectangular nose cross-section, looks
better than the wide former car on slick tyres with its elegant round nose... Really?
The FIA only ever reduced the width of the rear tyres too, not the fronts. That's why when the tyres were scaled up equally front and rear in '17, we ended up with ridiculously wide front tyres.
