McLaren MP4-31 Honda

[GoranF1]

Mclaren has new rear and front wings.

[ollandos]

speed trap

http://prntscr.com/ams3da

2st best car on sector 1 and 2 ,3st best car sector 3

looks good

[Thunder]

Some Pics by AMuS:

This Time even with the new FW. Sadly no good Pictures of the RW to see there is really something new.

[Morteza]

Bite-size tech: McLaren MP4-31 front wing

[mclaren111]

albrodpulf1:







Diffuser:

[mclaren111]

McLaren has also released rear wings on top.

[McMrocks]

I think some of you are seeing things that aren't there.

[Thunder]

The Red FlowViz returned.





And some Beauty Shots:





Also on this Picture posted by Morteza the old Front wing actually had a fifth Flow conditionder further Inside:

[Sasha]

Aero upgrades are working!!!

Jenson has a neutral car finally.

[mclaren111]

Look at the Rake on this car =D>

[damager21]

EB during testing mentioned that there is a strong correlation between on track performance and wind tunnel. Also, we know that McLaren has one of the best simulator in paddock. So it is not surprising to see McLaren do so well on Friday. They can setup the car pretty quickly and get good lap times compared to other mid field teams. But once other teams start going through their data, they seem to catch up and beat us on Saturday.

We saw this in Australia where in FP1 and FP2, both McLaren's were in the top 10. Come Saturday, in FP3 they were 11th and 12th and in Qualifying we ended up 12th and 13th.

While the pace is definitely encouraging, we can move backwards today. Though, I hope not.

[DiogoBrand]

Two different brake covers? Tell me what I'm missing here.

As for all that rake, I wonder if it's a feat of aerodynamic brilliance or just another case of "McLaren's strong but unstable downforce".

[f1rules]

interesting you can see they are running with different rake, button trying out more angle, leaving the mainplane closer to the ground

[f1rules]

obviously there is more to it then what meets the eye, still mclaren using less rearwing for sure, if its because the diffuser and rear aero is extremely efficient, if its because they cant balance out the extra rear df or if its to help the honda pu a bit until they catch up is everyones quess, probably they think this is the best compromise. In testing mclaren used a similar high df rearwing where the front of the main plane was lowered allowing more air to reach

[McMrocks]

interesting you can see they are running with different rake, button trying out more angle, leaving the mainplane closer to the ground
http://images.adrivo.com/images/950/q_8 ... 740460.jpg
http://images.adrivo.com/images/950/q_8 ... 740461.jpg

I'm surprised what difference that little bit rake has on the front wing height. Button's fw seems very close to the grouund