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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
I made this point earlier in the thread. Unless they've spent the whole season to date in the wind tunnel redesigning the entire car, I'd be amazed if they could just bolt it on and gain performance.bhallg2k wrote:How much can McLaren really gain from the added height of a stepped nose? And would that change be worth the fundamental shift in the car's dynamics that will result from the addition of a stepped nose?
They'll essentially be starting over with the MP4-27.
Have you ever nailed it?n smikle wrote:It seems Some of them will be delayed till Germany due to manufacturing schedules. The big stuff which I heard will be for Silverstone are put off until Germany so there you go, I can't nail it all the time.
Did he mention the benefits?Crucial_Xtreme wrote:McLaren has brought the adjustable brake duct setup to the front bakes in Silverstone. via Ted Kravitz.
Remembering that the car is still turning as it enters the pit boxbill shoe wrote:I think PhilipM has the right idea.
The lateral center of the car, particularly the T-tray front, drags near the ground with little or no clearance. However, by rule the sidepods are at least 50 mm above the ground. This creates lateral space on both sides of the car between the low center section and the tire tracks. This space extends the full length of the car.
Commercial car lifts are available with profiles as low as 100 mm. Surely F1 can do 50 mm or less. It simply has to be split into two parts to clear the center section.
Yes, that nose does seem to have a step transition.Viscount wrote:Hey, long time lurker here finally decided to join the site. Anyway, came across this pic and it looks like McLaren may be testing a stepped nose at Silverstone.
Wouldn't matter if you used a hydraulic pillow...beelsebob wrote: Remembering that the car is still turning as it enters the pit box
What I would say is that surely having someone raise the car from the side would be more practical than raising it from the front. For a starter, you wouldn't have to wait for the trolley jack man to lower the car and run out of the way and would also do a-way with the worries of running over the trolley jack man.PhillipM wrote:Wouldn't matter if you used a hydraulic pillow...beelsebob wrote: Remembering that the car is still turning as it enters the pit box
Isn't there less thread on the wheelnut than before? Or has it been like this in previous races as well?Owen.C93 wrote:Something is spring loaded on the brake cooling.
Don;t they already use pneumatic jacks built into the cars in the Indycar series ? and all they do when they pit is connect an air supply to a port on the car & hey presto ! it's up in the air !jason.parker.86 wrote:What I would say is that surely having someone raise the car from the side would be more practical than raising it from the front. For a starter, you wouldn't have to wait for the trolley jack man to lower the car and run out of the way and would also do a-way with the worries of running over the trolley jack man.PhillipM wrote:Wouldn't matter if you used a hydraulic pillow...beelsebob wrote: Remembering that the car is still turning as it enters the pit box
I would still keep the trolley on standby in case he overrun the pitbox (or jack) but seriously can't see why no one has thought about it.
Another crazy solution would be a jack built in the car (ok maybe im being silly now) but having a very light bottle jack fwd and aft of the car and then using the onboard hydraulics to up and lower itself.
