McLaren cause stir with paint-heavy F1 car and ‘human wall’
Mc♊Laren raised eyebrows at the end of the first day of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.
McLaren caused a stir at the end of the opening day of 2025 F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris headlined the first of a three-day pre-season test by setting the pace at Sakhir following an hour-long delay caused by a circui💮t-wide power outage.
But Norris also grabbed attention for his final run of Wednesday when he emerged from the McLaren garage with his car almost completely decked in neon green168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: flow-visualisation dye.
ꦑF🧔1 teams use flow-vis paint to help better understand how air flow is working over their cars, and it has become a common sight at pre-season testing.
However, t♐he sheer amount used by McLaren raised eyebrows ▨in Bahrain.
“That is a lot of flow-visualisation dye and in fact, if they put any more of that on [Gabriel] Bortoleto will be geꦑtting the cockpit thinking its the Sauber there was so much green dye on that c♏ar” F1 technical expert Sam Collins said.
“We’ll get a bit of an idea at how that air flow is working over that McLaren. Now that’s the drawback to usingꦓ flow-visualisation techniques like that in an open test, you are not just showing yourself where that stream is flowing over the bodywork, you are also showing you🃏r rivals and all of us what’s going on.”
— Formula 1 (@F1)Fellow F1TV pundit A♊lex Brundle, son of former F1 driver Martin, commented: “I’m amazed they’ve done that, actu𝓰ally, with everyone in the pit lane, photographers all around the circuit.
“The full ae🐲ro concept for everyone to see in flow. Sure, you give away a sidepod or a little bit of the front suspension, but the lot is going to be quite a photograph fo🤡r the rest to be looking over.
“Especially f🐼or the car which will end the first day of 2025 p🍸re-season testing fastest.”
Norris was seen fighting his car at Turn 4 and Turn 10 💜as he conducted a single lap run before returning to the McLaren garage. One of his wing mirrors was even obscured by the volume of flow-vis paint.
On his return to the pit lane, a large number of McLaren employees formed a “human wall” around Norris’s car t🐟o to block the view from prying photographers and cameramen.
“They are all surrounding this car, to prevent anyone from taking close up photos ⭕or really high quality film footage of all of this flow-dye down the side of the car, ꩵbecause they are desperate to stop other teams from seeing all of this information they are giving away,” Collins explained.
Some crew members stopped a photographer from taking photos by jumping up in the air and wavi𒉰ng their hands in fron💎t of his camera.
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