ringo wrote:Height is better than width too, aerodynamically. This is why the Air intakes are taller than they are wide.
The wing downforce is a function of width.
Perhaps McLaren are intending to achieve a benefit from this very fact?
If they are (or mean to) feeding hot air out from that massive vent, especially so in the two seperated sections on either side of the large hole in the middle, perhaps they deliberately spread this out sideways to throw this hot air at the beamwing (or under the main-plane).
Another possibility is that they have opted to reduce the distance the air has to travel having flowed past the radiators (to route it higher would increase the distance travelled from sidepod intake to outlet).
Alternatively, there might be packaging considerations what with the "stall mode" outlet from the top inlet from the F-Duct meaning that they somehow couldn't or didn't want to route that air upwards.
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