Formula One 2050: McLaren Style
- Thread starter Paul Jeffrey
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I think you should give future us more credit, much more likely it will feature advanced technologies such as diffusers, side skirts and efficient aerodynamics. More like this
I got bored
Seems like they haven't been paying much attention, though - this is what will be happening just two years later in 2052:
Kinda what youd expect from these futuristic concepts but they will probably never sound like this ever again.
And that rac track looks kinda bad for the fans. Looks more wipeout/F-zero than anything else.
And that rac track looks kinda bad for the fans. Looks more wipeout/F-zero than anything else.
Durge Driven
DD
As a lifelong Motorsports fan I can't believe so many are stuck in the past
If 30 years ago you were shown a 2019 McLaren you would say the same
If 30 years ago you were shown a 2019 McLaren you would say the same
Looks a bit far fetched.
You know what that track needs? A chicane.
Bill & Ted already showed us the future of racing.
At least they are failing to accomplish what they are currently trying to achieve. Them predicting the future is beyond me. I guess I am going to stay happy as long as they are failing.
Dirk B RM eSports
RM eSports
And I'm ashesthank god I'll be senile by 2050
(such a ghastly vision of the future, some circuit looking like the Citadel in Mass Effect, sited on some expensive real estate with the cliffs and blue ocean, whizzing cars cheered on by the super rich - hard to read anything else into that mock up. Good to see they have designed a track that looks like it's impossible to overtake on though haha)
Theodore 2019
@Simberia
Organic as a cockroach
Not a single original idea in this concept.
Not an attractive vehicle.
Not an image even remotely possible in 31 years' time.
Look back at what F1 was 31 years ago. Look at it now. Notice how it really hasn't changed all that much? I'm getting really, really bored of all these design student future race car concepts that are pure conceptual wank. Almost nothing in them even makes sense. Almost no rules in racing are made to make the cars faster. That's not going to change simply 'because future.'
Also, the reason most race circuits don't 'scythe through the main streets' is because almost nobody actually wants that. People have places to be, businesses to run. You can't shut down the major parts of a city for a stupidly-expensive sport that, let's face it, the vast majority of the world's population doesn't give a damn about. Putting a race in a major city also doesn't get the fans closer to the action - in modern F1 circuits the viewing areas are located in a different time zone for safety, not because it's not a city. Again, 'because future' doesn't change that.
For all the talk about morphing surfaces and active aero, that concept vehicle has obviously never seen a CFD simulation.
I'd love to see a good near future race concept that actually thinks about anything in a rational and logical way, taking into account how the sport actually evolves and develops. These design wank exercises serve no purpose at all.
And I say that as a designer.
Not an attractive vehicle.
Not an image even remotely possible in 31 years' time.
Look back at what F1 was 31 years ago. Look at it now. Notice how it really hasn't changed all that much? I'm getting really, really bored of all these design student future race car concepts that are pure conceptual wank. Almost nothing in them even makes sense. Almost no rules in racing are made to make the cars faster. That's not going to change simply 'because future.'
Also, the reason most race circuits don't 'scythe through the main streets' is because almost nobody actually wants that. People have places to be, businesses to run. You can't shut down the major parts of a city for a stupidly-expensive sport that, let's face it, the vast majority of the world's population doesn't give a damn about. Putting a race in a major city also doesn't get the fans closer to the action - in modern F1 circuits the viewing areas are located in a different time zone for safety, not because it's not a city. Again, 'because future' doesn't change that.
For all the talk about morphing surfaces and active aero, that concept vehicle has obviously never seen a CFD simulation.
I'd love to see a good near future race concept that actually thinks about anything in a rational and logical way, taking into account how the sport actually evolves and develops. These design wank exercises serve no purpose at all.
And I say that as a designer.
