Did McLaren copy Red Bull after photos of the RB19 in the air in Monaco?
Sergio Perez’s car was hoist🌼ed by a crane earlier this season, givinꦉg away the complexity and potential secrets of F1’s most successful machine.
At the F1 British Grand Prix in qualifying, McLaren stole the show as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris finished o൲n the front row in an upgraded car w🍬hich Mercedes claim is similar to the Red Bull.
“I’m sure all teams got inspir🅷ation from looking at the Red Bull car,” Stella said about Red Bull’s floor reveal several weeks ago.
“Like they get inspiration꧑ from all the photos that all teams get of any other car.
“P𝕴retty much all teams have their professional photographers that take as much as possible.
“And this is inspiration, I would detract from our aerodynamic department if I said: ‘Yes, we saw th🌜at, now we have the solution’.
“You see that and ‘maybe you can do th🅰is’, but then you have to do your own job and your own iteration, otherwise you don’t get to something that actually works.”
Lewis Hamilton noted about McLaren’s upgrades: “If you just put it alongside a Red Bull, it looks ver🃏y very similar down the side, so it’s working.”
Stella insisted: “Teams are equipped to try and absorb IP from lo🎶oking at the photos, from looking at the cars on display on Friday.
“You do take inspiration from the other cars.
“But taking inspiration, or even looki🐈ng at the photos, doesn’t mean that you copy the geometry, you install it in your CFD runs, in the computer simulation, or in a wind tunnel, and the car lights up in terms of downforce.
“Normally what happens is it gꦇoes down because your car is already optimised around what you h💟ave done up until that point.
“꧅The key element is understanding that some concepts add more potential that wi𓆉ll allow you to develop faster.
“Here is where you need t♕o have 🔯the right people in the right place.
“Peter Prodromou is leading the aerodynamic development at😼 McLaren and is doing an exceptional job in terms of setting the conceptual direction but also having organised and inspired the entire aerodynamic group.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports🌳 for a decade covering everything from American spor🐈ts, to football, to F1.
