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Tech F1i – The analysis from Austin and Mexico

McLAREN ALREADY PREPARING 2018 In Mexico, Fernando Alonso’s McLaren MCL32 was fitted with the new front wing specification that had been introduced a week earlier in the US. The update features a pair of slits on the inner section of the wing (see white and blue arrows), in the area where the all-important Y250 vortex is generated, stemming from the pressure differential between the edge of the neutral section (located 250mm away from the car’s longitudinal axis on both sides) and the remainder of the wing. F1 aerodynamicists are keen to use the vortex’ energy to push the dirty wake of the rotating front wheels and optimise how the air flows around the sidepods. Adding the cuts is...
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