First the top teams, McLaren has unveiled its new formula 1 racer on Wednesday (1.2.). With the MP4-27, the team from Woking wants to again enter a World Championship after a three year break. We have the photos and the technical details of the new chrome arrow.
> Background: technical analysis - McLaren MP4-27
Red bull presents its new car on the Internet, Caterham in an English journal. McLaren and Ferrari still live in reality. The new McLaren MP4-27 saw the light of day in his birthplace, the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking.
Red bulls great opponent who has last two years let the cat out of the bag. As the ceiling was deducted at 12.02 P.m., a car came forth, which reminded of that away from the previous year. Technology Director paddy Lowe called an "evolution of the large changes more took place under the disguise as on her" the MP4-27.
This is good British understatement. The page boxes no longer have the shape of the ear which gave his distinctive look of its predecessor. The cooling vents are now rectangular narrow such as Briefkastenschlitze and as far as possible from the ground away as possible. You fall diagonally and quite abruptly to a rear end that is so narrow as that of Red Bull from the previous year.
"The shape of our page boxes last year was part of the exhaust concept." You pressed the flow down into the area, where the exhaust is resulted. "With the new exhaust rules this form would have made more pointless," Lowe justified the move away from the old approach.
Key word exhaust: where exactly he escapes, McLaren leaves still is. From the side boxes a massive bump rampantly halfway up, and somewhere in this area, the exhaust gases are in the atmosphere will blow. However, the opening was stamped at the point in the disguise, rather served camouflage and deception. The size of the bump can be several options for McLaren. We will only experience the test drives in Jerez what are the technicians really have thought out.
The fact is that one can use the exhaust gases are only to a modest extent for aerodynamic purposes. "Our to blown diffuser was one of the best in the field", leads Project Manager Tim Goss out. "We had to experience painful that at Silverstone, as the exhaust rules for this a race were restricted." McLaren has suffered the most among them. That was a lesson for us. "Therefore we focused more on the MP4-27 on the classical aerodynamic, one that does not depend on the exhaust."
It shows the completely redesigned rear end. It acts much filigree and tidier than the MP4-26. The rear wing is more isolated in the wind, which improves its efficiency.
Nice nose out of tradition
The new McLaren is a nice car. The feared dent in the nose is missing. McLaren meets the new height standards, pushing the top of the nose from a point of 1,950 mm forward of the cockpit rear panel of 625 and 550 mm without a stage in the front.
The team of paddy Lowe led but not from an optical point of view. McLaren has pursued a different philosophy than the rest of the field for years with the forward section of the car. The nose was already relatively low. And thus also the chassis. There are also no abrupt transition. "We have maintained this alternative aerodynamic approach." "No one is forced to incorporate this dent into the chassis," explained the new sporting director Sam Michael.
Jenson Button delighted about the aesthetically demanding Variant. He grinned against the public in Woking: "as you can see: this is a nice car." "Some others will not be there." Martin Whitmarsh also stated: "A car is nice then if it wins."
The shakedown of the McLaren MP4-27 is scheduled for next weekend in Spain. Young man Oliver Turvey will sit at the wheel when the first data about the aerodynamics are collected. Which is his first fast lap Red Bull fighter then on next Tuesday (7.2.) turn at the beginning of the official test in Jerez.
"I can't wait, to drive the new car", said button. "It is important that we travel to Melbourne (18.3) with a good feel for the car to the start of the season." "We must come out of the box and be strong." Button may drive the car at Jerez on Tuesday and Wednesday was the first. Hamilton then takes over the wheel on Thursday and Friday.
Auto will hold as usual motor und sport on all official test days this year with our live coverage from the line up to date.
Red bull presents its new car on the Internet, Caterham in an English journal. McLaren and Ferrari still live in reality. The new McLaren MP4-27 saw the light of day in his birthplace, the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking.
Red bulls great opponent who has last two years let the cat out of the bag. As the ceiling was deducted at 12.02 P.m., a car came forth, which reminded of that away from the previous year. Technology Director paddy Lowe called an "evolution of the large changes more took place under the disguise as on her" the MP4-27.
This is good British understatement. The page boxes no longer have the shape of the ear which gave his distinctive look of its predecessor. The cooling vents are now rectangular narrow such as Briefkastenschlitze and as far as possible from the ground away as possible. You fall diagonally and quite abruptly to a rear end that is so narrow as that of Red Bull from the previous year.
"The shape of our page boxes last year was part of the exhaust concept." You pressed the flow down into the area, where the exhaust is resulted. "With the new exhaust rules this form would have made more pointless," Lowe justified the move away from the old approach.
Key word exhaust: where exactly he escapes, McLaren leaves still is. From the side boxes a massive bump rampantly halfway up, and somewhere in this area, the exhaust gases are in the atmosphere will blow. However, the opening was stamped at the point in the disguise, rather served camouflage and deception. The size of the bump can be several options for McLaren. We will only experience the test drives in Jerez what are the technicians really have thought out.
The fact is that one can use the exhaust gases are only to a modest extent for aerodynamic purposes. "Our to blown diffuser was one of the best in the field", leads Project Manager Tim Goss out. "We had to experience painful that at Silverstone, as the exhaust rules for this a race were restricted." McLaren has suffered the most among them. That was a lesson for us. "Therefore we focused more on the MP4-27 on the classical aerodynamic, one that does not depend on the exhaust."
It shows the completely redesigned rear end. It acts much filigree and tidier than the MP4-26. The rear wing is more isolated in the wind, which improves its efficiency.
Nice nose out of tradition
The new McLaren is a nice car. The feared dent in the nose is missing. McLaren meets the new height standards, pushing the top of the nose from a point of 1,950 mm forward of the cockpit rear panel of 625 and 550 mm without a stage in the front.
The team of paddy Lowe led but not from an optical point of view. McLaren has pursued a different philosophy than the rest of the field for years with the forward section of the car. The nose was already relatively low. And thus also the chassis. There are also no abrupt transition. "We have maintained this alternative aerodynamic approach." "No one is forced to incorporate this dent into the chassis," explained the new sporting director Sam Michael.
Jenson Button delighted about the aesthetically demanding Variant. He grinned against the public in Woking: "as you can see: this is a nice car." "Some others will not be there." Martin Whitmarsh also stated: "A car is nice then if it wins."
The shakedown of the McLaren MP4-27 is scheduled for next weekend in Spain. Young man Oliver Turvey will sit at the wheel when the first data about the aerodynamics are collected. Which is his first fast lap Red Bull fighter then on next Tuesday (7.2.) turn at the beginning of the official test in Jerez.
"I can't wait, to drive the new car", said button. "It is important that we travel to Melbourne (18.3) with a good feel for the car to the start of the season." "We must come out of the box and be strong." Button may drive the car at Jerez on Tuesday and Wednesday was the first. Hamilton then takes over the wheel on Thursday and Friday.
Auto will hold as usual motor und sport on all official test days this year with our live coverage from the line up to date.
