McLaren MP4-29 Mercedes

[bill shoe]

http://www.omnicorse.it/img/articoli/ev ... rcedes.jpg

What's that on the front-top-center of the engine? The oil tank curves around it. Is it the compressor portion of the turbo? Or one of the electric MGU's? Looks most like a turbo compressor but I don't see where air would exit. More pondering necessary.

EDIT: The thing on the front of the engine may just be the air intake for the turbo compressor which is further aft. The spiral looking thing may be a water passage or something that wraps around the air opening rather than being the spiral compressor housing.

[Pup]

Curved cascades underneath and I can't make out front wing completely, bit blurry!

Hipster journalists and their damnable Instagram!

[f1rules]

looks like the frontwing pillar + bargeboard arrangement has been changed

[stefan_]

2014 Australian Grand Prix - Friday, 14.03.2014

[Kiril Varbanov]

http://www.omnicorse.it/img/articoli/ev ... rcedes.jpg

Wow, what a packaging. Well, that might explain certain achievements.

[Avocado]

[emmepi27]

They have new turning vanes under the chassis: (ph Amus)


Comparision: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BirjDJ4CYAApPHX.jpg:large

[Rikhart]

STILL no decent shots of the butterfly suspension?! Unbelievable.

[stefan_]

2014 Australian Grand Prix - Friday, 14.03.2014

[Jef Patat]

STILL no decent shots of the butterfly suspension?! Unbelievable.

What do you wish to see? The profile? That's near impossible to picture. The wheel and the rear wing endplate are in the way. The photographer would need te be in the garage to be able to take a profile shot easilly.

[Sevach]

[thedutchguy]

http://www.omnicorse.it/img/articoli/ev ... rcedes.jpg

What's that on the front-top-center of the engine? The oil tank curves around it. Is it the compressor portion of the turbo? Or one of the electric MGU's? Looks most like a turbo compressor but I don't see where air would exit. More pondering necessary.

EDIT: The thing on the front of the engine may just be the air intake for the turbo compressor which is further aft. The spiral looking thing may be a water passage or something that wraps around the air opening rather than being the spiral compressor housing.

According to Scarbs, Mercedes run a split-turbo, with the exhaust compressor at the back, but the intake compressor at the front of the engine. So the spiral would probably be the intake compressor.

https://twitter.com/ScarbsF1/status/444389225333788672

[turbof1]

Some small, but significant changes compared to testing. Small winglet attached to the cascade is gone, and they added a small upwash vane to the inside of the rear of the endplate. The outer endplate of the cascade also seems to be extended upwards.

[SidSidney]

http://images.adrivo.com/images/950/q_8 ... 564269.jpg

Wow. Just lose that silly extended nose that is a truly gorgeous racing car.

[Jef Patat]

Indeed, attached test FW for easier comparisson:

Some small, but significant changes compared to testing. Small winglet attached to the cascade is gone, and they added a small upwash vane to the inside of the rear of the endplate. The outer endplate of the cascade also seems to be extended upwards.