McLaren MCL32 Honda

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Please keep Testing Talk in the Testing Thread.
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 478#p67747
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That strake wasn't there during launch as well.

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Pictures by AMuS.

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Great pictures! Thanks for posting :)

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mclaren111 wrote:GPUpdate:
Bad news for McLaren: Honda confirms an oil systems issue which will take "several hours" to resolve
Guys, that's either testing thread or power unit thread. Let's not flood the topic with posts about how it will hurt the team's performance. Given the car will now be several hours in the garage, the flow of information and pictures will be low. For the time being, check the other car topics.
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You really can't stop it guys can't you?

Deleted the Posts about PU failing, Honda failing and so forth. Again this is not the right Thread for that.
If this keeps going this Thread will be locked until the Car runs again and we have a Chance for actual new Information on the Car to come up.
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Thunders wrote:You really can't stop it guys can't you?

Deleted the Posts about PU failing, Honda failing and so forth. Again this is not the right Thread for that.
If this keeps going this Thread will be locked until the Car runs again and we have a Chance for actual new Information on the Car to come up.
I think the MCL32 not being on a test rig is relevant

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Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.

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matt_s wrote:Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.
Thay always cover the diffuser at launch, so no trickery there ....

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Holm86 wrote:
matt_s wrote:Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.
Thay always cover the diffuser at launch, so no trickery there ....

Agreed, although the diffusers are less agressive then I expected (in regular). However I do still strongly believe that the MCL32 is a good, solid and slightly agressive engineered car, I'm very curious how the rake, diff, higher rear suspension wishbones and the rear wing will preform all together. I think they've combined it all together more then the other cars. I'm not sure on 'how' it will all be 'combined' though :oops: (because of course, it counts for all the cars)

Somewhere in my mind the term 'coanda effect' comes into sight, but then on a larger scale on the entire back of the car.. Thats of course just my arm-chair knowledge :oops: :oops: :oops:

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matt_s wrote:Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.
The diffuser looks very similar to last year. I wonder is this a "first day" floor. It looks very simple. No flick ups along the forward floor like most teams and no slots on the rear floor either. I can't imagine this will be the configuration for long.

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mikhak wrote:
matt_s wrote:Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.
The diffuser looks very similar to last year. I wonder is this a "first day" floor. It looks very simple. No flick ups along the forward floor like most teams and no slots on the rear floor either. I can't imagine this will be the configuration for long.
on the upper side of floor/diffusor looks different to others(like it has 2 bumps or pillows) also the part of floor right next to rear tires looks like it has strangly shaped vanes.

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mikhak wrote:
matt_s wrote:Anyone seen anything on the diffuser yet that McLaren may have been trying to hide at the launch? Nothing looks out of the ordinary from the picture so far.
The diffuser looks very similar to last year. I wonder is this a "first day" floor. It looks very simple. No flick ups along the forward floor like most teams and no slots on the rear floor either. I can't imagine this will be the configuration for long.
Good point. They probably want to ascertain if the PU+packaging will run before worrying about aero. But if that's the case, it seems there's even less of a reason to hide anything.

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Looks like a Merc-type plenum.

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