Vodafone McLaren MP4-27 Mercedes

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Well that is evidence if I've ever seen it, at least for the confirmation of the existence of a hole, for those with zoom capabilities if you zoom in on the picture of Jenson just at the point where the r cascade meets the bottom of the wing there is 100% an intake.

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gray41
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http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de/Lew ... 574988.jpg

What are the curved u shaped things underneath the car?

some kind of outlet feeding the diffuser?
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allstaruk08
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i think they're just the sides of the lower section where the plank is, reflecting light from the outside of the floor

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It's just where the plank merges to the floor, where the starter hole is.

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allstaruk08 wrote:looks like the same wing to me, or am i being blind?
JackHammer wrote:Only difference I can see is the flo-viz paint
OK, so nobody knows what it is, whether it's real, an illusion, a stone-chip in the flo-viz, or something intended for an entirely different purpose ... but that aside, that wing looks different.

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feynman wrote:
allstaruk08 wrote:looks like the same wing to me, or am i being blind?
JackHammer wrote:Only difference I can see is the flo-viz paint
OK, so nobody knows what it is, whether it's real, an illusion, a stone-chip in the flo-viz, or something intended for an entirely different purpose ... but that aside, that wing looks different.

[img]http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii14 ... fw.jpg[img]
just looks like an area the flow viz has avoided
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its only on one side of the wing

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gray41 wrote:
what is it?
Crime Scene Investigation. Someone shot their car, they suspect Massa.

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My guess is that it's a new low-profile B-spec chassis.

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WRT The "hole" in the front wing...

Is the "hole" in a place you'd expect it to be if it was blowing the front wing?

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This has been addressed earlier in the thread.
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bhallg2k wrote:This has been addressed earlier in the thread. They're very likely blowing the front wing.

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bhallg2k wrote:This has been addressed earlier in the thread. They're very likely blowing the front wing.

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Was there any need to repost it then?
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