McLaren has denied that a senior staff member expressed concern the team’s newly-launched 2012 car flies close to the limits of the technical regulations.<\/p>\n
The staff member made the comments about the new MP4-27 single seater before it was launched by the British team at its Woking headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The story was only live on the internet for a short time before it was removed.<\/p>\n
After that, members of the media were contacted by McLaren insisting that the quotes had not been accurate.<\/p>\n
The saga caught the attention of the widely circulated German newspaper Bild, which wondered: “(the risk of a) protest?\u00a0 So maybe the car is illegal?<\/p>\n
“The rivals will now be looking very closely (at the car) at Jerez,” wrote correspondent Frank Schneider.<\/p>\n
He said the MP4-27 has “mysterious lumps” on the side, perhaps to “hide the exhausts”.<\/p>\n
Spanish sports newspaper Marca’s correspondent Marco Canseco, meanwhile, said the new McLaren is “not revolutionary” at first glance, with the disappearance of the L-shaped sidepods of last year even indicating a “backwards step”.<\/p>\n
The exhausts, however – with blown diffusers now banned – were “very well camouflaged” at the launch, “embedded in a strange bulge” at the rear of the engine cover.<\/p>\n
The diffuser, added Canseco, is “nonexistent” in the MP4-27’s launch version “to avoid clues being given to the rivals”.<\/p>\n
2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, laughed as he revealed that McLaren answered his call for better mirrors in the wake of several incidents last year.<\/p>\n
He said the new MP4-27 mirrors are higher and “don’t flap around”, joking that “Felipe (Massa) will be very happy about that”.<\/p>\n
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