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Team: Paddy Lowe (TD), Tim Goss (DE), Martin Whitmarsh (TP)
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (3), Jenson Button (4)
yeah, the two on the left are from pre-barcelona, then youve got the current front wing on the bottom right and the one at the top with a lot more surface area and greater AoA.raymondu999 wrote:the left ones are identical; the right ones it seems are identical save for AoA change. But the cascade as well as the inner trailing edge are different.
Early on they were running the smaller flap rear wing (giving them really good top speed and making them fast in sector 1 and 3 but about half a second or more off the pace in sector 2) before they both changed to the higher downforce rear wing.boyracer94 wrote:McLaren say that they're testing new aero parts, a new exhaust and test components for Spa today.
Was their overall lap time quicker with the short chord DRS or the old stlye DRS? The short chord version will give them a nice advantage when it comes to overtaking if they end up behind the red bulls or ferraris after qualifying.myurr wrote:Early on they were running the smaller flap rear wing (giving them really good top speed and making them fast in sector 1 and 3 but about half a second or more off the pace in sector 2) before they both changed to the higher downforce rear wing.boyracer94 wrote:McLaren say that they're testing new aero parts, a new exhaust and test components for Spa today.
The Radio 5 live guys commented on the car visibly running more rake as well. So maybe that was half of Red Bulls secret after all. The McLaren's definitely looked stronger here than I expected, and Lewis really seemed to have the bit between his teeth.
I don't think they are – I think what you're seeing is that the inner edge curves in towards the driver on all the wings, and that with a low AoA or seen from the side where it's curving away from you, you simply don't see the point.raymondu999 wrote:the left ones are identical; the right ones it seems are identical save for AoA change. But the cascade as well as the inner trailing edge are different.
It was actually the old wing that was faster even with DRS use. This is a downforce circuit. Notably the McLarens recorded top speeds in FP2 were a lot slower than FP1, but their lap times were better.raymondu999 wrote:I think probably on a free-use DRS lap, such as fp/qually, the new wing will be faster; while on a race pace simulation (no DRS use) it will probably be the old one faster.
To be fair – it would be hard for them to be worse on a now dry track.myurr wrote:It was actually the old wing that was faster even with DRS use. This is a downforce circuit. Notably the McLarens recorded top speeds in FP2 were a lot slower than FP1, but their lap times were better.raymondu999 wrote:I think probably on a free-use DRS lap, such as fp/qually, the new wing will be faster; while on a race pace simulation (no DRS use) it will probably be the old one faster.