+1 granularity (nee marbles) does not convince me that the floor is burning. Also not convinced of little change in enthalpy between exhaust gas exit and suggested acute contact with floor with no loss of temp to cooler surrounding air. Happy to be proved wrong either way.KeiKo403 wrote:Are these not just tyre marbles?
I know they normally fly off backwards but it doesn't make sense that they can burn the floor so close to the exhaust exits.
The car is travelling very fast going forwards, the exhaust gasses are going very fast travelling backwards. Those 2 speeds combined together would be very fast indeed.
My question is, is it possible to go from exiting exhaust gasses pointing 10 degrees upwards to blow practically 90 degrees downwards within 350-450mm.
Make sense??
Just to clear up any confusion, I was on about this tub, not the tub in the dark. The tub in the dark is the 27 surely?Pup wrote:It's a mobile simulator tub that McLaren takes to events, for fans and sponsors to play with...
Unless you guys really think that F1 cars can be split in two for shipping.
It's not the 27, most likely that sim tub judging by the floor and blanked off rear end.RichardF1 wrote:Just to clear up any confusion, I was on about this tub, not the tub in the dark. The tub in the dark is the 27 surely?Pup wrote:It's a mobile simulator tub that McLaren takes to events, for fans and sponsors to play with...
Unless you guys really think that F1 cars can be split in two for shipping.
Mine still do get ignored lol.Pup wrote:Don;'t feel bad - I think my first several posts here were just outright ignored.slimjim wrote:I'll go back to just looking and not posting!
Why not? It's not like the tub is split into two pieces.Pup wrote:Unless you guys really think that F1 cars can be split in two for shipping.
I remember reading that the Lotus guys were amused, but surprised they got a shot. Damnraymondu999 wrote:Autosport tweeted that after that happened, when the car went into the garage, mechanics wheeled out huge partition boards to cover their garage. Lotus were watching intently; and one of their crew even took a photo
raymondu999 wrote:Yes; but you normally see it split a different way - the entire engine cover and side pods is usually shipped as 1 block.
Mclaren will compare the Flo-Viz pattern on the real car with the Flo-viz pattern on the 60% wind tunnel model to see how they match up. All their going to do is photograph the Pattern under black light. My hunch is that they just cover the car to block out the sunlight so they can photograph it in the dark.raymondu999 wrote:Autosport tweeted that after that happened, when the car went into the garage, mechanics wheeled out huge partition boards to cover their garage. Lotus were watching intently; and one of their crew even took a photo