I believe one of the biggest contributions to Mclaren’s lack of porpoising is underfloor profile. All the teams have double kick diffuser, but the first kick-up of MCL36 solution has very conservative angle (seen above). So it provides sufficient suction, but doesn’t produce severe adverse pressure gradients getting closer to the ground. Of course, other bits on the floor edge are fine tuning devices
The calculations about the brakes were probably all ok but i think that they were cought out by the increase of the pace of the car. The cars are aparently faster than everyone have thought.
I am guessing this is a way over spec part such that they dont even risk dnf'ing and can do race sims properly, I suspect we will get a more robust version of the testing spec parts later in the season.
yep I agree, sucks though quite a hinderance, development and time that could of been used elsewhere.
Totally agree that's a hastily engineered solution and I wonder if they will try a couple and then optimise from there.
Interesting thoughts, I think it's also the way they are using a bit of rake and vortex generation at the side pod and floor edge to seal the floor.kyky-pyky wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 08:32I believe one of the biggest contributions to Mclaren’s lack of porpoising is underfloor profile. All the teams have double kick diffuser, but the first kick-up of MCL36 solution has very conservative angle (seen above). So it provides sufficient suction, but doesn’t produce severe adverse pressure gradients getting closer to the ground. Of course, other bits on the floor edge are fine tuning devices