McLaren MP4-29 Mercedes

[cossie]

A couple of things have grabbed my limited attention 1st is the deep undercuts of the side pods, and a further undercut right above the floor, the 2nd is the how curved the barge boards are. Also in the 3d image it appears the be sawed toothed in the bottom part of the nose area
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[scarbs]

And how do these pylons fulfill the single section rule from the regulations?

"3.7.8
Only a single section, which must be open, may be contained within any longitudinal vertical cross section taken parallel to the car centre line forward of a point 150mm ahead of the front wheel centre line, less than 250mm from the car centre line and more than 125mm above the reference plane."

How do they not? What makes up the second cross section?

To be more precise, it's about a single open section.
The FIA says:

"1.20 Open and closed sections :
A section will be considered closed if it is fully complete within the dimensioned boundary to which it is referenced, if it is not it will be considered open."

At the line in red in the picture it could be that the section is closed, but probably i'm wrong and it just looks like that.

http://imageshack.com/a/img845/6108/jv1c.jpg

The nose is missing the legality fin, seen as the teardrop on the side of this CAD image. this is a common trick to join up the two sections to form a single section.

[KingHamilton01]

Looking at sideview seem's McLaren have improved there rake to.

[Javert]

Looking at sideview seem's McLaren have improved there rake to.

Interesting, given exhaust blowing ban

[astracrazy]

And how do these pylons fulfill the single section rule from the regulations?

"3.7.8
Only a single section, which must be open, may be contained within any longitudinal vertical cross section taken parallel to the car centre line forward of a point 150mm ahead of the front wheel centre line, less than 250mm from the car centre line and more than 125mm above the reference plane."

How do they not? What makes up the second cross section?

To be more precise, it's about a single open section.
The FIA says:

"1.20 Open and closed sections :
A section will be considered closed if it is fully complete within the dimensioned boundary to which it is referenced, if it is not it will be considered open."

At the line in red in the picture it could be that the section is closed, but probably i'm wrong and it just looks like that.

http://imageshack.com/a/img845/6108/jv1c.jpg

along that red line is one cross section, i think its just the photo angle

[motobaleno]

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

very small sidepods??? man the cooling mouths are huge!

[Thunder]

The nose is missing the legality fin, seen as the teardrop on the side of this CAD image. this is a common trick to join up the two sections to form a single section.

http://i33.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0124/69/ ... 001c69.jpg

In this Picture i can see the Fin, but not that Teardrop thing.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 4197_o.jpg

Or am i misunderstanding something?

[turbof1]

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

very small sidepods??? man the cooling mouths are huge!

No the sidepods themselves are small:



The sidepods entrances are of course bigger due higher cooling needs, but they sidepods aren't much, if any at all, bulkier. Fantastic job by mclaren to stuff all the radiators and intercooler in those.

Compare it to previous iterations:

[stefan_]

[Thunder]

Super High Res Front Pic
http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/201 ... oto-pr.jpg

The Front wing is different than last year right ? Outer Sections of the Main Planes look split up like the Mercedes.

[turbof1]

Looks like they will be using the suspension arms as a makeshift beamwing.

[Javert]

Super High Res Front Pic
http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/201 ... oto-pr.jpg

The Front wing is different than last year right ? Outer Sections of the Main Planes look split up like the Mercedes.

Yes from a first view, it's a >2 element front wing

[dren]

The side pods look smaller because there is no need for the shape to house the coanda exhaust. The side pods don't look that small or large. Williams and Lotus look similar.

[Owen.C93]

The side pods look smaller because there is no need for the shape to house the coanda exhaust. The side pods don't look that small or large. Williams and Lotus look similar.

Lotus looks much smaller in the render IMO.

[turbof1]

The side pods look smaller because there is no need for the shape to house the coanda exhaust. The side pods don't look that small or large. Williams and Lotus look similar.

It looks more or less the same as the mp4-25.

I think you should take "small" into context. Given the extra needs coming with these cars, the sidepods do look small in width, but of course still bigger then previous year.