Continuing the @ScarbsTech #BritishGP spec deep dives...
@McLarenF1 Mercedes MCL36
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Mcl went with a complex floor edge far earlier than most. With a finned scrolled edge towards the front, a flap in the mid section and a well supported deck in front of the rear tyre.
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Speed Kiwi on the DRS pod. The lower DRS linkage pulls the flap open, the upper part omission a stay with a pivoted end to support the wide flap.
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After early season problems with brake ducting, the team finally developed a well managed carbon exit duct.
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Front wing detail with the flap angle adjuster.
Mcl have this inboard, other teams place it outboard to exploit a vortex produced when the flap flexes at speed.
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Missing the tea tray itself in this picture, Mcl use a buckling stay support the front of the floor.
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Uniquely the floor inlet joins to the t- tray. Flow over the tray goes up over the floor thru the sidepod undercut. There is a floor spec with part of the fence-teatray join cut away to allow more flow into the main underfloor tunnel
Note the high tunnel roof height
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