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I hear that McLaren have dropped those horrible L-sidepods...
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
I hear that McLaren have dropped those horrible L-sidepods...Didn't they get rid a Pedro de la Rosa a while ago though?
I don't get it mate...
I don't get it mate...
sidekick, baggage, sidepod, hey they can't all be humorous. I'll do better next time, promise.
From his twitter page he said its his own design not a McLaren, some competition he entered. Surely it would have big problems with engine cooling if it were real.
“If the pictures are accurate,” BBC F1’s technical analyst Gary Anderson says, “Ferrari seem to have gone a different route by shortening the sidepods and having the crash structure (beside the driver) separate and in front of the sidepod.
“They’re trying to remove the blockage the sidepods create to the airflow coming off the front of the car.
“It’s a total concept thing – in that it is integral to the whole car design. So if it works, they’ve got one up on everyone else.”
It’s clear already, in fact, that the look of the new cars will attract even more attention than usual – and that’s because, as Anderson puts it, “the first thing that will stand out will be the ugly noses”.
I don't think this has been posted yet:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson ... r_ano.html“If the pictures are accurate,” BBC F1’s technical analyst Gary Anderson says, “Ferrari seem to have gone a different route by shortening the sidepods and having the crash structure (beside the driver) separate and in front of the sidepod.
“They’re trying to remove the blockage the sidepods create to the airflow coming off the front of the car.
“It’s a total concept thing – in that it is integral to the whole car design. So if it works, they’ve got one up on everyone else.”
It’s clear already, in fact, that the look of the new cars will attract even more attention than usual – and that’s because, as Anderson puts it, “the first thing that will stand out will be the ugly noses”.
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