McLaren MP4-28 Mercedes

[Henning]

The strakes over the front of the sidepods look quite a bit longer than previously and than other teams. Is the McLaren possibly more sensitive to flow angle relative to the sidepods than others?

[Henning]

Haha, I've just seen the toast rack that Williams have for their sidepod strakes, so maybe McLaren aren't as sensitive as some

[stefan_]

Monaco 2013 - Wednesday (22.05.2013)





via AMuS

[Pup]

Well at least we know they got to use the FIA rig.

Is that exhaust tapering? I think that may be the first time we've seen the underside.

It also looks like McLaren have decided to take advantage of the rear wing endplate loophole. Two years later.

[gray41]

loads more strakes on the rearwing endplate.

[Pup]

Similar to Barcelona, but I guess this is a higher DF version.

[turbof1]

Similar to Barcelona, but I guess this is a higher DF version.

Yeah. They have a high AoA, which means the number of slits need to be increased too.

Looks fairly the same car as in Barcelona. No changes at all at the back, except the rear wing of course.

[mclaren_mircea]

What do you think about the front wing? It's the new fron wing which couldn't be used in Spain (they brought it to late), or is the same old fron wing?

[Blackout]

Black extensions on the FW's cascades look new to me.

[Pup]

And black endplates. Now they're just messin with us.

[Blackout]

Ah must be the Barcelona new FW

[turbof1]

It's the new FW. Easy spot. Nothing has changed on it compared to Barcelona.

I don't think the endplate is black, just lots of shadow making it look so.

[mclaren_mircea]

@turbof1

It's the new front wing which wasn't run in Barcelona, or nothing has changed since Barcelona (in Barcelona they didn'd run the new front wing)?

[turbof1]

@turbof1

It's the new front wing which wasn't run in Barcelona, or nothing has changed since Barcelona (in Barcelona they didn'd run the new front wing)?

New front wing which wasn't run in barcelona, and nothing has changed on it.

[Pup]

Yeah, but they verified that there were indeed two new front wings in Barcelona. One which we saw, with the white endplates; and another which was FedExed in on Saturday morning. They only ran the white one once with Perez and the second never left the garage.