F1 Season 2012 - Car Presentations Calendar

[Ferrari_Fanatic]

i think thats their 2010 car with the f-duct and engine cover.

yeah i noticed after i posted someone messing about

[scuderiafan]

yeah i noticed after i posted someone messing about

lol, well to be honest, their new car might as well be a mixture of those 2, so by that logice the pic is fine

here is the gallery on sky sports.

http://www.skysports.com/gallery/det...0.html#photo=1

[Ferrari_Fanatic]

Well Ferrari are the ones going to look like there coming for a fight with redfools with there new radical looks

[Ste]

It's the MP4-25 minus the F-Duct.

[scuderiafan]

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right, lets get these over to maranello asap.































if they care

[Nisko]

they are hiding something under the car, because you see how the car is set

[Hornet]

That diffuser doesn't look right, guess they are not showing the actual diffuser yet?

Seems they went from elephant ear sidepod to stretching it horizontally.

[Nisko]

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[Nisko]

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[Salvador Dali]

There is a new element under the nose - I don't know what it is but it has a plank in the middle of the car.

Here are two pics that show this as good as I can find them. What do you think of it?

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McLaren-MP247-Sutton_2711290.jpg

[Hornet]

Where's the exhaust anyway. Is that thing on the side to the right of the vodafone the exhaust? looks like its aiming for the diffuse or somewhere near the floor edge

[scuderiafan]

Where's the exhaust anyway. Is that thing on the side to the right of the vodafone the exhaust? looks like its aiming for the diffuse or somewhere near the floor edge

yeah, apparently thats the temporary exhaust. we will see the real one, come Jerez.

about the little minifloor underneath the nose, i dont know. maybe scarbs will pick up on it?

[tifosi_kaka]

every year, unimpressed fans of teams that have had boring launches say that, hoping it will come true, but never really happens.
i know, as that was how i felt last year

still, it will be fast though.

but surely those exhausts are a little too low for the rules, no?

I think that is because they have raised the back-end of the car, notice the rake of the car in the picture taken from the side. Hence the exhausts will be pointed towards the diffuser which creates the blown diffuser effect.

But are the height of the exhausts deemed to be a certain distance above the ground or above the bottom of the car?

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right, lets get these over to maranello asap.































if they care

[burak karakutuk]

Didnt Lewis said on his speech they havent reached the last year car's downforce level after ebd ban.I expect their basic car is open to improve.Not so much changes,nothing special to me but i liked the rear side of the car and front brake.Exhaust exits seems very low to me.Maybe they wanted to hide some innovations,upgrading the car part by part

[Forza 27]

This is the old wing so it could be a replacement for cameras or snow plough with the tray behind. As for the whole car by lower AA section the nose doesn't have that "bump" on it. The exhaust could be only for presentation (they could replace it). The rear suspension is mouted to the crash structure. The side pods are not L anymore but narrower with have undercut. I think they will change some parts and this was just presentation model.

[scuderiafan]

There is a new element under the nose - I don't know what it is but it has a plank in the middle of the car.

Here are two pics that show this as good as I can find them. What do you think of it?

McLaren-MP24701_2711327.jpg

McLaren-MP247-Sutton_2711290.jpg

do you mean this?

some have said it goes to the splitter, but aside from that i dont know.

found this from mclaren thread on autosport forums.

[burak karakutuk]

do you mean this?

some have said it goes to the splitter, but aside from that i dont know.

found this from mclaren thread on autosport forums.

Over the spliiter or t-tray,it's like a ivory

[wacc]

There is a new element under the nose - I don't know what it is but it has a plank in the middle of the car.

They have this element on their car for a long time.

Edit: but it seems now it is refined
Edit (2): here is a link to mp4-26 at the start of last year: http://x-o.blog.cz/1102/predstaveni-mclaren-mp4-26 . You can see this element, it is for better air flow direction.

[Salvador Dali]

They have this element on their car for a long time.

Edit: but it seems now it is refined

Sorry I didn't see that till now! But than again it is a McLaren and I prefer to watch Ferrari!

[Forza 27]

The picture from the front is more of optical illusion and from the side it seems like ride hide measurement sensor team use durring testing.

[scuderiafan]

oh right, so nothing unusual then. good

[dfunk257]

Car looks too plain to me. Im expecting it to change alot by Melbourne

[number 13]

Just don't forget that they will hide somethings in their launch and have a basic package in their cover just like we will do in Friday ( ) we still can't know for sure what's going on,but really nothing very impressive.

[stefa]

Anyway, McLaren proved that with new regulations car does not need to look UGLY as Caterham! Nose is looking really nice to me. Hoping our car will feature simillar nose.

[Ste]

Virtually the same.

[Sianellen]

Virtually the same.

is that the first pic of the mp4/26 though when it was rubbish or a later one when they changed it?

[Ste]

is that the first pic of the mp4/26 though when it was rubbish or a later one when they changed it?

It's a launch picture, just like this years launch picture.

Only difference with the 'rubbish' one and the one that worked was the octopus box which you can't see anyway.

[Sianellen]

It's a launch picture, just like this years launch picture.

Only difference with the 'rubbish' one and the one that worked was the octopus box which you can't see anyway.

not always about what you see I guess. Only in Australia will we know how good it is.

[wacc]

It would be epic, if there was a completly different car on test day. :)

[epiclyaddicted]

Just noticed the demo car didn't have any diffuser fitted. Are they hiding something in the floor/diffuser section?