CjC wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 20:08
SilviuAgo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 17:55
So well pointed. A clever development made by McLaren, like RB, Mercedes or Ferrari did in the past. This is Formula 1 and should remain the pinnacle of motorsport together with his inventions (DAS, double diffuser, flexi wings, using oil for engine power, increasing fuel pressure, F-duct etc etc).
As Oscar said, where McLaren is now is not due a silver bullet. They invested more than 5 years, since Zak arrived at a team finishing P9 in constructor championship during second Honda period.
And a picture that makes me smile
I didn’t know Oscar said that, so they aren’t too concerned about it then.
This in particular will be a tough pill to swallow for the social media kids:
‘McLaren’s Rob Marshall made it clear that it worked with the FIA to establish the legality of its rear wing – and that includes access to designs. That, combined with passing the load tests means that the wing therefore was indeed absolutely legal until it wasn’t.’
Also would seem to me that as soon as the drawing left the design office to go into manufacturing the wing was effectively obsolete, they’ll have another wing development in the works already.
Some details here :
https://racingnews365.com/piastri-dismi ... ing-theory
And I consider interesting also what this article points, and what also Oscar mentioned in his interview, that was not fully aware about a competitive advantage in this RW low downforce geometry:
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mark ... struggles/
"The regulations stipulate that the minimum slot gap is 10mm with the DRS closed and a maximum of 85mm when the DRS is open.
Let's say that the drag from minimum to maximum slot gap opening, which is 75mm x 490mm each side (giving a total opening of 73,500sq/mm), equates to 15mph or 24km/h speed advantage increase.
The extra opening we see on the McLaren due to deflection I would estimate at 10mm deep at the outer end tapering to nothing going inward for roughly 200mm.
That equates to an open area of 1000sq/mm each side, which equates to a total opening of 2000sq/mm when the DRS is closed. That's roughly 2.7% of the potential of the DRS opening, so equates to a speed advantage of possibly 0.4mph or 0.65km/h.
Balancing out the risk versus reward, this hardly seems worth it.
Other teams might need to be careful of what they complain to the FIA about, because it might just mean that it has highlighted to McLaren something it might not have actually known about itself."
