2022 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

[JordanMugen]

"But they can’t do that live in multiple conditions in the space of 10 minutes – and a wind tunnel can with this molecular resolution."

What an engineer thing to say.

Yup, the continuum (& Reynolds-averaged!) model of fluid flow in CFD can't match the temporal & molecular resolution of... physical reality.

[runningmanz]

"But they can’t do that live in multiple conditions in the space of 10 minutes – and a wind tunnel can with this molecular resolution."

What an engineer thing to say.

Yup, the continuum (& Reynolds-averaged!) model of fluid flow in CFD can't match the temporal & molecular resolution of... physical reality.

Yeah now in layman's terms for the average punter thanks Mr Key.

[Emag]

Things definitely looking good here. I don't know if the diffuser changes were significant, but Lando reported quite a big step in grip in his quali sim.

After a relatively tough year, it's nice to see stuff like this, albeit its still only practice.

[Macklaren]

P2 and P3 with the soft runs? Love this track~#itsonlyFP2

[Slahinki]

Things definitely looking good here. I don't know if the diffuser changes were significant, but Lando reported quite a big step in grip in his quali sim.

After a relatively tough year, it's nice to see stuff like this, albeit its still only practice.

Yeah, practice is practice, but it's certainly looking a lot more promising than most sessions so far this season.

[101FlyingDutchman]

Interesting that RIC reports that he can’t go quicker. But the team wall says, opportunities in braking for T6 and T12. 0.2s behind NOR is encouraging though. Seemingly still a tad uncomfortable in the characteristics of the car. Car looks good though. Draggy but it does have impressive DF in full DF kit

[MrGapes]

As I said before the car has good downforce but the drag lets it down.

[Emag]

Interesting that RIC reports that he can’t go quicker. But the team wall says, opportunities in braking for T6 and T12. 0.2s behind NOR is encouraging though. Seemingly still a tad uncomfortable in the characteristics of the car. Car looks good though. Draggy but it does have impressive DF in full DF kit

Lando should also have a bit more in that lap because he ran quite wide in the final corner.

[Emag]

Anyone keeping track of long run pace? Can't really follow it at the moment.

Would be disappointing to drop from a 0.2s gap in one lap pace to over a second behind in race pace.

[Ben1980]

Is it easy to make a good downforce car less draggy?

[MrGapes]

Its ashame on a weekend where the car looks very competitive on a track its hard to overtake, its rainy

[101FlyingDutchman]

Its ashame on a weekend where the car looks very competitive on a track its hard to overtake, its rainy

Difference could well be even more pronounced when it’s rainy. You need the DF when it gets tricky.

[Emag]

Its ashame on a weekend where the car looks very competitive on a track its hard to overtake, its rainy

Well, if we take Imola as a reference then a bit of rain might not be such a bad thing.

[Mansell89]

Matching Red Bull by the looks of it? Excellent start to the weekend and as expected, a medium speed track playing right to our relative strength.

[Lucky]