Mclaren Mercedes MP4-25

[mith]

Actually, the more I look at it, the more I think the diffuser may just be missing some pieces. Mid-assembly, or something.

That's what I thought when I've seen that photo. there are also holes on the side of the mounts of the rear wing (sorry, I couldn't spell it better), which indicate that something will be attached there. We'll just see how they will drive their cars tomorrow.

[Blackout]

But the deck in 'the not complete' diffuser is different than the deck appeared in Barcelona and looks more like the old one...

[PlatinumZealot]

They didn't put on the diffuser augmenter yet it seems. Mith is correct the holes in the wing endplates look to line up with the diffuser augmenter.

[outer_bongolia]

Actually, the more I look at it, the more I think the diffuser may just be missing some pieces. Mid-assembly, or something.

edit: should have checked Atlas first - yep, the diffuser in that pic just wasn't complete. Probably why it was all scooted to one side.

Here she is, ready to play...

No flames please, but I have a dumb question. I'm sure the information is somewhere in the last 100 pages, but I couldn't locate information on it.
The tube that is coming down the middle and exiting above the crash structure... WTF is that, and where is it coming from? Is it the other half of the blown wing assembly with the "pneumatic switching device" posted somewhere else?

It can't necessarily be a cooling pipe so important to exhaust separately through the cooling hole methinks.

[allstaruk08]

haha im not even gonna start explaining what it. read this http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2010/0/720.html thats a basic explanation of that its for. so am i the only geek up for the free practice on bbc red button??

[Craigy]

haha im not even gonna start explaining what it. read this http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2010/0/720.html thats a basic explanation of that its for. so am i the only geek up for the free practice on bbc red button??

You're not the only one awake.

C

[narkie]

allstaruk08 wrote:
haha im not even gonna start explaining what it. read this http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2010/0/720.html thats a basic explanation of that its for. so am i the only geek up for the free practice on bbc red button??

You're not the only one awake.

C


Ditto, although i must say its nice to have some F1 action happening at an Australian-friendly hour. Friday night and here's my beer!

cheers all

N

[thestig84]

Nice shot of the Mclaren with quite a bit of bodywork off

Sneaky peek of the F vent tube too

[f1rules]

wow where is that photo from, i wouldnt expect that mclaren would allow such a picture this early in season,

[thedutchguy]

Something I've been wondering about all cars that use the shark fins which are connected to the rear wing: Is the angle of the wing still adjustable? And if not, how can the amount of downforce from the wing be adjusted?

[chasefreak]

wow where is that photo from, i wouldnt expect that mclaren would allow such a picture this early in season,

it has to be from bahrain since the new sponsor stickers r on the roll hoop ( hope i am right )

[raceman]

wow where is that photo from, i wouldnt expect that mclaren would allow such a picture this early in season,

you can't make out almost anything from this photo; many photos are around of all teams' cars at such "naked" stage, especially you can't make out anything of the snorkell device.

[Fil]

it does show off a lot of the packaging of the sidepod tho. i'm sure the other F1 teams find that very useful to compare. obviously not quite so useful info for us tho.

[raceman]

it does show off a lot of the packaging of the sidepod tho. i'm sure the other F1 teams find that very useful to compare. obviously not quite so useful info for us tho.

rite

[f1rules]

but still, to show this much, mclaren are definitely more open then years back, where they would never have allowed this picture that early.
Lol sorry, i meant who took the picture, is it sutton, wri2.net xpb.cc i was asking because maybe there were more good pics like this. In general the photographers are not good at taking the right pics. wri2.net is normally by far the best. But since we lost f1-live and their high res, the pics supplied has been really bad