Soulbringer's GP4 blog: januari 2022

03 januari 2022

F1 2022

 Few months only, until next f1 season starts again and I just couldn't not explore new regulations.

Even though I do not like the look of new cars, and maybe just because of that I started to shape one of them.

I was in the middle of finishing Red Bull RB16b and it came natural I guess as continuation in back of my mind to shape new 2022 Red Bull. For side pods I took inspiration from Adrian Newey's previous work at McLaren, for I imagine designers often reuse some of older ideas for their new cars. air intake was much larger and extended lower down initially. I later changed that having air flow to the back of the car in mind. Continuing on the front end it was same basic Idea there, Mp4-18 and Mp4-19 McLaren was inspiration. Until it came down to tip of the nose. FIA's model had this wide bulky looking nose which I did not like at all, but I had to come up with something similar. Since it started narrow and got wider in the end the nose resembles a lot the one Mercedes had on their cars since 2018 i think. Issue was I did not want to shape Mercedes, at all!

So I did some changes and decided it was McLaren in the end.

Still early work in progress