Team: Tim Goss (Director of Engineering), Paddy Lowe (TD), Neil Oatley (DRD), Martin Whitmarsh (TP), Jonathan Neale (MD), Sam Michael (SD)
Drivers: Jenson Button (3), Lewis Hamilton (4)
Team name: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
Not without crushing their drivers feet. Plus I think there's a reg for bulkhead dimensions.morefirejules08 wrote:Would it be possible for McLaren to retain the upper profile of there nose while changing the underside to what we see on the stepped nose cars?
excellent analogy, sums up the airflow around a f1 car perfectly, cow dung in a river =D> although on a serious note, get the air going to the rear, then deal with the rearn smikle wrote:THink of it like a river. If have cows passing faeces at the river head, then youre gonna have cow dung downstream.
I know, i'm just wondering if the exhaust solution is that dependent on the front?n smikle wrote:THink of it like a river. If have cows passing faeces at the river head, then youre gonna have cow dung downstream.
Maybe because they alrdy exhausted all the possibilities of development at the front ? Something mclaren hasnt not running a stepped nose and all.astracrazy wrote:why is the focus on the front of the car, when in red bulls case, there major update was the rear (exhausts mainly) which has gave them such a forward step. Shouldn't mclaren perhaps be looking at there exhaust/rear end set-up first?
yes, because if the air doesnt get to the correct place on the rear you cannot divert the air for your exhaust solution, to direct the exhaust gases to the diffuserastracrazy wrote:I know, i'm just wondering if the exhaust solution is that dependent on the front?n smikle wrote:THink of it like a river. If have cows passing faeces at the river head, then youre gonna have cow dung downstream.
Lets say for every update they bring to the rear they gain 10points of downforce right now, but if they raise the nose and have more flow to the floor then now each of those updates brings 12.5points of downforce, plus any benefits they gain from the initial raising of the nose.Huntresa wrote:Maybe because they alrdy exhausted all the possibilities of development at the front ? Something mclaren hasnt not running a stepped nose and all.astracrazy wrote:why is the focus on the front of the car, when in red bulls case, there major update was the rear (exhausts mainly) which has gave them such a forward step. Shouldn't mclaren perhaps be looking at there exhaust/rear end set-up first?
Q: Jenson Button has suggested you were ‘30 points’ behind Red Bull in terms of downforce and that it would take six or seven races to make up that deficit. Do you agree with that analysis and can you explain what ‘30 points’ means?
Paddy Lowe: A point is Formula One code for a hundredth of a fraction of ‘cl’, where ‘cl’ is the downforce coefficient. Physically a Formula One car has a downforce coefficient of let’s say 3 to 3.5. So 30 points would be 30 hundredths which would equate to 0.3. So 30 points might be getting on for 10 percent of the downforce on an F1 car and that could be worth about a second a lap.
Does it look much higher?n smikle wrote:High nose!! It's coming!!Watch the car on Friday!
were the sidepods always so small?Owen.C93 wrote:Does it look much higher?n smikle wrote:High nose!! It's coming!!
