Rear end comparison

[vintly]

Great pic from Sutton Images

[John S]

Nice comparative shots Vintly, good find. 

Looking at them I'm struck by the apparent difference in the height/rake of the Red Bull, Lotus, McLaren and to some extent the Williams. All the others seem to have a much lower slung stance between the driver and the rear wing area. Maybe some of the teams have caught up to Newey's special trick of angling the rake of the car from back to the front to increase downforce yield on the front wings. 

Also interesting to see there are as many solutions to the shape of the rear bodywork as there are teams.  You'd think with modern computer aided design the huge supercomputers would churn out one perfect solution.