McLaren MP4-29 Mercedes

[Avocado]

Very small sidepods, complex frong wing, interesting nose ... Bravo, McLaren! =D> I hope it's extremely fast!

[PhillipM]

That rear wing mounting looks interesting....


edit, this review post feature is ---, it's taken me 5 minutes to post this damned reply.

[acosmichippo]

I was getting tired of the chrome, but this livery looks sleek. Way better than with all of the rocket red stripes all over the place. Although I think a couple huge mclaren logos on the sidepods would have looked great too.

[scarlet]

I'm more interested in how the rear wing is mounted in this photo:

[Rushman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQyYbo3i7U[/youtube]

[timbo]

Interesting treatment of the rear-end. It looks like the car has channels which go where the beam wing used to be. I guess these are cooling exits.

[Gridlock]

[Gridlock]

The "beam wing" is the rear suspension member. The 3D model gives it away.

[bidong]

And what are those boxes/ covers on the rear suspension?

looks like winglets shooting out from the brakes. not sure. need to see the backside packaging and undercut details... damn, mclaren made the nose... ACCEPTABLE. i have always thought that mclaren made the prettiest cars and after williams and FI, this is looking great

[f1316]

Drivers are gonna lose that little bit of nose on a regular basis in races i think.
It doesn´t help that it has a slit in it as well

I will say this though, 2014 liveries seems to be a "fabulous" looking year

The worrying things about that is that the teams probably wouldn't mind if the tip was removed, removing that blockage. You'd hope that anyone running like that would be black and white flagged in order to completely remove the possibility of doing it on purpose.

Close up grab of the rear from the 360 render:

[DAMNINice]

Hi Folks...

I´ve lightened up the rear (I know you are more thrilled about the nose but nevertheless)





whats visible (in this rendering)

- exhaust surrounding wing mount
- no monkey seat
- no williams style mini Beamwing
- super wide suspension with integrated driveshaft

what else can you see?




link: https://twitter.com/DAMNINice/status/42 ... 25/photo/1

[Coefficient]

Basking Shark!

I like Basking Sharks!!

[Trocola]

To me, sidepod inlets look huge

[i70q7m7ghw]

Guessing where it has "MP4-29" is where the driver number is going to be applied. Hopefully they put it in a different colour. Grey on Chrome is not going to be very easy to read.

[boyracer94]

Close-up of sidepod intakes and vortex generators/flow conditioners: