McLaren was left the odd-one-out on Friday, as Ferrari and Force India joined Caterham in launching new cars with ‘ugly’ noses.<\/p>\n
The odd feature – a quirk of new regulations – is the centrepiece of Ferrari’s new F2012, launched on Friday morning at Maranello, and the Mercedes-powered Force India VJM05, whose covers were pulled off in the chilly Silverstone pitlane.<\/p>\n
“(The car) looks very different actually from what we have seen in the past two years,” said Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n
Agreed Felipe Massa: “Let me tell you that it looks very aggressive.”<\/p>\n
Telegraph correspondent Tom Cary, however, had another view, insisting the Ferrari, Force India and Caterham have “nasty nose jobs”.<\/p>\n
But McLaren’s new MP4-27 features a clean aerodynamic line at the front.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bit of a hot topic this year,” Andrew Green, Force India’s technical director, acknowledged to Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“Obviously a lot of people commented on the McLaren a couple of days ago.\u00a0 For us, it’s not a big deal.\u00a0 It’s purely aesthetics.”<\/p>\n
Paddy Lowe, McLaren’s technical boss, said the team had retained a more conventional look because last year’s car already had a “philosophy” in line with the new rules.<\/p>\n
“You can’t see performance necessarily by eye, it’s a matter of fine-tuning the balance between all the relevant aspects,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
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