10. The McLaren MP4/2 was one of many McLarens that had a superlong engine cover, giving it a camel-like (and Indy-car like) appearance.
9. The Jordan 198 Mugen-Honda was typical of a lot of late 1990s F1 machinery with a shark's nose raised in the air with the front wing strapped underneath. Not pretty.
8. The McLaren M9A from 1969 had a joyously ugly rear wing made in the era before wind tunnels. It was narrow and very long, stretching from just behind the drivers' shoulders all the way back to the rear tyres. It looked like it could double as a crazy golf hole if taken off the car.
7. The Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler. Some say it is one of the most beautiful cars ever made, but the two tiny sets of front wheels make it look slightly freakish - like something made up by a set of F1 mechanics entering Scrapheap Challenge
6. Williams also produced a six-wheel car in the early 1980s with two rear wheels this time and it was significantly quick. Quick enough to be banned by the FIA before it could run in a grand prix. Again this was a beautiful freak, the kind of Scalextric car that Sid in Toy Story might make.
5. The Lancia-Ferrari D50 of the mid-1950s looked like someone had strapped two fat radiators to the side of a really pretty car. Maserati had the common sense to streamline their design.
4. The Hesketh-Ford 308 (1975) James Hunt's trademark car had the biggest and ugliest airbox the world has ever seen.
3. The Tyrrell-Ford 002/003 from the early 1970s, beloved of Jackie Stewart, had an artistically challenging combination of wide-belly ground-hugging chassis, fat airbox and chunky front wing. It went like **** off a shovel, but it was no Ferrari 312.
2. The Tyrrell X-Wing. Introduced in 1997 by Tyrrell on its 025 chassis, these mid-mounted high towered wings were aimed at increasing downforce when travelling close behind another car. They were legal, but ugly as sin. The FIA got so fed up with everyone imitating them and lots of cars looking like aero experiments that they made up a rule to ban them and that was that. Good, old-fashioned practical Stalinism.
1. The Brabham BT34 'lobster claw' (1971). Like the Tyrrell, the bulbous front wing made it look like it was an enormous crustacean. In those days Brabham were a highly inventive team but the lobster remains the only shellfish to inspire F1 draughtsmen.
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