Like the innovative new Renault, McLaren’s unlaunched 2011 car reportedly also features a trick exhaust system.<\/p>\n
That is the claim of Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, after the Lotus-sponsored R31 was revealed this week with the engine exhaust exiting at the bottom of the sidepod area.<\/p>\n
“The MP4-26 apparently has the same trick,” said the German report, referring to the car that will be launched in Berlin on Friday.<\/p>\n
A report in Italy’s Autosprint said the solution generates more downforce through the flow of air to the now mandatory single diffuser.<\/p>\n
Renault has confirmed that the R31’s exhaust layout is the reason for the car’s slightly different engine note at Valencia.<\/p>\n
“Renault’s thinking is in the right direction,” confirmed Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn.\u00a0 “We are working on a similar solution.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, most teams’ final car specifications will not be released until shortly before the Bahrain season opener.<\/p>\n
“There is always a certain amount of nervousness,” Red Bull designer Adrian Newey is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport.\u00a0 “The regulations we have now are pretty narrow.<\/p>\n
“Having a stroke of genius is fairly difficult, but should the competition come up with something, we will respond.”<\/p>\n
Last year, rival teams struggled to ape McLaren’s F-duct innovation because the basic chassis had to be homologated at the start of the season.<\/p>\n
“That was only for last year,” said Newey.\u00a0 “So now we can respond to things if necessary.”<\/p>\n
\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like the innovative new Renault, McLaren’s unlaunched 2011 car reportedly also features a trick exhaust system. That is the claim of Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, after the Lotus-sponsored R31 was revealed this week with the engine exhaust exiting at the bottom of the sidepod area. “The MP4-26 apparently has the same trick,” said the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,5284,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10853,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}