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Austrian GP tech debrief: McLaren's radical rear wing

Giorgio Piola and Matt Somerfield look at the updates ran by McLaren, Williams and Manor during the Austrian Grand Prix. McLaren McLaren arrived in Austria with great hopes for its new rear wing design but after a short trial in FP1 it was decided that it would not run it for the remainder of the weekend. The new, complex rear wing design will be trialed again, with some revisions, at Silverstone but inconsistencies shown during the Friday session has McLaren reconsidering its merits.   McLaren MP4/31 rear wing endplate, Austrian GP Photo by: Giorgio Piola The radical-looking endplates are paired to a conventional mainplane and top flap, albeit run at an angle more aggressive than you’d...
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