McLaren MCL39

[mwillems]

RB20 turned to 11.

https://i.postimg.cc/X7KzfdrP/gettyimag ... 2-copy.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/fW9Fb6DD/gettyimag ... 3-copy.jpg

There was a time not long ago that our little papaya car looked under developed. Just look at that suspension setup, it's like sculpture.

[ringo]

A simple curiosity of the 39 is also where the water slide starts on the side pod. It starts very much behind the cockpit compared to Ferrari and other teams. Some cars have none, like the Mercedes, others have it, but it starts closer to the front.
The brakes and suspension and flex wing would have you believe there is no devil in the details of the body.

[Andi76]

McLaren used again a big tank, nearly 3-4
liters capacity filled with dry ice to be able
cool the cockpit for prologued time. In fact
the way MCL39 runs wears the skid block
further forward than most of the cars, right
under the cockpit area, increasing the heath
under the driver.

[M840TR]

A simple curiosity of the 39 is also where the water slide starts on the side pod. It starts very much behind the cockpit compared to Ferrari and other teams. Some cars have none, like the Mercedes, others have it, but it starts closer to the front.
The brakes and suspension and flex wing would have you believe there is no devil in the details of the body.

They introduced that design in Miami 24 to reduce drag.

[Farnborough]

https://postimg.cc/06vgwg1P

McLaren used again a big tank, nearly 3-4
liters capacity filled with dry ice to be able
cool the cockpit for prologued time. In fact
the way MCL39 runs wears the skid block
further forward than most of the cars, right
under the cockpit area, increasing the heath
under the driver.

And soooo ...... 3 to 4 litres of dry ice capacity, unidentified "silicone" hose within rear brake assembly !

2+2=5 I'm surprised there's not any conspiracy theory floating around, anywhere.

I don't believe it's a system, but nobody talking about it at least just seems odd.

[Delasoup]

https://postimg.cc/06vgwg1P

McLaren used again a big tank, nearly 3-4
liters capacity filled with dry ice to be able
cool the cockpit for prologued time. In fact
the way MCL39 runs wears the skid block
further forward than most of the cars, right
under the cockpit area, increasing the heath
under the driver.

This is a BIG volume and weight penalty for driver comfort or for cooling electronics around the cockpit. I was interested in long wave IR radiative cooling and found this article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 7241230595

I then proceeded and superimposed these two pictures:


The tank in front of the cockpit could be used as energy storage, capillaries are located in the radiators area and some fiber optics designed to funnel IR radiations connecting to the brake assembly.

There. Mystery solved

[ringo]

McLaren understand the tyres better than the other teams. They take more than just 1 lap to bring the tyres up to working temperature. I noticed this listening to Piastri and Lando's radio.
The car is probably very much biased to qualifying at the front, then managing the pace from there to bring in the tyres carefully, as counter intuitive as that sounds giving MCL39's strong tyre management and race pace.

[mwillems]

McLaren understand the tyres better than the other teams. They take more than just 1 lap to bring the tyres up to working temperature. I noticed this listening to Piastri and Lando's radio.
The car is probably very much biased to qualifying at the front, then managing the pace from there to bring in the tyres carefully, as counter intuitive as that sounds giving MCL39's strong tyre management and race pace.

It's what Merc did, built a car that wasn't great in dirty air, and was designed to get in front and stay in front.

Worth mentioning too that the Mclaren did 2 fast laps on the same times in Q3 recently, setting the fastest times on the second having done a cooldown lap in the middle. Quite astounding.