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McLaren-MP247-Sutton12_2711320.jpg
this is the interesting image. It doesn't look like they're doing the scarbs trick. it looks like the exhaust pipe itself ends in a legal position, but they've put bodywork around it, there's a hole to let some of the gas out, then a portion of it gets redirected back in towards the car and presumably the EBD. seems very dodgy on legality. also, that extra bodywork would have to be made out of something really heat-resistant. Actually, depending on the positioning of the holes, they could be drawing air in to the body at that point via venturi effect, capturing extra flow to drive the diffuser as well as cooling the exhaust area. I might actually go away and read the regulations now...
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Lovely pics.. thanks for posting all...

Aye, the bingo wing mirrors were the first thing I spotted. :lol:

Ha... well, at least we'll be able to see over the noses better next year!

And you can blame Lewis and his "I can't see out of my mirrors" shtick for this I suppose... he certainly wasn't thinking of the rllmuk championship when he said that...

I might actually go away and read the regulations now...

Yeah I've just been trying to find them... could you post a link if you do?

It certainly seems to be going against the spirit of the new rules, which was to reduce the effect the exhaust has on the behaviour of the car... but obviously technically it's legal or they wouldn't have bothered... just depends which way the FIA's random hand of judgement falls.... they'll probably say it's ok now and then ban it on the Friday at Melbourne...

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one thing the FIA have always been good for is putting the tech regs on the net:

http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/347ECF8A39ABF5BAC125797B0034F64B/$FILE/1-2012%20TECHNICAL%20REGULATIONS%2007-12-2011.pdf

(unlike NASCAR, who keep everything secret) It's article 5.8, starting on page 22.

my reading of 5.8.4 would make what McLaren have done totally illegal - there is a restiction on bodywork in that area. very interesting.

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kiroquai

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one thing the FIA have always been good for is putting the tech regs on the net:

http://argent.fia.co...007-12-2011.pdf

(unlike NASCAR, who keep everything secret) It's article 5.8, starting on page 22.

That's because NASCAR's tech regs are always influenced by a) if the person caught cheating is a top-line popular driver and hence penalising them would be seriously detrimental to their image, b) if the person caught cheating has been caught at a circuit close to their main sponsor's headquarters, c) how much chewing tobacco and beef jerky would get thrown at them at the next race for penalising a local favourite.

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kiroquai

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I think it looks awesome, like the F1 equivalent of a muscle car. But then, their 2009 car was a proper stunner ... that drove like a three-legged dog.

I've been wrong so many times on how I thought a car would do based on how it looked at launch I gave up years ago, but I still hold two (rare) examples of right guesses as fine 'I told you so' moments.

The first was when I told all the F1 loving kids in my school year that Benetton wouldn't win a race in '96 after Schumacher left.

The second was when I looked at the 2009 McLaren and said 'that looks bloody awful, and doesn't even look remotely fast'. I genuinely think that barring the 1995 car it is my least favourite looking McLaren since I started watching the sport!

Then again, I thought the 2007 Honda looked pretty amazing...

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Frank Dernie always used to say about Colin Chapman that he would put something obviously debatable right there on the outside of the car.

He never expected to be able to race it but it was there to stop people looking too closely for something else clever he'd done elsewhere.

I would not be surprised if the exhausts are ultimately a herring.

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@ Dudley: Remarkably well-timed comment there, as I've just been listening to this month's Motorsport Magazine podcast. Pay Symonds says Chapman used to get mechanics to put a cloth cover over a kettle and walk out the back of the garage with it; all the snappers and journos would go running after the mechanic trying to find out what it was, during which time any super secret bits would be removed from the premises rather more discretely :).

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@ Dudley: Remarkably well-timed comment there, as I've just been listening to this month's Motorsport Magazine podcast. Pay Symonds says Chapman used to get mechanics to put a cloth cover over a kettle and walk out the back of the garage with it; all the snappers and journos would go running after the mechanic trying to find out what it was, during which time any super secret bits would be removed from the premises rather more discretely :).

Beautiful.

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Well i like the look of it and i always appreciate a team willing to push what the rules mean rather than say.

That and it doesn't look like the Caterham ... it's win win.

Love the high sidepods, makes it look like a le Mans car, i think the idea is to push the air up ove the car at a higher speed to drag exhaust gas out of them there pods and stop too much breakdown in the laminar flow.

Roll on Ferrari and lets see what they have shall we :)

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