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I'm one of those people that likes all interesting design styles. Even if they are hard to like aesthetically, I am glad we get the uglies and the beauties. It provides a nice contrast.

Personally I get tired of boring aero-designs. I enjoy seeing things that are strikingly different.

When is caterham going to release a decent picture of their car?

It's a very nice car apart from the nose aesthetically though, loving the back end of the thing and the livery looks great.

Whichever car wins the title will be seen as a beautiful car. The ones that bring up the rear will be seen as ugly.

It's how it always is.

Agreed. Apart from the nose, it's pretty. And the nose is dictated by the new rules.

What are these new rules trying to achieve, btw?

The move towards lower noses has been one of the safety aims of the Technical Working Group (TWG). It’s long been feared a car striking another with a high nose will likely make any accident worse. Both in the case of nose to wheel contact or a nose T-boning another car. So a lower nose will help prevent cars flipping or being penetrated in these instances.

A secondary benefit could also be improved visibility for the driver, as the front of the chassis and nose will be lower, obstructing the view far less than the very high humped noses of late.

A supplementary benefit is that the already limited space to aerodynamic devices under the raised chassis will be further eliminated. This area still housing turning vanes and flow conditioners, even after the drastic 2009 aero rules changes.

Because F1 cars get air in every race.

By that logic, they shouldn't bother making the helmets safer, because they don't get stuff in their heads every race.

I'm one of those people that likes all interesting design styles. Even if they are hard to like aesthetically, I am glad we get the uglies and the beauties. It provides a nice contrast.

Personally I get tired of boring aero-designs. I enjoy seeing things that are strikingly different.