http://www.omnicorse.it/magazine/34306/ ... la-mclaren
Red Bull had protested the shutter McLaren
The technicians of the FIA felt perettamente legal solution of the MP4-29
E' già guerra dei nervi e delle carte bollate. C'è chi ritiene che certi musi con la proboscide siano pericolosi per come sono stati interpretati i regolamenti e chi, invece, si preoccupa delle nuove soluzioni tecniche. La sospensione posteriore a "tapparella" della McLaren MP4-29 sta suscitando un grosso interesse fra i tecnici.
La Red Bull Racing, addirittura,
aveva inviato una richiesta di chiarimento regolamentare alla FIA sostenendo che la soluzione potesse non essere in linaea con le norme 2014: i tecnici della Federazione Internazionale, invece, hanno dichiarato perfettamente conforme la geniale soluzione della MP4-29 che, almeno per il momento, sembra dare ottimi ragguagli in pista.
La sospensione a "tapparella" sarà da verificare anche su un'altra pista che non sia Jerez dove non si raggiungono alte velocità massime: l'idea, infatti, è in antitesi con l'esigenza di avere delle macchine molto efficienti, visto che la soluzione di Woking dovrebbe dare molto carico aerodinamico, ma dovrebbe anche costare parecchio in termini di resistenza all'avanzamento.
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1-606153.html
The new McLaren MP4-29 has the designers of the competition concerned. Everyone looked at the photos of the new rear axle. It is now clear: it is absolutely legal. But it is also a trump card, as it appears at first sight?
To make it short: The new McLaren MP4 -29 is legal. The engineers in Woking were just clever. While all the world is still bothered because the new nose rule was reduced to absurdity, McLaren has tricked at the other end of the car.
As the regulations actually looked before the ban on so-called "Beam Wing." This used to be the lower element of the rear wing. He has provided for output, helped the diffuser during suctioning the air and absorbed the flow at the diffuser at the upper rear wing element. A very important part so.
Four wings instead of a "beam wing"
McLaren now has four of these "beam wings" in the rear. You stagger to the right and left of the crash structure underneath the rear wing. This is possible because McLaren misused the rear wishbone rear axle. They are disguised as a wing profile. For three rules apply. The width must not exceed the height of more than 3.5 times. A maximum of 10 inches are allowed. And the profile of the wishbone has to be symmetrical as viewed from the side.
McLaren has met all three requirements. The maximum width is achieved, because the surface extends in a wave shape and is bent back like a Flügelflap upwards. To ensure symmetry, also a rump must go down. From the side it looks like a lying T.
The concept was approved by the rule keepers already last summer.
Significantly more air resistance
At first glance, the troupe technical director Tim Goss has since landed a major coup. The four wing elements give significant output. And the lower level helps the diffuser during suctioning. Nevertheless, the designers of the competition are not one hundred percent convinced.
"The wing is based on quite a lot of air resistance, especially the part that bends downward," says Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey. While this could lead lap time, but increase fuel consumption. Since McLaren would shoot an own goal. , Mercedes team boss Paddy Lowe throws: "McLaren has determined thought something you will have found a way that it works without major disadvantages for them.."
McLaren-wishbone must be heavier
The trick requires an unusual geometry of the rear axle. The rear wishbone does not run at a 90 degree angle to the center line of the car, but spreads far back, so that the control arm extends under the rear wing. He hinged to the rear of the crash structure. The tie rod is located where normally the upper wishbone.
Williams technical director Pat Symonds sees small loss in torsional stiffness and kinematics, which holds but negligible: "The McLaren may have compensated by more mass I suppose that the wishbones are heavier than normal.." The trick is easy to copy? Symonds says yes: "It just is not as perfect as hinbekommen McLaren, because those have designed the whole concept of the car on it."
Please stop this thread. The FIA gave the aproval for the concept already last year. It's legal. The other teams can protest it, it's their business, but they will receive only a clarification to their request. Game over.
