BMMR61 wrote: ↑14 Jun 2025, 08:13
mwillems wrote: ↑14 Jun 2025, 07:09
Mclarens suspension geometry change, to address the issue of a lack.of feeling at the front.
Norris testing long-awaited fix for 'numb' McLaren issue - The Race
https://share.google/wkYf4X5RGg01ruMGG
It may be that the "numbness", antidive, and the strong front end bite of the MCL39 are part and parcel. Eliminate or mitigate the numbness by reducing the antidive geometry and you lose the class-leading (or RedBull) front end strength. Max's teammates struggle with it, Lando struggles with it, Oscar is more coy about it.
Yes this was my assertion previously. I don't think this is the first change they've brought, I believe they had been bringing other changes under the skin that might help it, is what I understand from snippets the team have alluded to.
Makes me wonder if making actual changes to the suspension geometry is something they preferred not to do. Even so, the changes to this geometry don't look crazy.
I think that the geometry makes the forces more vertical, i.e. they don't push into the car and less of the energy is going into the dampers or perhaps through other attachment points, which helps the car keep a strong horizontal contact patch.
Which comes back to the fact that they can try to make the attachment points or dampers more sensitive to the forces, but after that, perhaps all they can do is adjust the geometry a little.
But who knows, I likely don't know what I'm talking about.
