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Perhaps that could be what Mclaren were worried about someone protesting.
McLaren MP4-27 launch
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Perhaps that could be what Mclaren were worried about someone protesting.
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I'm guessing it's designed to scoop up air, pressurise it and push it over the splitter (the tongue extending forward under the cockpit) to generate more downforce.
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Sorry for the oversized image, but really that thing under the nose is very interesting!
Looks kinda like alternate version of ground effect aero to me.
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I think you nailed it mate! Also, as suggested by F1 fan that might be the thing that is currently being protested.
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Here is the floor
I'm guessing they're pushing the air into there.
I'm guessing they're pushing the air into there.
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Well not yet anyway, but rumours surfaced that Mclaren were worried something would be protested. The fact that the article was removed from Autosport means it's either true, or a complete fabrication.
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E: Picture posted 1 post above
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Oh, look it's not a scoop!
I see but it's another add-on aero. More downforce like prisonermonkey said.
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Thats on the floor not the front wing, the perspective makes it look like it is though.
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I've noticed that some of the rear bodywork goes right up to the rear diffuser, and it appears that there are small openings angled just above it. Once of the things Red Bull did last year was route air that went through the sidepods over the gearbox to provide cooling - they had a basketball-sixed opening in the rear bodywork. I think McLaren are going in the opposite direction, with smaller openings over the diffuser to create a simulated EBD using pressurised air. I wouldn't be surprised if the channel that starts with the sidepod and ends over the diffuser is designed to force air over the diffuser to create downforce.
It's just very difficult to tell, since the teams like to keep the rear ends of their cars as quiet as possible.
It's just very difficult to tell, since the teams like to keep the rear ends of their cars as quiet as possible.
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You can't really see it in this photo, but the car looks like it has a very bizarre nose. It appears that there is a piece of bodywork extended back from the centre of the front wing to some point under the safety cell.
Fantastic side-profile
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Or not...
EDIT: Side profile above, is that just the end of a turning vane under the nose and behind the front wheel?
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Black wheels now... Is that to hide something (though aren't the wheels homologated now?) or just a standard colour change?
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McLaren said that the car is an evolution of the MP4-26 so nothing much is expected. Now they've sort of following the steps of Red Bull making an evolution of cars instead of starting from scratch every single year...
About black wheels, no I don't think they're hiding anything behind there.
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I've noticed another change, there is now a door in that corridor behind the front wing! Expanding the MTC then!...
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