djos wrote:Grow up yourself, if the fairings provide the level of Aero benefit you and others believe, then why has no other team bothered running their own versions of the McLaren fairings despite this concept being around for more than 12 months?Conceptual wrote: Logical arguments when you have zero basis in reality, and are by definition bigotry. Instead of getting all pissy, how about you increase your vocabulary, take a more modest tone, and not make factual statements unless you have something other than your personal speculation to base it upon. Don't serve your hypothesis as fact. It shows ignorance, and bigotry.
I'm sorry if you didn't know, but it is time to grow up, and back up your statements with fact, not fantasy.
I'll tell you why, they are only good for testing purposes as a sensor package; im sure all the other teams have looked at them and rejected them as being too heavy (unsprung weight again) and not enough of an improvement over the more conventional wheel covers to be worth the weight and track width penalties.
Not all the cars follow the same aerodynamic concepts with McLaren often taking a slightly different path to the majority of other teams. Look at the shark fin last year - McLaren made one, tested it, but it provided no benefit to their car. Did that mean all the other teams were wrong to run with them?
As for unsprung weight and blah de blah, lets say that having the fairings costs 0.1s per lap in terms of smaller track width, unsprung weight, etc. but gives 0.2s per lap benefit aerodynamically. Wouldn't that be worth it?
McLaren have gone to a lot of effort to mould the inner fairings into the brake duct, so they are definitely going to stay. If the outer fairings are legal and McLaren have reduced the track width by a few mm to accommodate them, then they're definitely staying as well. Simple as.
