2014 McLaren MP4-29

[Jimlaad43]

Are the noses that low to help stop the cars riding over the top of another in the event of a crash? Safety reasons?

Yeah, they don't want them to do a Webber/Kovalainen.

 

[Howard]

 

[Meff28s]

Ugliest nose ever XD
Anyway is it official ?

 

[Bradley Vanian]

That 2nd one looks absolutely exquisite. Not that far off from a good aerodynamic design as well. Similar to 2005.

EDIT: If the only actual difference in the picture is the black to 'create' the fake nose, then that would be exactly the same and look far better.

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Looks like Lotus is much nimbler car, maybe because Renault turbo engine requires less cooling. Also apparently McLaren copied W04's angled sidepod intakes.

 

[Meff28s]

The two cars here can nose-**** together

 

[Andrew Ford]

The two cars here can nose-**** together

well the lotus looks like she had a rather large ex in comparison.

 

[zuhaitz667]

LIKE THAT?HAHAHAHAHA

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

LIKE THAT?HAHAHAHAHA
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hey! put your nose is someone else his business xD

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Is funny how just changing some of the paint makes it look a million times better!

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

still needs some speccoc edits, but this is how it looks like on the current mclaren

 

[zuhaitz667]

amazing

still needs some speccoc edits, but this is how it looks like on the current mclaren

 

[zuhaitz667]

can you upload the mclaren 2014?

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

can you upload the mclaren 2014?

Nope, he's part of my 2014 mod and still not finished, so i can't upload it

 

[zuhaitz667]

thaks for your time, okey

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Looks counter-intuitive but .. according to Autosport:

"The team has attached a large aerodynamically-profiled 'blocker' to each of the rearmost suspension links."

"The interesting thing about this package is that when the car is at higher ride height, these sections will almost completely close the gap at the top of the diffuser, helping it to work at low speed.
At higher speed, because of suspension deflection, a gap will open up between the bottom of the lower blocker and the diffuser, which will reduce drag."

"This could be McLaren's secret weapon because, if it does work, it is not something that can be copied in five minutes as it is dependent on a number of design parameters at the rear of the car."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112341

 

[Ho3n3r]

Bloody clever! These engineers are amazing in exploiting every little ounce of potential.

 

[f1superracer]

I guess it should be called DDRS (Diffuser Drag Reduction System)

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Looks illegal to me. But Red Bull ran illegal car for years, so this could provide some justice.

 

[Tony Holder]

It is being questioned from what I have seen....