The 2024 season goes down in historical past as some of the competitively numerous we’ve ever seen. For the primary time, 4 groups achieved one-two race outcomes. Nevertheless it was McLaren who emerged because the 2024 world champion crew.
The aggressive switchover from Pink Bull dominance to McLaren so typically being quicker occurred on the Miami Grand Prix, spherical 6 of the championship. That is the place McLaren launched their massive improve, an important a part of which was a entrance wing that includes way more aero-elasticity than earlier than.
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This was game-changing know-how, inflicting a serious pivot within the aggressive form of the season. For the explanation why, we have to take a look at how Pink Bull initially mastered the bottom impact rules, launched in 2022. They discovered a bonus over everybody by means of a greater integration of suspension and aerodynamics, as defined by Technical Director Pierre Wache.
“We had a facet of the automotive which allowed us to rebalance the automotive, [from track to track],” Wache explains. “We benefitted from this for 2 years. However now the others have launched this entrance wing deflection to permit them to steadiness the automotive and in that facet they’re now in entrance of us.
