S5000 vs Formula5000

[bone]

i've been following the S5000 rollout from a distant...but i'm disappointed by the cars, they look way to bulbous, especially the nose...

but i remember seeing one for the first time and thinking it looked awesome!
so i went to google, and found this article: https://www.motorsport.com/openwheel/news/new-formula-5000-car-makes-track-debut-837703/837703/

that's a formula5000 car! not an S5000! but that article is already from 2016...anything happened with this series? this thing still alive and kicking? i haven't heard anything about? or was the Formula5000 the prototype and the S5000 the final product?

 

[bone]

found some info!
https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/23/new-s5000-car-revealed-ahead-of-2019-launch/

so both the formula5000 and the super5000 failed homologation, so the 2 series merged and created the S5000

so they went from these beaties:

to this:

?? --> that's supposed to be smiley : no :