2012 Caterham CT-01

What if they will add something under neith the noise but they don't want to reveil it yet? (worst speculation ever )

Very aerodynamic nose.

This is a good shot of the "step" in the nose



Apparently the design is necessary because in modern-day F1 cars, the airflow underneath the nose is becoming increasingly important for the aerodynamics, hence why teams aren't reverting to the Brawn-style low nose.

If Trulli is going to drive that and it doesn't work, we'll be hearing:

"Curse you, Perry the Platypus!"

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Great stuff but you missed one pretty important aero part which we have not seen before but which i think will be a very common thing next year. Especially considering the Ferrari sketches that circulate shows a similar version of it.

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I think this is the ugliest car I've seen for the last 20 years... It's even unglier than the Williams' crazy nose.

Watch out for Ferrari.

They will probably go along the lines of another italian "beauty".

I think Ferrari will come up with a more stylish way of intergrating the new design.

Pff 2 minutes ago I finaly understood why Caterham have this nose and now I expect all cars to have it. This is the new rule:

2012 rule changes - lower nose

In order to increase safety, for 2012 the FIA has decided to lower the height of the car's front section, primarily to lessen the chance of one's car's nose intruding into the cockpit of another in the event of a side-on collision. As can be seen in this diagram, the height of the chassis immediately ahead of the cockpit can still be up to 625mm above the reference plane (PR), but then in the space of 150mm it must fall to 550mm. This is expected to lead to some rather awkward-looking, stepped-nose designs on the 2012 cars, including Ferrari's new machine.

Problem is the nose isnt lower then last year, atleast the tip of it.
Mclarens nose from '11 is also border line legal so there are ways around.

We really can only hope that Adrian Newey comes up with something genius that hopefully doesn't look like this and is then subsequently copied by everyone...

As usual

I stand confirmed. Somebody at maranello hates curved lines, the nose, omg, the nose...

I stand 100% corrected!