The McLaren is sporting a much higher nose set-up (see bottom drawing) in Spain, after the team briefly evaluated it at last week's Mugello test. They had started the season with a much lower nose set-up (see top drawing). The new solution on the MP4-27 feeds a much more powerful airflow under the...»
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have been using different front wings in Bahrain. Button has opted to run the new one, introduced in Shanghai, which features different upper flaps and no gills in the middle of the endplate (see inset). Hamilton, meanwhile, has chosen to use the old one...»
With the FIA placing tight restrictions on exhaust-exit positioning for 2012 in a bid to eliminate blown diffusers, teams' solutions in this area and how those solutions influence their cars' aerodynamic set-ups is already a real talking point of the new Formula One season. McLaren's engineers have...»
For 2012 McLaren have radically changed the shape of their sidepods. The unique L-shaped design of last year's MP4-26, which split the airflow (see blue arrows), has gone. In its place is a horizontal, square shaped solution (see main drawing), reminiscent of that introduced by the team at...»
