tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Not very surprising as they use the red bull back end 
Formula 1 - 2012 Season
- Thread starter Dave Baumann
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Well, they get their hydraulics and gearbox from Red Bull
Here's more pics etc of the car
http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/first-analysis-caterham-ct-01/
DarthShader
Regular
I know they are being supplied by Red Bull, I simply didn't realize the deal involves the bodywork too.
So who is next to launch their car, Lotus?
So who is next to launch their car, Lotus?
I know they are being supplied by Red Bull, I simply didn't realize the deal involves the bodywork too.
So who is next to launch their car, Lotus?
It probably doesn't include bodywork, but it can set some limits to how you have to design your body around it
No I think Lotus was within a week of McLaren, Ferrari & Red Bull, but can't remember in which order they were - Lotus wasn't the first I'm quite sure thougj.
Oh my, that's ugly!
VW to enter F1 in 2018?
... by buying Group Lotus and thus turning Lotus F1 into their own factory team?
http://f1mole.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-mole-goes-out-to-lunch/
... by buying Group Lotus and thus turning Lotus F1 into their own factory team?
http://f1mole.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-mole-goes-out-to-lunch/
In Finnish media VW was said to be in talks with Toro Rosso, to be (only) Toro Rosso's engine supplier
edit:
This originated apparently from Wirtschaftswoche-magazine
http://www.planetf1.com/photo-gallery/7471620/McLaren-MP4-27#photo=1
The new McLaren, I'm glad they got rid of the fugly sidepods used last year - the nose puzzles me though - it doesn't look like it could be low enough to fit the regulations, or their monocoque is lower than allowed
The new McLaren, I'm glad they got rid of the fugly sidepods used last year - the nose puzzles me though - it doesn't look like it could be low enough to fit the regulations, or their monocoque is lower than allowed
IIRC Minimum height for the top chassis is not the issue from the rules perspective, they can run as low as they like; they don't because they want to exploit as much airflow from the front to the splitter / tea tray area to benefit the rear diffuser. The new rules have lowered the max height for the nosecone without changing the max allowed higher for the chassis, but both can be lower.
Without the V type chassis that others have been running the last few years, McLaren already had a lower chassis and nosecone in the first place, as evidenced by the wheels running higher than than hieght of the nosecone/chassis. There were comments around the place that pointed to McLarens nosecome from 2011 already being pretty close to the 2012 regulations.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/02/01/mclaren-mp427-mp426-compared/
Why? Because they are apparently going to be one of the few teams that can make a car look nice under these regs? They do it whilst having a fast car as well as their previous designs used similarly low chassis. The nose is not about the nose cone, it's all about the chassis and how they feel they can get the aero working around it.
Scarbes analysis of the Macca:
http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/launch-analysis-mclaren-mercedes-mp4-27/
Considering that the exhausts have to point upwards by no less than 10 degrees I doubt that's actually the exhaust.
no, because its advisable to have the nose as high as possible to maximise mass airflow
car designer Gary Anderson did a video review of the mclaren on the bbc f1 website
I'll see if I can find the link
edit: here it is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/16864721
car designer Gary Anderson did a video review of the mclaren on the bbc f1 website
I'll see if I can find the link
edit: here it is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/16864721
Davros, I understand why other teams do it, but he point being is that in actual fact that is clearly not the only philosophy that works. Why? Because this years McLaren is actually following the same path that they had already utilised the year before (low tub, low nose) and they were the team that was most closely challenging the benchmark car last year.
