Photo Comparison MP4/23 - MP4/22

[axle]

I'm struggling to find it but I saw a pic of the McLaren wheel fairing earlier which had the exit in the UPPER forward quadrant instead of the lower fwd quadrant. I think it was most odd...I know the pic was by Sutton Images but I can't remember where it was now - but it was most odd!

EDIT - Ahh here it is.

http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954, ... 72,00.html


What do we make of that?!?!

[teecof1fan]

good job on the pic, axle! The obvious question I think of is did this wheel cover come before or after the wheel cover with the slot in the lower portion? Whichever of the covers ran later, I would assume, is the one that they'll be running come Melbourne...IMO of course I'm no expert!

[Carbon]

Just a thought...any chance that the new wheelcover is just the same wheelcover that has rotated out of position? Perhaps one that didn't lock into place? The openning strikes me as a very perculiar position, one that draws much air, without a place to vent it.

[modbaraban]

There's also a possibility that the cover wan't 'locked' into its position properly so it might have gone loose

EDIT: Carbon beat me on this

[teecof1fan]

I'm with both of you in that it's possible the cover slipped out of place...But if it did, do you think it would just 'stick' somewhere? I think if it came loose it would spin with the wheel instead of ending up in that exact spot, but I don't know...Like I said, I'm no expert!

[Conceptual]

Unless the brake duct actually vents OUT there, causing a "bubble" behind it?

I don't know, and without a pic of the other side, we probably never will..

Unless Scarbs has something to say on this subject?

Chris

EDIT:

Australia proves the slots on the McLaren are in front of the wheel centerline, not behins like the Ferrari.

Chris

[Mr. Floppy]

i think mclaren used a new rear wing



http://www.adrivo.com/community/blog/entry/60

[Ratatouille]

Besides the new rear wing, IIRC the MP4-22 used angled rear wing mountings, and from what I see in this last picture is that these mountings are now straight and not slanted as they were in the MP4-22

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