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The Bridge wing is missing, I suspect that they have a new version coming for Australia and don't want any teams seeing it before Australia.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
So:
- the nose is a little higher (which makes the front wing supports kinda ugly) and more gentle sloping sides.
- some work around the snorkle with different pillars and some guidevanes
- T-wings are pretty different with endplates on both sides instead of the previous support-flowing-into-plane + only bottom part of the outside endplate
That's about all I can make out with certainty from the pretty crappy pics I've seen so far.
m3_lover wrote:The Bridge wing is missing, I suspect that they have a new version coming for Australia and don't want any teams seeing it before Australia.
m3_lover wrote:The Bridge wing is missing, I suspect that they have a new version coming for Australia and don't want any teams seeing it before Australia.
The other pictures I have seen show no bridge wing, so that was my mistake.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
m3_lover wrote:The Bridge wing is missing, I suspect that they have a new version coming for Australia and don't want any teams seeing it before Australia.
The other pictures I have seen show no bridge wing, so that was my mistake.
Yes I was at the launch, the whole event was low key but the team were very open. Ron was quie,t he arrived with Bernie and Norbert (in spec savers glasses..!) had a short speech and left the Daimler boss do the rest of the chat. In the interviews it was only Whitmarsh, Ron looked on from a distance but wasn’t involved…
I got to have along chat with Paddy Lowe, first time I’ve met him and he’s a real nice guy.
As far as the car here are the key points
Longer wheel base created by longer gearbox
New nose, raised unlike recent Mac designs.
New forward bargeboards, no longer merged into the keel area.
Main bargeboards have the axe heads neatly integrated into the board.
No electronics socket by the side of the monocoque
Pod wings form part of the sidepod inlet, its all very twisted and integrated in this area.
Roll hoop deeply undercut, with very little structure forward of the rear bulkhead. The coved sections are structural , while the thinner sections at the front are solely for the two hoop. Paddy said all this didn’t add weight
The engine cover spine is really thin the dimensional fins are much bigger than the MP4-22
Cokebottle a little slimmer, not much scope left for any more slimming nowadays
Hmm, mirror supports seem different from last year.
Also, the front part of the monocoque now slants inwards top to bottom, as last year's Williams and Toyota. IIRC, the MP4-22 wasn't like that.
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