This aside, there have been many beautiful f1 cars; they were different because of the technologically advanced and pleasant shapes, the spot on colours and therefore they remain unforgettable.
All this goes beyond the competitiveness, the obtained results, the fans opinions and the personal memories.
A car possesses its own beauty regardless of the era when it used to race, mixing shapes and colours, the accuracy of the construction with cure of the details.
The best way to judge them would have been from a “live” perspective; watching them approaching a turn at impossible speed or just observing them still and shiny, close to our craving hands.
Does this sound simple? I don’t think so.
The most beautiful car doesn’t exist.
It’s impossible to find it among those one that filled the race tracks with noises and smells.
There have been many beautiful cars and we can only recall a few, the best known or the most boring ones...if we can say “boring”. I know.
I know that you (like me) are thinking of the legendary black and gold john player special livery. boring? maybe; but it was the right choice for that period of time, that era.
It has been a truthful and charismatic choice.
Let’s try to go beyond, to look into our memories in a precise order, trying to find, better to rediscover, something more unusual that we can’t remember at first, but that will carry the pleasure of the new revelation.
Let’s try to name some famous ones…and some not!
La Ferrari F1 2000 del 2000; la Mercedes W196 del 1955; la Lotus 72 del 1975; la Zakspeed Zk189 del 1989; la Benetton B188 del 1988; la Williams Fw17b del 1995; la Maserati 250 F del 1957; l'Alfa Romeo 182 del 1982; la March 881 del 1988; la Williams Fw14 del 1991; la Renault Re60 del 1985; la Ligier Js19 del 1982; la Wolf Wr-1 del 1977; la Ferrari 312B del 1970; la Mclaren Mp4/14 del 1999; la Jordan 197 del 1997; la Brabham Bt 52 del 1983; la ATS D6 del 1984; l'Alfa Romeo 184 del 1984.
Too many? I’d say not enough!
The list is surely much longer; many other cars deserve to be mentioned.
Maybe not everybody will agree on those but maybe it’s because we don’t clearly remember them, because we don’t like that particular era, some sponsors or the single colour cars of the golden years.
The “obvious” and single shaped rockets of the 60’s? let’s think about the eagle or the lotus.
Those strange mutant cars of the 70’s.
Let’s think about the BRM.
There would be so many more that we might not like or not notice, but in their era they were admired for the technology and, again, for their beauty.
For every era there are cars to remember, for the feeling they gave even before they started to race.
In the future I’ll try to write about some of them, telling their stories whether they are made of victories or not.
Every one of you is invited to do so based on their personal taste.