Well, at least Trevor Taylor gave it a go...It's safe to assume Trevor Taylor probably got the most out of the car. I doubt Clark or Hill could have squeezed much more out of it.
I believe the Shannon ended up in Formula 3 and was still racing n that class at the end of the 1960s...
It looks like it was built to accommodate Mansell. I hated everything about it. The shape was fat and unsculptured and the colour was dreadful. It looked slow.
Da Sausage wrote:Does it have anything to do with the yellow and blue paint scheme by any chance?
I am surprised no one has added the 2009 rear wing spec Williams in here yet!
As for the Forti there were plenty uglier that year, the McLaren (MP4/10) with the mid wing being one of those that made the 'fighter plane nose part of their look....except the McLaren had to be restructured to fit Fatty Mansell. Pics of it already posted earlier in the thread. Certainly a case where bigger isnt better......
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kals wrote:Yes I agree, the 1995 McLaren was pretty foul. I still LOL at remembering Mansell's comment at the launch "If it goes as quick as it looks". HAHA
That Forti is an odd one - from front on, it has the one of the pointier nose cones around (and it was fairly novel back then), but from the side, it looks like a brick, never mind a supposedly aerodynamic race car.
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I think the 107% was introduced in 1996 because of Forti's pathetic performance in 1995. If I remember correctly, at Monaco in 1995 they were something like 12 seconds per lap slower than Hill and Schumacher.
kals wrote:Yes I agree, the 1995 McLaren was pretty foul. I still LOL at remembering Mansell's comment at the launch "If it goes as quick as it looks". HAHA
Even without the "mid-wing", it looked awful. I remember the way it was displayed at the launch didn't exactly flatter it either. Mansell soon came to realise that it also "fitted my physique as well as it looks"!