A fair few of the 06 competitors have launched their cars recently.

First off was the McLaren MP4-21 in a splendid 70’s based yellow (harking back to the Can-Am days)

Next up was the Ferrari 248 designed by Aldo Costa, they launched saying it had a radical new mechanical and aero package, however noticing that the MP4-21 launched a day earlier was ‘clever’ stated that it will change significantly before the first GP

The last of the ‘big’ boys to launch has been Honda with the RA106, they where also the only team to show off two completed cars for launch. Nick Fry was quick to point out that this is the first ‘all Honda’ F1 car since 1968. Geoff Willis also pointed out that Aero Package efficiency has been the core focus of the Honda RA106 project, stating that the V8’s require better Aero efficiency than the V10’s used to.

All very pretty cars and quite significantly different to the V10’s they are replacing.