McLaren MCL35

[Thunder]

This is the McLaren MCL35 offical car thread.

Please discuss ONLY technical items of this car, and refrain from speculation.

General discussion about the team, its drivers and performance can be posted in the team thread.

Livery Talk also belongs in the Team Thread. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=28681

[Thunder]

[desl]

[f1rules]

[Mansell89]

A real evolution on 2019- that orange matte paint hiding lots of body shape I feel!

[101FlyingDutchman]

So far I’m a tad disappointed. The barge boards look hardly different....

[MtthsMlw]

[f1rules]

[kfrantzios]

Great Livery. Quite a different nose. James Key there.

[cplchanb]

So teams are converging on the merc style slim nose...

[Jip]

That car is clean. Like it better on the studio photo than in the presentation.

[Holm86]

So no mystery airbox

[desl]

Render:

[Holm86]

The sidepod outlets looks weird at the end of the coke shape, looks massively undercut in that area

Maybe its just the paint scheme fooling my eyes

[PhillipM]

Okay, now we're launched, you can see there's bit different sidepod upper philosophy this year versus most, diverting a lot more air around the sides rather than down off the upper surface, which is much flatter than most cars, they tried this before once and ended up changing back, so it's a little risky.