Vodafone McLaren MP4-27 Mercedes

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time to post an interesting picture:

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Are they testing visibility for the driver? :D
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New chassis on the way! heard it here first!
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n smikle wrote:New chassis on the way! heard it here first!
We claim that one! :lol:
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Noticed that now when watching FP1, here´s another angle.

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From the talks, we MAY understand that mclaren will probably go for stepped nose ?

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Whitmarsh said in a previous race it was for next year, whether that's all smoke and mirrors I don't know

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ajdavison2 wrote:Whitmarsh said in a previous race it was for next year, whether that's all smoke and mirrors I don't know
Yea that seems to be the most logical explanation. Can´t imagine they would completely re-design the car in the middle of the season.

But who knows if the regulations will stay the same for next year, isn´t there talks on lowering it even more?
Even bringing 2014 regs in 2013 in terms of the nose height.
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Nando wrote: Yea that seems to be the most logical explanation. Can´t imagine they would completely re-design the car in the middle of the season.
They would if they saw a clear advantage in it, and we aren't really in the middle of the season yet

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can you spot the different?

clue: front wing :lol: :D

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They look the same to me :cry:
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dave34m wrote:They would if they saw a clear advantage in it, and we aren't really in the middle of the season yet
I doubt there really is an advantage to it in the first place. The car was stupendously quick with a low nose as well so i´m not sure high nose/low nose really is a major factor.

Sure not exactly in the middle of the season but you get the point.
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Post deleted because the quote function cropped the photo for no reason. There's no point in referencing someone's photo if phpBB decides to cut off the bit I was talking about.

I'm posting this as a bug report in the site renewal thread if it happens again.
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volarchico wrote:
ParanoiD wrote:Just read an article on Autosport Mag, it said that McLaren opted the high nose because the lower nose has limited potential to be explored. Will this limit the potential development of the MP4-27? and if it will and let say they opted to change to higher chassis which will be costly, does that take their much of their resource which again will limit held back their development?

Just a thought anyway..
Your username appears quite appropriate after a post like this.
:shock: Just wanted to see how changing to higher nose chassis will affect their development :)
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chepoi wrote:can you spot the different?

clue: front wing :lol: :D
i give up, please tell....

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Looking at that pic, Lewis' nose looks like its stepped.
I assume thats the same nose as Jenson has in front just the angles are showing just how different the profile is.

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