Imagine telling your race engineer which wheel you're having understeer in that 6 wheel Tyrell.

I heard that when Romain Grosjean drove the first laps in the E22, the balance of the car was so bad, that he thought he had a puncture on one of the rear tyres... :0

I was definitely looking for the Brabham BT46B. The only fan car in F1 history. It's a race-winning car.

The Arrows A22 and its extra front wing! Mounted on spindly legs high above the nose, it was about as robust as the fur on the robot ‘Diotoir’ on the Robot Wars series.

Even after all these years I'm still amazed Rubens got that Honda RA108 on the podium at Silverstone.

The early 2010's really were a low point for aesthetics, the lego-nosed Ferrari being one of the worst offenders.

Next, THE RACE should make a list of the weirdest proposed tracks in F1.

It must have been quite some interesting times when designers could even create 6 wheelers. For mr still the most curious F1 car.

The interesting thing about the mid-wing on the MP4/10 is that Ron Dennis went round telling everyone that one day every team would have one. And he was kind of right, because in 2017 every team was running an enlarged shark fin engine cover with a mid-wing perched on it. So just for that one season his prediction come true, 22 years after he made it.

When can we have Top 10 Ed Straw moments.

Brabham BT34 “Lobster Claw” Ferrari 312T4 & T5 Ensign N179 with the nose-mounted radiators Ligier JS5 with the giant airbox Lotus 56B

I knew my favourite car, the P34, would be on this list! Such an amazing idea. Ken Tyrrell had hoped that other teams would adopt the 6 wheel design and that Goodyear would then increase development of the small front wheels. I built a 1/20 scale model of it earlier this year.

STP March 721 with it’s “tea tray” front wing was unique.

the 1972 Eifelland was my personal favorite! A car with a periscope rear mirror above the drivers head. it's quite a sight to see!

The 2011 McLaren with the L shaped side pods - quite a beautiful looking car in my view

The Eifelland E21 with only 1 mirror of 1972 was also a unique car.

02:35 Rory Byrne is a great designer, but they run of competitive GPs sometimes were due to underfueling the car and running out of petrol. Not every GP, but only they know when (1984 Monaco?). Hats off to him, because co-designing the 1994-95 Benetton was a huge achievement.

Surprised by the omission of the 1976 Ligier... what an abomination. Worth an inclusion more than the 2004 Williams imho.

The Lotus 56B from 1971 with a gas turbine engine. Those were the days with a light touch on engine regulations. Based on 1967's STP Indy 500 near-winner, which was even crazier with the driver sitting offset to make room for the turbine. At least Lotus's F1 version was symmetrical, if not terribly beautiful. And from the same year the March 711 with its tea tray front wing. Optically a tour de force. I always the loved the appearance of that car!

And I remember the Mercedes event where those shots of the W196 were taken at Silverstone - I was commentating on a club race meeting on the other circuit layout and kept being distracted by all those beautiful classic Mercs going round in the distance from my commentary box!

I actually liked the F310. I was doing fluid mechanics then, so learning what the pods were trying to achieve was interesting. It was nice to see the pod design evolve through the redbulls in later years

The Williams 6 wheeler might have been worth an 'honourable mention' since it never raced, but was certainly unusual.

An honourable mention should go to the Lotus type 56. While it used the same wedge shape as the very successful type 72, the 56 was strange not so much for its looks, more for its engine. Rather than the popular and very successful Ford Cosworth DFV V8 engine, it was powered instead by...a Pratt & Witney gas Turbine engine, aka a jet engine. Rather than hearing the distinctive revving of a conventional Internal Combustion Engine, to hear the whistle of a jet engine as the car was powering up must have been incredibly strange. It wasn't used very much, as throttle lag was a big issue, although there is a picture of Emerson Fittipaldi driving the car at Monza in 1971 with the car in World Wide Racing colours

The March 711 tea tray must surely deserve an honorable mention?

Honourable mention to the 1995 Benetton and Ligier cars, or at least the earlier versions, with those big square topped air boxes. I think they designed them to try and bypass the holes that were mandated half way through the 94 season in attempt to reduce engine power and thus speed in the wake of Imola. But then some time in to the 95 season the FIA decided it made no difference and closed the holes and Benetton/Ligier went back to a conventional design

Classic summer break content

The Eifelland E21 with its central mirror, vent and weird bulbous bodywork; the Ensign N179 with his weird stacked nose radiators; the many weird lobster-like shapes of the Tecno PA123 and the oddly W13-esque Modena Lambo 291 all definitely deserve a mention as strange looking F1 cars go.

Thank you THE-RACE, we will never forget the hyphen.

Those 2008 cars are beautiful

1983 Tyrrell 012 with its "boomerang" rear wing is also one of the weirdest F1 cars

Looking at the 2022 cars compared to ever generation before them is like looking at a 2023 Corvette next to a 2008 one; they’re so advanced and organic looking that they might as well be from another planet. A more developed and civilized one.

The real inspiration for the current Merc : The Modena f1 with its Lambo 291 , and the triangular sidepods…

Mine would have to be the Brabham BT-52, Gordon Murray thought it was the obvious solution to the skirt ban but was shocked when no one else went that route with their designs in 1983.

That Ligier with the huge airbox. JS5? Arrows A22

I still remember watching that six wheel car coming down the hill at turn one & two of the Long Beach Grand Prix it blew my mind to see that car when all the cars would literally get airborne exiting one down the steep hill too turn two!

The '88 and '89 Benettons with their twin low-mount air inlets and standalone roll hoop were certainly weird among naturally aspirated cars.

Some of these cars have great meme potential

Another car that looked out of place in Formula 1 was the Theodore TY01 that competed in 1981, its front wings were located about halfway up the nose cone of the car.

If it don't look it ain't good. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

The W196 is also the only car (that I know of) to have competed in both Formula One and Le Mans. The 300 SLR, which was infamously involved in the 1955 Le Mans disaster, was a modified version of the W196 and was also known as the W196S.

suggestion : a list of features teams put on the track that 'should' of been made standard to push the sport forward but instead were 'banned'. my vote for such a list would hands down be mercedes tilt-camber steering. imagine if that mechanic had been standard on all 2022 cars... wow.

Thanks for this list again

I have a soft spot for the Benetton Tyrell 012 'Boomerang' wing.

Gary Anderson, of this parish, referred to the Ferrari 310 as 'The Skip'!

I always had a soft spot for that mp4/10. 95 was one of the first seasons I remember watching, and I always wanted a model of that car.

The Tusks actually make sense, if you consider that the TV broadcasts used a Fleetwood Mac song as intro music for years ;)

Man, I needed a video from you guys today. Great content choice for me to get my mindset shifted. Thanks, The Race. I appreciate you! 👊🏻🏎

The V-wing March of the 70's with extreme dihedral was certainly strange as well as the tea table one thanks to Maurice Phillipe and a misunderstanding of the use of dihedral. At least an honorable mention.

I wish they had a video out there of that six-wheel f1 cars pit stop.

And the winner is Tyrell(Tyrell, Mercedes AMG, Honda).

I can't find it anywhere but for a few races there was a car with two giant vertical planks right in front of the driver. There was huge discussion of these limiting visibility or not and they were made illegal quite quickly.

As a kid I was gutted when the Williams car dropped the walrus nose haha

Missing on this list is ARROWS A2.. What an wierd looking ride🤣🤣

Why no mention of the Eifelland Type 21? It didn’t have mirrors….it had a periscope!

@8:44 - You might call it weird, but I absolutely LOVE the W196.

You know your getting on a bit when you can remember watching 7 out of these cars racing .

The call for subscription "If you like what you see..." seems a bit odd in this video 😆

Great list - but you missed out the Brabham BT34!

I can't believe there's no mention of the Eifelland E21 or the Brabham BT46B. There's so many more unique and interesting F1 cars and The Race picked all the least unusual ones.

The W13’s sidepods make it look like the F-117 Stealth Fighter

That March wit hteh "tea Tray" wing

Ferrari 312T ... as a kid watching Schumacher win in F1 I got toy version of the before mentioned car and I struggled to recognize it being F1 car ... while fairly normal design for it's time, it still stands out for me to this day

Love the ridiculous designs from 2008, including that goofy Honda!

i genuinely love the tusked lotus' looks

I would have included (any of) the super high winged cars of the end of the ‘60s.

what about the Brabham BT46 fan car, the March 711 and the Ligier JS5

Thanks for having the 2004 Williams on there

My favorite BMW williams 2004, but sadly it was a failure more than a good front nose

Weird designs conclusions: 1) if they didn’t work pass to history like ugly cars 2) if they work teams do whatever there is in their power to ban them and get out of the rules ASAP

The 2009 Spec Cars when the first broke cover were weird looking.

The Tyrrell P34 6-wheeler for the toy car aesthetic.

You didn't mention the gas turbine Lotus....? and what about that Cooper that put the engine behind the driver!

The Eifelend with its central mirror should have make the list

I always liked the Tyrrell 025 and 026, they were pretty tidy looking cars minus the x-wings. The low-nose F310 was a nice looking car too, the high-nose version though... that looked hideous.

What about the fan car? Great list!

I’d love for the Mercedes portion of this video to be updated post the season to see if it was successful or not

Surely any car Mazepin drove was weird. It never looked straight!

you miss the obvious ones, the 6 wheeled tyrell, the brabham fan car. and a few more.

Getting the Merc copycat in...and not the original Lambo 291...is a CRIME against IP property. 😝

The w13 has a fighter jet vibe too it, very angular and sharp looking, if only it didn't have its issues

Eddstraw'ordinary video once again!

Brabham BT46B, the only ever car winning a world title with a unique fan car characteristic.

i've forgotten that merc doesn't have sidepods and i also kinda like the x-wings

March 711, Arrows A2, both missing from the list

Further contenders would have been: the Brabham BT46B, the original boomerang-wing Tyrrell 012, the March 751 with its monstrous wing-extensions from the British GP 1975, the "wingless" wonders Lotus 80 and Arrows A2, definitely the Lotus 56B turbine car, the Lancia-Ferrari D50 with the sidepannier fuel tanks, the March 701 with its aerofoil shaped sidetanks, which preceeded the Lotus 78 ground effect car by some 7 years, the BRM/lotus 43 with the BRM-H16 engine, the original Renault RS01, the Lotus 49 with the wings on ever larger stalks mounted on the uprights from 1969 and Brabhams and McLarens from the same year, the twin-chassis Lotus 88/88B from 1981, the teapot shaped Ligier JS5 from 1975, the 4wd Ferguson P99 from 1960 and the BRM P67 from 1964, the 4wd Lotus 63 with its cousins McLaren M9A, Matra MS84 and Cosworth 4wd cars, the Ferrari 312B3 Spazzaneve from 1973, the twin-snorkel Brabham BT45, the original Brabham BT46 with surface-coolers, the Ferrari F92A with double-floors, the lowline Brabham BT55, the Life with its W12-engine.

Ferraris 2012 car with the stepped nose. How alonso got that car to championship contention was a Herculean achievement.

2009 Renault with that Boxy Nose 2007 (I think) BMW Sauber with its tower wings at the French GP What was the car that had the radiator built into the front nose in the 1970s? The Renault Teapot RS01

I think this year’s 2022 Ferrari F1-75 is weird with those wide ditched sidepods.

The 2004 FW26 is a Beauty Queen ❤😇🌷🌸

At 9:22... is that Toto Wolff driving the Streamliner?

To be fair, most cars in 1996 had those ugly big headprotection-thingies except Williams and Sauber.

I was waiting for the Eifelland e21 and ensign n179

The Arrows A2 of 1979 looked straight out of science fiction for me.

I always liked the Walrus nose as it was different and I could see what they were trying to achieve.

Imagine turning up to F1 with a single seater modded group 3 car.

The 2008 cars look exactly what I would expect a 2008 f1 car to look like with no prior knowledge.

Not including the infamous Brabham design with the fan? That must have been the craziest, along with the six wheeler.

The Arrows A2 looks like it belongs in an Aviation Museum rather than a race track. And of course, the teapot Ligier JS5.

W13 sidepods looked like Muk first time I saw them 😅

As soon as I saw weirdest cars I knew the 6-wheel Tyrell had to be there.