McLaren MP4-28 Mercedes

[f1rules]

sam michael said in an interview today that the new parts will arrive on the last two days of the last test, like last year i quess.

[boyracer94]

What purpose do the Red Bull/Ferrari style strakes to the top of the diffuser serve? Are they just to tidy up the airflow and do you think McLaren will add some at some point?

[chumma]

sam michael said in an interview today that the new parts will arrive on the last two days of the last test, like last year i quess.

I wouldn't leave it that late, I'd feel a lot more assured if they were on the car for the entire last test not just 2 days, that isn't much evaluation time. I wonder what we'll see.

[f1rules]

I'm sure all the mechanical parts will stay, only aero will be updated, just like they did last year. Right now it seems to me both the rb and ferrari aero packages looks more refined but I'm sure that will be solved with the last update. Im sure we will see lots of flow conditioners, forexamble on the front side pods, maybe a new floor and diffuser, stuff like that.

[wesley123]

sam michael said in an interview today that the new parts will arrive on the last two days of the last test, like last year i quess.

I wouldn't leave it that late, I'd feel a lot more assured if they were on the car for the entire last test not just 2 days, that isn't much evaluation time. I wonder what we'll see.

Teams evaluate updates in Free Practice sessions in a race weekend, 2 test days give much, much more time than the regular FP sessions.

When your simulator is correctly correlated to the track you are running on you can do most of the evaluation there already, and then on track take a look at it. i.e did the part behave as expected by the simulator

[Gridlock]

Is that an air pressure sensor, that stolen-from-a-Dyson black tube running across the top of the diffuser?

Isn't that the Gurney flap?

Yup, I thought I saw a tube poking out between the diffuser and the left tyre but looking again its just a weird shape in the photo

[stefan_]

Jerez - Day 4 (08.02.2013)

[stefan_]

High resolution
Exhaust:
http://www.formule1.nl/media/uploads/me ... 910.09.jpg

[zonk]

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go to talk about it somewhere else, this is a car thread

[Richard]

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[aral]

That front wing is doing funny things. In first photo, it is scraping the ground. And in the second photo, it is miles off the ground.

[zonk]

in first tire is punctured.

[Rikhart]

What´s that blue smoke coming from the diffuser, and why from the MIDDLE of the diffuser? Interesting picture!

[GrizzleBoy]

Its tyre smoke from a lock up most probably.

[avatar]

What´s that blue smoke coming from the diffuser, and why from the MIDDLE of the diffuser? Interesting picture!

My guess: blue smoke from the t-tray/plank scraping due to the whacking great hole in the front left tyre!