Has Anybody noticed this

[m3_lover]

This week in testing Mclaren were running a different colour on there front wing, does anybody know why?

http://images.f1racing.net/large/62327.jpg

[manchild]

Looks like unpainted wing with stickers "Emirates". I guess it was brought from factory ASAP with no time for painting and drying. Other wings they used were painted as ususal.

http://www.f1total.com//bilder/2006/tes ... //z113.jpg

[zac510]

They should race with it, it would help distinguish it from the MF1!

[DaveKillens]

They should race with it, it would help distinguish it from the MF1!

ROLFTMAO That's exactly what I thought, to distinguish itself from the Midlands car on head on shots.

My theory is that the wing was painted black to obscure detail changes. Black is a great color to make it difficult to make out details, and if McLaren have some change they want to keep from other teams, that's one way to go.

[Tom]

good plan DaveKillens, I'd like to have someone like you on my team.

what does ROLF mean again?

[RH1300S]

ROTFLMAO

Roll on the floor, laugh my arse off

[JimmyK]

Interesting, that wing looks like they've reverted to their older (and I assumed worse) curved wing, instead of the newer spoon bit in the middle with more flatness towards the edges.

If I didn't know better I'd say that wing was off the MP4-20 and Emerites had been added. Makes no sense if it were that, just my random thought for the day though

[DaveKillens]

good plan DaveKillens, I'd like to have someone like you on my team.

Cool, does that mean I have to drink Scottish beer? I better go into training then....
But I will have to buy earplugs. many years ago, during my military days, I was involved with the Canadian Black Watch, and woke up every d--n morning at 5 AM to the sound of bagpipes... arrrrggghhhhhhhh

[zac510]

what does ROLF mean again?

[Scuderia_Russ]

[Tom]

well tie me kangaroo down sport, forgot old Rolfy.

[mep]

Once I have heard that on a sailing ship two black sails
have a positive effect on the efficiency because it heads
up the air passing through.
But I doubt this would work on a fast race car.

[DaveKillens]

Once I have heard that on a sailing ship two black sails
have a positive effect on the efficiency because it heads
up the air passing through.
But I doubt this would work on a fast race car.

The theory is correct, but I don't see many sailing ships with black sails...
But basically, if you have the sails act like a venturi, and heat the medium as it passes through, it will expand, exert pressure on the insides of the venturi, and thus more forward thrust. This has been used in practice, though. For instance the WW2 US P51 Mustang had a large radiator on the belly. The air entered a belly intake, passed through the radiator, and then before it exited the aircraft, passed through a controlled venturi. It added a slight amount of thrust.

[Ciro Pabón]

The theory is correct, but I don't see many sailing ships with black sails...

Theseus ship had black sails, "because everybody was mourning", when he went to Crete to encounter the Minoutaur. He told Egeus, his father, to watch for white sails if he returned alive.

Maybe McLaren will paint the wing white if they win a race. Right now, I understand their mourning: they have lost the best aerodynamicist and the best pilot.

[Tom]

Thats what came to my mind, Theseus told his farther that if his ship arrived home with black sails he was dead. Having left his girlfriend behind on an island (by mistake?) after defeating the Minatour the gods punished him by making him forget to change the sails so he pulled into port with black sails and his farther, thinking he was dead jumped off a cliff!

What I wondered was why were the sails black in the first place?