Mclaren MP4-30 Honda

[RicME85]

From the pictures released it looks to me like they have retained the cooling chimneys on the top leading edge of the side pods they had last year, only this time that are horizontal instead of vertical and integrated into the top of the barge boards

Thats the standard upper crash structure, the sidepods are smaller in that area so they dont cover the structure, the Williams is the same

[geraldix]

The 360° view on mclaren.com shows a swan neck rear wing mounting

It shows the front wheels brake ducts as well. And they do look interesting!

[turbof1]

I wouldn't read too much in the render; a swan neck pylon for the RW seems reasonable to believe, but if they don't want to show the front brake ducts on the official pictures of the real car, then they surely are not going to show the real brake ducts on a render.

[Vasconia]

Two hours and 8 eight pages, not bad boys. =D>

Well, nothing new to add. The car looks beautiful, its incredible how wel packaged is, specially the rear part which extremelly thin.The chasis seems to be very well designed with nothing too radical, which is good. The team needs a good base to start working on it.

I expect a new nose for the first or second test.

[Th3GoodSon]

The 360° view on mclaren.com shows a swan neck rear wing mounting

It shows the front wheels brake ducts as well. And they do look interesting!

The rear of the car images and the 360 image are really very different; the suspension arms are not the same. I don't think we can draw any conclusions at this stage, as it may be the model is based off an earlier design idea they had - it's certainly not hugely detailed.

[KingHamilton01]

The 360° view on mclaren.com shows a swan neck rear wing mounting

It shows the front wheels brake ducts as well. And they do look interesting!

Just been on there, couldn't find 360 view.....

[charlex]

Coke bottle all rear things RB-10 ctrl+c --> ctrl+v [THUMBS UP SIGN][THUMBS UP SIGN]

[Redragon]

My question is, why on a 3d render you are gonna show the panel on the top of the nose, possibly for s-duct, it is a bit imperfect, they went through all the stragle to draw on 3d the long panel when you can make the nose on one piece and not show that imperfection or what ever is hidden until Sunday.

[PlatinumZealot]

Scarbs doesn't think there is room for the mushroom arms.
https://twitter.com/ScarbsF1/status/560773198590263297

The mushrooms will be back. That is the only reason for having the rear track rods in that "delta" shape in my view.

Anyway. Onto the car. This car is a RedBull in so many ways. The front wing. The coke bottle. The engine cover. The floor. The narrow diffuser. Peter has really influenced the bodywork. Not really a big deal that the car is so much like a RedBull because this is normal. The first RedBulls were Mclaren clones so things have come full circle.

Interesting Items i can see so far. hmm.

No front brake ducts. They must be hiding something.

Floor cut outs. and Narrow diffuser - just like redBull.

No secondary cooling in the Rool Hoop. This honda engine must be cool customer.

Red Bull like "cross over" slots on the underplates.

DRS linkage is integrated into the endplate - This type of DRS had reliability issues a few years ago but it seems Mclaren have sorted it out.

[Fernando]

The 360° view on mclaren.com shows a swan neck rear wing mounting

It shows the front wheels brake ducts as well. And they do look interesting!

Just been on there, couldn't find 360 view.....

On the site go to the F1 part and click on 'car'at the top of the page, there you'll find it!


Why are the mirrors raised by 5cm (I would say) ?

[GoranF1]

The car looks really interesting on that 360 view,,,the sidepod area where we used to had "Coanda ramp" is very intersting,also the front brake ducts are differnet approach to those seen so far.

[PABLOEING]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8hkkPXCEAAJVP7.jpg:large
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[Kiril Varbanov]

Slim sidepods, front wishbone a al Merc. I'm curious to turn up the Shadows slider in Lightroom to +100 to possibly reveal details. Later on...

P.S. I'm not a large fan of that livery, but ... I was hoping for more retro style.

[GoranF1]

..... front wishbone a al Merc....

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???

[lkocev]

What exactly is the upper most element on the rear suspension, behind the upper wishbone?

The lower Whishbone.

Actually I think it would be the toe link. It's joint would be on the crash structure, which would be the same as the 29. I cant quite make out the shape of the lower wishbone, but I would think with the upper wishbone appearing to have joints entirely on the gearbox case, that the lower one might too.