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[mwillems]

Andrea Stella: McLaren’s biggest gains will come from “exploiting” the new power unit

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/andr ... /10795809/

[MTudor]

Given the fact that the electrical side of the PU is like 45% and it would count more the deployment and recharging of the battery,the trick with the pistons I think it's just a smoke screen!

[Avocado]

I still don't understand how they're going to be able to charge the battery fast enough to run the car at full power during a race. 45% is HUGE and if you don't have enough battery power, you're going to be nowhere.

[WardenOfTheNorth]

I still don't understand how they're going to be able to charge the battery fast enough to run the car at full power during a race. 45% is HUGE and if you don't have enough battery power, you're going to be nowhere.

Are they able to charge using the ICE when not at full throttle?

[venkyhere]

Given the fact that the electrical side of the PU is like 45% and it would count more the deployment and recharging of the battery,the trick with the pistons I think it's just a smoke screen!

You do understand that the 'energy' for a race has to completely come from ICE itself, right ?
(very different from a Q lap, where the battery charge can be fully drained in one lap)

[FittingMechanics]

I still don't understand how they're going to be able to charge the battery fast enough to run the car at full power during a race. 45% is HUGE and if you don't have enough battery power, you're going to be nowhere.

45:55 or 50:50 is power, when battery is deploying.

In reality they can only use about 8.5 MJ of electrical energy per lap. By my calculation they use about 80-100 MJ of energy from fuel per lap.

[AR3-GP]

I still don't understand how they're going to be able to charge the battery fast enough to run the car at full power during a race. 45% is HUGE and if you don't have enough battery power, you're going to be nowhere.

45:55 or 50:50 is power, when battery is deploying.

In reality they can only use about 8.5 MJ of electrical energy per lap. By my calculation they use about 80-100 MJ of energy from fuel per lap.

This doesn’t the fit agenda.

[Jambier]

I still don't understand how they're going to be able to charge the battery fast enough to run the car at full power during a race. 45% is HUGE and if you don't have enough battery power, you're going to be nowhere.

Battery doesn’t even do 1 qualy lap, it can store enough energy.
So in race they will use it not that much

[FittingMechanics]

What time is the livery reveal?

[ali623]

3PM GMT

[De Wet]

https://x.com/McLarenF1


Looks like Papaya Rear Wing.

[LionsHeart]

This might be a bit off topic, but I'm glad the monocoque flows smoothly into the nose, without those steps we saw in 2012-2013. The nose cones also look good. No more sausages. Is this really what we've been waiting for? It's very nice. They remind me of the racing cars of the mid-2000s.

The presentation is in an hour. I'm really looking forward to it.

[Seerix]

livestream

[FNTC]

[Emag]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAuc01cWwAA ... name=large

livery-wise, same as last year. boooo