McLaren Team Principal Martin Whitmarsh admitted that the launch version of McLaren’s new MP4-27 car had plastic exhausts and a fake diffuser installed at the presentation in Woking last week.
Whitmarsh: “The exhaust was made of plastic; you will not see those components in that form again.” For the 2012 season, exhaust-blown diffusers are banned from, which forced the Formula team to come up with other creative ideas to compensate for the loss downforce. For now, McLaren is not giving anything away about their ideas on this subject.
Whitmarsh also stated that the car launched at Woking is in fact not the car in which the team is going to race. He said: “The car will look different at Jerez to what it looked last week and a lot different in Australia. At the weekend at Idiada (Spain) we did an aero test where we had a series of news parts that were not on the car at Woking.”
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