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Ferraris tend to be beautiful cars on and off the track, but what some of the crappy cars mentioned previously have in common is that they were decidedly ugly, such that you wonder if they were any more aerodynamically efficient than a Mack truck. Take the 1980 car, for example. The 312T5 continued the design trend of the 312T4, which meant that it looked rather like a table on wheels. It may have worked the year before, but with cars becoming more streamlined by 1980 (take for example the Brabham, the Alfa Romeo and the Arrows), it was a style that had to go.
The 1992 F92A wasn't much better in the looks department. It was a terribly chunky thing, with a strange double-floor that had never been seen before, and never been seen since, and probably never will be seen again. Add to that two radiator air-intakes that jutted out horribly from the side-pods, in complete contrast for example to the 640 model of 1989 which had rounded side-pods (such that from above the car looked like a vase) for maximum aerodynamic efficiency. |
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The 1996 Ferrari F310 was equally an eye-sore. It was also a chunky, lumpy beast, and it copied the monstrous side-pod idea from the F92A. It had a sort of single-pylon raised nose at the start of the season, which in turn gave way to fully raised, double-pylon raised nose that seemed to have been scabbed from the Minardi.
And although this didn't actually affect their performance, it would be remiss of us not to mention the disastrous colour scheme employed on the F93A, when Ferrari tried to hark back to the glory days of the mid-1970s by adding a white stripe on the rear cowling behind the driver's head. The unanimous verdict on this design was a big thumbs down, with consensus being that it made the cars look like the Dallaras' not-so-distant cousins. Rather appropriate, that, considering their performance that year ... |
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