The 50 Best Looking Formula 1 Cars: No. 35 – No. 31
Below is the continuation of the 50 Best Looking Formula 1 Cars series. In this edition you will find cars No. 35-31. Be sure to check out the previous editions to find cars No. 50-36.
35. Jaguar R5
After a disappointing season in 2003, the R5 was Jaguar’s last role of the dice; the team hoping for a change of luck.
Though the R5 proved to be a step up from its predecessor, Jaguar couldn’t claim the results they so badly desired. The team was subsequently sold at the end of the season, and Red Bull Racing was born.
The R5’s green/white livery, and the pouncing Jaguar which elegantly adorned its engine cover, made for a beautiful sight.
Despite this, its designers thought that its nose could do with some improving mid-way through the season.
For the Monaco Grand Prix, the noses of both of Jaguars were fitted with diamonds worth close to $250,000 each in an effort to promote the upcoming film, Ocean’s Twelve.
Ironically enough, one of the diamonds ‘disappeared’ after Chris Klein’s first lap crash, never to be seen again.
34. Renault RE60
Similar to the Jaguar R5, the RE60 would be Renault’s last factory built entrant (though they would continue to provide engines to the sport, and would return as a works team sixteen years later).
There was good reason for their departure however.
Renault had enjoyed some success in the early 1980s, yet by 1985 the team was in a sharp decline. The 1985 season proved to be yet another disappointment, one which would see Renault’s benefactors walk away from Formula 1.
The RE60 was indeed a good looking car, but just as it was inferior in design when compared to its predecessors, it was also outshone in the looks department as well.
33. Renault RE30
Renault were unaware that they had peaked when they unleashed the RE30 onto the world in 1981.
Since 1977, Renault had been steadily improving, and the RE30 was Renault’s first (and unfortunately, last) contender to have a serious possibility of taking the championship.
The RE30 would be used in both the 1981 and 1982 seasons, and for two races in 1983. In its lifetime it managed to claim seven race victories, whilst also placing Renault third overall in the world championship in its first two years.
Though it never claimed the championship win, the RE30 would be Renault’s most accomplished and best looking racer. Until, of course, the covers came off the R25 twenty years later.
32. Bar 002
The BAR 002’s livery was nothing special, yet the car’s design looked, for lack of a better word, mean.
The no nonsense looking 002 was a remarkable improvement over its predecessor, helped along by the return of engine supplier, Honda.
Though the 002 and its successors failed to win a race during BAR’S 1999-2005 lifetime, consistent finishes in the points proved to Honda that the team had potential; the Japanese company buying British American Racing at the end of the 2005 season, and forming the Honda Racing F1 Team.
31. Jordan 191
The famous race car whose picture hung on a number of children’s bedroom walls during the 1990s, was Jordan’s first Formula 1 car.
And it arrived on the scene with a bang.
Though the general rule is that blue and green should never be seen together, the 191’s bodywork was so impressive that in this case, the rules seemed not to apply.
The car is now recognized by many as one of the most beautiful Formula 1 racers ever made.