There is no dump valve/tube, and anything that goes through the compressor must exit through the exhaust.
Bit more reading required before you can find a loophole there methinks
The one thing that I can see them doing is having the exhaust exit right underneath the monkey seat. This won't help anywhere near as much as exhaust blown diffuser (EBD) or the various types of coanda exhausts. However it can help to serve two functions. These are:noxroxafox wrote:Reading my eyes out here lol
So, if I'm not mistaken, every exhaust gasses must exit through the rear pipe that ends under the rear wing. No smart tricks to be done here.
Then I'm still wondering about the innovative rear suspension, any suggestions on that one? Because I can not really think about any idea which would be " innovative " lol!
And oh yeah, PS: I maybe a bit of a noob on the forum, I did my reading and research, because I have a quite big ego to be a real noob loll
http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/ ... reshuffle/Reports in Italy indicate that the MP4-28, designed by Matt Morris, is behind schedule due to failing the mandatory FIA crash tests.
This implies that the online presentation scheduled for 24 January will not feature the complete and ready to test MP4-28, but rather a mock-up of the 2014 car. This could fulfill Lotus team principal Eric Boullier’s prediction that his team will not be the only outfit to miss the opening F1 preseason test at Jerez which starts on 28 January.
Do they mean the MP4-29? Or is this old news?SectorOne wrote:http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/ ... reshuffle/Reports in Italy indicate that the MP4-28, designed by Matt Morris, is behind schedule due to failing the mandatory FIA crash tests.
This implies that the online presentation scheduled for 24 January will not feature the complete and ready to test MP4-28, but rather a mock-up of the 2014 car. This could fulfill Lotus team principal Eric Boullier’s prediction that his team will not be the only outfit to miss the opening F1 preseason test at Jerez which starts on 28 January.
Its not old news. Dont know why they incist on calling it the MP4-28. Its not just a typo its called the 28 through the whole article.bonjon1979 wrote:
Do they mean the MP4-29? Or is this old news?
I think they made a mistake writting car's name. News was written today.bonjon1979 wrote:Do they mean the MP4-29? Or is this old news?SectorOne wrote:http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/ ... reshuffle/Reports in Italy indicate that the MP4-28, designed by Matt Morris, is behind schedule due to failing the mandatory FIA crash tests.
This implies that the online presentation scheduled for 24 January will not feature the complete and ready to test MP4-28, but rather a mock-up of the 2014 car. This could fulfill Lotus team principal Eric Boullier’s prediction that his team will not be the only outfit to miss the opening F1 preseason test at Jerez which starts on 28 January.
Maybe they have a weight issue, if they strengthen the chassis it would mean extra kilo's. Maybe they have already hit the 690KG minimum weight limit. Weight was never a problem in the V8 era but the new power-units are heavier. Or it could just be a design flaw that has nothing to do with weight but solely the strength of their chassis. Anyhow not good news for McLaren.Holm86 wrote:Anyways its sad news. I wonder if they need to redesign or just change the strength of some materials.
Even for the best teams, you're talking 12 weeks from pressing the button on a chassis build to having a completed chassis.The first test is in early February, you want to be building the car up during January. So you have to be starting to build your chassis and gearbox in the middle of September.
So you're working forwards and backwards at the same time - backwards from the first test and forwards from the initial proposals for the car.
Once a team has built a new chassis, the team have to do all the crash tests before they can go testing.
Until I read this ''bad'' news on Mp4-29 falling the crash test on Autosport, ESPN F1, BCC Sports, SkyF1 or other more relevant sites I'm not buying it.....Timstr wrote:Gptoday stole the news from omnicorse actually.