Especially with reports of a substantial lift to engine performance 
Be interesting to see if that list compromises performance at all, as it wasnāt exactly flawless last season
More power and better drivability apparently. May Hamilton may be able to get it off the line now 
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Hmmmm perhaps another difficult year for Macā¦
Not sure about the Fezzer eitherā¦ 
Me thinks the carbon fibre shops are going to be rather busy this year!
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Hoping for something better from Red Bull tbhā¦
Hondaās F1 programme leader Yusuke Hasegawa said the end of the token system for engine development had allowed his company to work aggressively over the winter.
āWe improved every area of the engine that was [previously] restricted,ā he said.
"There were areas that we wanted to modify from the original engine to extract more power, and the car was changing dramatically so we wanted to redesign the engine.
āWe have a modified engine, a lower centre of gravity and less weight.ā
Agreed. Itās like the oversized front wings of a couple of years ago. There will be bits everywhere.
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How can you tell from the photos ?
Absolutely no idea tbh, but as many have said if it looks right itāll go wellā¦
Anyhow none of these teams are making over confident noise like Mercedes are at the moā¦
Anyway weāll see soon enoughā¦ 
As is usual, the devil is in the detail. The diffuser, which will have a greater influence this year, in each has been kept away from prying eyes. Likewise, the āreleaseā spec is generally different from ātestingā spec which in turn is different from āracingā spec. The only real show of how good (or otherwise) they all are will be in Australia.
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Hahaā¦ Brilliant!!
To be fair to McLaren, there are some exquisite detail work in the design. Whether it works in practice is a different questionā¦
Barge boards, front wing details are obvious. But there are also so clever ideas with slots in rear wing and front wing mounting. Plus some quite interesting stuff under the body behind the front wheels.
Thereās seems to be a lot of discussion as to the merit of using the āT wingā, Merc arenāt yet decided on it afaikā¦
But as you say, a lot of cars have fabulous details, and the micro management of the air flow, is being taken to new levelsā¦
More detail of rear wing can be seen hereā¦
And some excuses can be seen hereā¦
Alonso, looking disgruntled, about being āhappyā with McLaren-Honda.
Itās been annoying me since the first renders were released but the designs reminded me of something. Anyone remember A1 Grand Prix ?
Just without the anhedral nose treatmentā¦
