2009 Rollouts
 

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72731

rrari have become the first team to unveil their 2009 car, ahead of the first run of their F60 at Mugello in Italy on Monday.

The car has been named as a way of celebrating the fact that Ferrari are the only team to have competed in each of the 60 years of the Formula One world championship.

Due to the radical change in F1 regulations this year, the look of the new car is dominated by the wide front wing and narrow rear wing - with the central part of the F60 featuring a highly-sculpted 'coke bottle' rear-end from behind the sidepods.

The new car features Ferrari's Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), which has been developed in conjunction with electronics supplier Magneti Marelli. It is mounted on the engine - although the team has not yet confirmed whether the device will be used for the first race.

"As you can see the car is not an evolution of last year's car," said technical director Aldo Costa.

"It's a completely new car, starting from a white piece of paper. Fundamentally the biggest changes come from the new rules from an aerodynamic point of view and the introduction of new technology, which is the KERS system.

"Because of that we had to start work pretty early and to review the main concept of the car, so it was a very very intense and long job."

The F60 features longditudinally-mounted carbon fibre-cased gearbox and has a new Brembo designed braking system.

Felipe Massa is scheduled to test the car for the first time later today at Mugello, with initial shakedowns having been switched from Fiorano because of freezing temperatures at Ferrari's test track.

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as of noon England time, every F1 team began making models of the ferrari front wing support, and testing it in their wind tunnels. :hello:

It's great to see slicks, but that rear wing remains troubling to me...

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The wings are going to take a little time to get used to, but the rest of the car is absolutely beautiful. It's nice to see clean lines on an F1 car again.

This new look will take a bit of getting used to, especially the very narrow rear wing.

for some reason, the Ferrari doesn't look as dopey as the BMW. probably the red vs white color.

i still think too that the littlest bump and these front wings are going to break off.

can't believe the car still has those ugly wheel covers, and there isn't a single aero piece that diverts air from infront of the rear wheel.

how is that rear wing suppose to punch a bigger hole in the air for a trailing car? 90 of the car is the area under the rear wing.

i think the car would look 10x better w/o any rear wing than that lump.

ahh man i completely forgot today was the unveiling of ferrari's car.

totally agree with u. it just looks so awkward. i think they should have kept the old wing dimensions.

i think besides the color, it's the size of the bmw's nose.

just think of all cars touching each other at the first corner.