Ha, yes! Audi have excelled themselves. The R18 looked superb but
: this thing is a mess. Ok, the wing is in the ACO's rules but the
: paint job seems to be there to link it to the new A1 Quattro.
: The F1 and Indy cars just look awful. We'll get used to it, we
: did with the skinny grooved tyres in F1 and so on. The argument
: against less aerodynamic and more mechanical grip in F1 is that
: there will be less space for sponsorship (and possibly for
: safety reasons) but the more the regulators try to restrict grip
: and speeds by other methods the worse the cars actually look. I
: don't know the situation in Indycars. In F1 they should junk the
: wings and paint the sponsorship on the tracks...

Anything is an improvement over the Lotus 49 and Ferrari P4, or Maserati 250F and Jaguar D Type.