2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[BMMR61]

The livery launched now because it leaked I think

Therefore it's quite possible the Feb date was originally intended just to be the livery launch.. so I wouldn't get your hopes up we see the car before testing

Any reason why you think the livery was leaked?

Don't want to get anyone in trouble but I can confirm it was leaked ahead of time

Hey, any "launch" these days is mostly trotting out eye candy. Don't expect to see anything of technical interest until testing when it's too late for the copiers.

[BassVirolla]

A very black "livery" (bare carbon fiber) is whatever it takes to save weight (increasing ballast capacity).

Where is my award?

I think I beat you to it??

Interesting mention of a "new look"... Not sure if that means only racesuits or the livery as well. All black car with neon orange and blue highlights (like the show in the picture) anyone?

Touché.

[Tomsky]

I like it.
Need to see some of the black replaced with white then for me it’ll be

I agree.

[Szabi1112]

I like it.
Need to see some of the black replaced with white then for me it’ll be

I agree.

Agree too. Lots of black. It fully reminds me of Arrow. I dont really like it

[organic]

It's striking and will look great on track. The frontal all-orange view is great - reminds me of the 2019/20 renaults. Orange looks brighter and no blue is big improvement. Much cleaner than messiness of last year. Would've liked to see more orange but clearly a weight issue

[bauc]

I love the ''new'' color scheme, and I like the fact that they will not show the actual car until preseason test. This gives me hopes that they have something in their sleeves.

The launch is a week before preseason test?

I cant find such info, if you have a link please share.

Thanks!

[_cerber1]

I love the ''new'' color scheme, and I like the fact that they will not show the actual car until preseason test. This gives me hopes that they have something in their sleeves.

The launch is a week before preseason test?

I cant find such info, if you have a link please share.

Thanks!

McLaren’s 2024 challenger, the MCL38, will be revealed on 14 February before heading to pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit on 21-23 February ahead of the opening race of the season at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix on 2 March.

https://www.mclaren.com/racing/formula- ... mpionship/

[_cerber1]

As I understand it, there will be a shooting day in Silverstone on the 14th

[bauc]

As I understand it, there will be a shooting day in Silverstone on the 14th

Thanks, this is still what I expected, to see the actual car for the first time on track

[De Wet]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e8--Q5N2JLQ


Short video - new livery shots...

[billamend]

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... kSISj.html

I’m feeling confident. I think all the men and women at McLaren have done a fantastic job in the off-season.

Of course, there will be a continued development [with the car], so we’re not done, we’re just done with our launch spec car – expect continued improvement over the course of the year.

Clearly, we want to continue to close the gap [to the front]. I think we finished up last year as the second or third-quickest team, [depending on] which circuit you were at.

[But] Red Bull certainly seem like they didn’t develop last year to the level they could [have done] if they wanted to, so that could be an unpleasant surprise for all of us!

So far, I have to say we don’t see the diminishing returns. This obviously will have to be proven once we put the car on the ground.

When it comes to the wind tunnel development, the CFD development, we see that the gradient we established last year that led to the Austria development and then the Singapore development, it seems like we can maintain it.

That’s also where I would expect the launch car to be, at the start of the season, and we are already starting to work on the further developments that we hope to bring relatively soon in-season – and they also seem to be quite interesting.

I would say in terms of the regulations themselves, and in terms of the development we are having specifically at McLaren, we are seeing that the kind of linear gradient of development can be maintained.

[_cerber1]

[mwillems]

As I understand it, there will be a shooting day in Silverstone on the 14th

Thanks, this is still what I expected, to see the actual car for the first time on track

I expect the car that arrives at testing to be pretty developed too and not just a pared back version.

[SmallSoldier]

It will depend on what changes are made to the car and if they need to validate new developments first… Depending the architectural changes to the chasis, they may decide to test with the 2023 aero package (if it can be used with the new chassis) to validate the mechanical improvements before they use the new aero package on the car.

From an aero perspective, they may also introduce parts during testing in an step process to validate parts individually.

[OnEcRiTiCaL]

It will depend on what changes are made to the car and if they need to validate new developments first… Depending the architectural changes to the chasis, they may decide to test with the 2023 aero package (if it can be used with the new chassis) to validate the mechanical improvements before they use the new aero package on the car.

From an aero perspective, they may also introduce parts during testing in an step process to validate parts individually.

They gonna have a car test after car lunch ,so why they would run the old package? At winter test so less time,that there are no time for old parts .