Using its online Lotus notes magazine, Team Lotus have launched their new 2011 F1^TM car.

Calling it the T128 and continuing the numbers on from the original Lotus cars it’s said to be a more agressive design than last years entry.

And going by the launch press shots, it’s so aggressive it appears to have been launched in an multi-storey car park in the dead of night like it’s just assaulted someone and is demanding a suitcase full of money to be slid along the ground to them to avoid any more ‘misunderstandings’

Every mention of F1 ^TM in the magazine is given a trademark ^TM, even when they mention our lovely another f1^TM podcast, which is scaring us a bit as we have clearly infringed copyright, so from now on we are anotherpopularmotorsportpodcast

LIVERYWATCH: Green like zuccini, with a metallic sheen looks like camping equipment.

Renault have launched the R31 live on the internet today, calling the car brave and addictive.

Using the JPS (not JPS) JPS Gold and Black colours that adorned the Lotus cars in the seventies are back and all the sponsors (except snooty Total who insist on a red that looks as though the designer slit his wrists all over the car before it was finished)

The backend is apparently tighter and more daring and blah blah blah, go to any F1 forum aroundabout now and you’ll find lots of people talking about stuff that we don’t understand.

We pretty much just discuss the colours here.

It does seem that the unique, brave and aggressive thing that the team is doing is having 26 test drivers, alongside the main drivers of Kubica and Petrov there is: Grosjean, Charouz, Tung, Fauzy, Senna, as well as Jeremy Clarkson, Jim Davidson’s character in ‘Home James’, Ronnie Biggs, Parker from Thunderbirds, Frank Spencer and Maureen from Driving School also ready to leap into action.

Oh, and who ever was putting the stickers on put the E of GENII on backwards. Awkward

Photo via GpUpdate/Sutton

Sauber, now so Mexican it will (actually after watching last nights awkward Top Gear tirade on Mexicans, let’s just skip any xenophobia) has launched the C30 (so close to the C-3PO, now that would have been a car, a lanky awkward camp car).

After last years all-white car that lacked sponsorship, downforce and in these pre-season sandbagging tests, fuel, things are looking up for the team with a solid money base from every Mexican company chipping in, to the reckless wonderous driver of Kobayashi and new boy Sergio Perez who will be mainly buying rounds of drinks and apologising.

LIVERYWATCH: still mainly white, looks like a fridge with the eco-saving boasting sticker still on it.

Ferrari have gone super snazzy with their internet launch of the 2011 F150. But don’t seemed to have noticed that they’ve just re-launched last years Ferrari F10.

And this naming structure needs to go, unless there were 140 revisions of the car last year.

Pictures are up on the Ferrarif150.com website (and link on the top right of their home page ‘for fans’ is nothing short of laughable).

The rear wing, as exclusively revealed by us this week, carries the new “BLOODY ITALY” livery and the patriotism it embues is said to be worth up to a tenth a lap, even half a second at monza.

Otherwise there’s not much to report yet, aside from it looks kind of horrible.

2011 Ferrari Formula 1 official site.

Ferrari have announced that their new car will be used not only to contend for the Formula One World Championship but to get Luca di Montezemolo into politics.

Therefore they have given it a patriotic name: “The Bloody Italy”.

It will be emblazoned over all the livery and overalls and publications, whenever the 2011 challenger is referred to it will be “The Bloody Italy”

“Ferrari is an expression of Italian excellence, talent and creativity,” said president Luca di Montezemolo. “All the men and women who put so much effort and passion into their work at Maranello share the pride and responsibility of representing our country around the world and it is in this spirit that we chose to dedicate this car to an event that is so important for the whole of Italy.”

The engine has been tuned to play only the national anthem and both drivers will have their nationalities changed by deed poll.

And when Luca becomes president he will, like the FIA, make it illegal for Ferrari not to win every sporting championship.

BLOODY ITALY FOREVER.

New Ferrari will be called the F150 (via ESPN)

Mercedes have announced that they will launch their car all over the pit lane of the first test at Valencia on 1st Feb.

In this Resource Restriction era, gone are the glitzy launches in massive arenas of old, and now Messrs Schumacher and Rosberg will only have to sit awkwardly on a tyre at a test alongside some other teams,

To ensure that he doesn’t repeat his 2010 annus shittus Schumacher is said to be determined to beat Rosberg in 2011, even if this means murder

Lotus Renault GP (Glib Phony) launched its new/nicked livery at the Autosport International Show, and considering that they had chosen to launch it there Autosport remained incredibly impartial and were in nooooooo way sycophantic.

The Lotus naming saga is getting pretty boring really, the only thing that is interesting about the whole tawdry saga is the amount of people who are happy to line up to suck a bit of corporate Renault cock in exchange for some of their dirty dosh.

We’re not unaware how sycophantic we are currnelty being (thank you Team Lotus for letting us come visit) and when it was Team Lotus that was using the black and gold livery we thought it was a great idea.

But now it’s the ‘enemy’ (still the same team that cheated Piquet Jr into a wall) we can get on our high horse and say boo to the idea of tobacco colors coming back (has JPS done a backhander of massive proportions).

This is going to run and run (The Lotus naming saga, not the new Renault), but us with long memories in F1 (not long enough to remember Actual Lotus in their heyday) won’t be able to see the team as English, honorable and all about the fans…..Hang on what’s that whirring sound? Is it KERS? Nope I’m pretty sure it’s the sound of Colin Chapman spinning in his grave.

Like a new cat being introduced to a house with lots of other cats, the BGP 001 has finally been allowed out to play and sniff the behinds of the others.

I don’t really know what that means.

but today, to prove it wasn’t just a mirage, jenson button went and drove the car that is actually real and not just made out of milk cartons and highlighter pens (despite how it looks) and actually went and set a bloody quick time. Maybe milk cartons are lighter than carbon fibre?

Obviously fuel weights and a driver so worried he hasn’t eaten since december mean the times are a little flattering. But still, despite my sarcasm, its good to have them back.

Torro Rosso have finally worked out how to paint over Red Bull’s design and have launched their car in Barcelona today.

they say it’s not just a rebadged Red Bull, but that is probably because without Vettel it will be a lot slower than the mother team this year.

Powered by Ferrari engines the two Sebastians have it all to prove this year as they fight it out amongst probably the lower half of the grid.

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The 2009 Force India racer was launched today in jerez, Spain. Using German Mercedes engines the team hopes that its Italian and German drivers can really make india proud.