McLaren MCL36

[Tombola37]

Lots of the car being covered in basic carbon panels in my opinion. Could be wrong but there are odd angles/notches/bumps all over it. Expecting a very different car come second test and race.

[Emag]

Brightened to pull out some details. Couldn't get much out of it, but I think there is a winglet on top of the "bargeboard".

[_cerber1]

[f1rules]

interesting layout to help create outwash, see how much the upper element twist, and how the three upper elements closer to the endplate almost merge

[godlameroso]

McLaren has switched what I dub the Albatross front wing. Ferrari, Haas, McLaren, Alfa, all have similar front wings.

[godlameroso]

interesting layout to help create outwash, see how much the upper element twist, and how the three upper elements closer to the endplate almost merge

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMJNRmrX0AU ... ame=medium

Birds twist their wing because it improves laminar flow, turbofan engines made a big step in performance when they started using 3d twisted aerofoils, if it's good enough for G.E. it's good enough for F1

[godlameroso]

Mclaren's venturi inlet seems to go straight across.

[KingHamilton01]

Lots of the car being covered in basic carbon panels in my opinion. Could be wrong but there are odd angles/notches/bumps all over it. Expecting a very different car come second test and race.

I agree with you on this, I think the fact they said they would be ready to adapt the car and keeping everything at launch very basic and minamum amount of parts made. They also mentioned that an update package is being made for the first race. Be interested to see if they manage to get any updates here for first test and if they can adapt major elements of the car for the second test that they want to see improvement in.

but they could turn up at start of test with some new part's that are different from what we have seen so far. Excited to see which route the development war goes down. I think most obvious places for development will be front wing, Venturi tunnel's, rear wing and diffuser.

[Marc.W]

[SmallSoldier]

New winglet behind the entrance to the Tunnels

[Marc.W]

New winglet behind the entrance to the Tunnels

https://i.imgur.com/3TxNWrx.jpg

Can see it a little better here

Is that a camera on the floor or something permanent?

https://i.imgur.com/jsN4zNe.png

The little bulge on the nose cone makes me think it's a camera of some sort

[SmallSoldier]

New winglet behind the entrance to the Tunnels

https://i.imgur.com/3TxNWrx.jpg

Can see it a little better here

Is that a camera on the floor or something permanent?

https://i.imgur.com/jsN4zNe.png

The little bulge on the nose cone makes me think it's a camera of some sort

Could very well be… Seems an odd location to have a winglet and it been allowed

[Owen.C93]

Maybe it's part of the rule that says you can have up to 4 strakes per side? Need to have another read...

[Tombola37]

interesting layout to help create outwash, see how much the upper element twist, and how the three upper elements closer to the endplate almost merge

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMJNRmrX0AU ... ame=medium

Looking at this image of the side pods there is a very defined angle where the vertical straight edge meets the shoulder of the side pod. Doesn’t seem right to me. Could we expect an undercut to come in as of Wednesday? This could be just a filled out basic panel fitted to disguise the true shape

[Xero]

Looking at this image of the side pods there is a very defined angle where the vertical straight edge meets the shoulder of the side pod. Doesn’t seem right to me. Could we expect an undercut to come in as of Wednesday? This could be just a filled out basic panel fitted to disguise the true shape

It's effectively there to replace the outwash effect of the old bargeboards. By using that space to package some cooling, it gives the car a strong downwash over the sidepod and into a very spacious rear floor area. None of these cars seem right, because it's a new formula, but this approach makes sense to me.