The advance of McLaren F1 for Miami that sneak up in Yeda

The keyword is aerodynamic load. Current monoplays with soil effect seek maximum aerodynamic load to transform it into performance. But not to dirty aerodynamic efficacy, it is necessary to find solutions that do not transform in aerodynamic resistance with the risk of increasing resistance and, therefore, penalizing their velocities in line.

Fundamental, what the teams seek is to improve the effectiveness of the lower part of the car (which generates 60-70% of the vertical thrust) to try to download the ailerons to the maximum.

There is currently a consensus in the fact that McLaren has the faster car: four victories in five races attest, although a mastin like Max Verstappen keeps his Red Bull two points from Lando Norris, second in the pilot championship, already twelve of Oscar Piastri, new leader of the World Cup after Yeda’s race.

It was in Saudi Arabia where The Woking team tested an aerodynamic innovation package in the FP1that the team just used only in the first free training session and in the MCL39 of Piastri, while Norris used the standard version, with the aim of collecting data for a comparison between the two configurations.

Someone said McLaren ruled out the solutions, but it is not true. The technical team led by Rob Marshall simply planned the introduction of these developments and The “test” performed at the FP1 was not thinking for the Arab track, but was a preparatory for the next circuits.

Last year, a packet of innovations that would change the season in Miamiwhich will be the following calendar test. Florida’s career, first of the three great American awards, will be the second weekend to the sprint of the campaign after China, that is, will have A format with a single training sessionduring which it will be better to find the appropriate tuning for that treacherous urban circuit.

McLaren, therefore, would continue with the work already started in Saudi Arabia, with the intention of anticipating the novelties that will present their main rivals from Icola, the weekend that the European season will open officially.

The MCL39 led Yeda a new diffuser which has been redesigned in the central part of the extractor with the intention of improving aerodynamic performance. And they also appeared New fins in the back corner to change the flow pattern in a very sensitive area of ​​these cars with the intention of increasing aerodynamic efficiency.

The McLaren, in fact, is impregnable when it goes in clean air, but becomes less invincible when it has to advance, since it has no speed peaks as high as some of its rivals. The chief of aerodynamics, Peter Prodromouhe has advanced not to lose his current advantage …