McLaren introduce imaginative front wing
As all teams have brought updates to Barcelona, Ferrari and especially McLaren are catching most sights. The Woking based team have developed a front wing with a "bridged" upper element over the nose cone. While most other teams attach their upper flaps onto the nose cone McLaren may have developed an improvement to that. The new layout obviously has increased potential if air above the nose needs to be conditioned. It also allows changing the angle of attack of it, contrary to the solutions where the elements are rigidly connected to the nose. The new wing also have a completely revised lower plane which is now far more curvy than the rather simple layout McLaren runs for several years now.
An interesting development from Mclaren in that they have finally adopted a \"bi-plane\" front wing. Development on F1 cars is a path dependant process, i.e. current development is contingent upon optimizing the existing car (the aggregate of all past development choices.) Noting the fact that Mclaren is a high budget team and they had yet to incorporate what was becoming a standard aero element, one must ask why this is the case. There must have been some characteristics about their setup made a more traditional \"bi-plane\" design inefficient on the McLaren. As such it makes logical sense that when Mclaren released their \"bi-plane\" front wing it would be drastically different than the others.
Personally I think it is really cool. So what do you guys think silver or red? :?: