At the last round in Hungary we looked at BMW updates behind the rear axle. In Turkey we look at those just in front of it. The bodywork has been lowered in the area around the engine exhausts - by about 2.5 cm - meaning the exhausts now protrude more clearly (see magnified detail). This change...
In contrast to its Ferrari rival, which sports multiple cooling gills, the McLaren features totally enclosed sidepods, despite the high Turkish temperatures. The MP4-22's radiator layout, however, does not differ greatly from that of the F2007. The radiator pack sports a single incline of around 68...
The barge boards continue to evolve. In Turkey the front ones now feature a larger horizontal fin (1). The lower edges of the main boards have also been refined to work in conjunction with the front boards. A small vertical fence (2 - right) has been placed beside the splitter's horizontal section...
Introduced in Hungary and retained for Turkey, a thin Gurney tab (blue arrows) has been applied to the top half of the shields. The tab has a slightly curved side profile, wider at the extremities and narrower at the centre, so as to split the airflow in this area in two. This reduces the turbulence...
Istanbul is well known for its high temperatures and many teams increase the cooling capabilities of their cars here to prevent reliability issues. This is not the case on the Ferrari, as the multiple cooling gill system introduced earlier in the season is already more than efficient enough to cope....
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