Team: James Key (TD), Andreas Seidl (TP), Andrea Stella (RD), Peter Prodromou (CTO), Tony Salter (HA), Richard Frith (HVP), Stephen Watt (HEL), Marianne Hinson (Aero Dept. Manager), Christian Schramm (HRT), Hiroshi Imai (CRE), Mark Ingham (Head of Design), Kari Lammenranta (CM), Piers Thynne (Production Director), Paul James (TM), Simon Roberts (COO), Neil Oatley (Director of Design & Development), Zak Brown (CEO) Drivers: Carlos Sainz (55), Lando Norris (4) Team name: McLaren Racing
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Rake is a bit high again ...
Hopefully front wing updates will help lowering a bit.
You don't want the rake lowered. If they lower the rake, they're likely failing at sealing the floor. It's easier to seal the floor at a lower rake.
The whole idea of the rake is like having an adjustable rear wing. The rear suspension tension is setup to keep the hight at the speeds that they take the high speed corners in. Then squat in the straights where you don't need the DF. As the car squats the rear wing angle leans back and drag is reduced.
Agreed! But it needs about 5% or so lowering . It's a balance thingy between drag and cornering also will help exiting slow corners. New back suspension setup looks promising to that adjustment! This week it will saw whether the slight lowering can be done if correlation is good enough again!
I loved the iconic McLaren-Honda
But most of all i love McLaren . After all first contact made with M23 that had a Ford Cosworth PU
Ok so let me try and understand, mclaren has what, 100 aero engineers, they spec a car and develop it through hours of cfd and windtunnel, only last week they finally got to experience themselves if their real life version works as exspected, only last week they started to test different rake angles to see if the cfd/wndtnl model optimum, is also real life optimum or if they gain anything from increasing or decreasing rake. And still some in here argue they should increase or decrease the angle, im not even sure they are 100% themselves yet...
