McLaren MP4-X shows the future vision motorsport
Posted on 03-12-2015 at 9:50 by CasperH – 31 Comments”
This morning, reveals McLaren her toekomstivisie on the racing in the form of the MP4-X. Holy Batmobile, Batman!
Don’t think this next year on the starting grid of the Formula 1 to find, because Batman is much too busy with the fighting of evil. But the designers of McLaren were given a free hand to a vision of the future in motorsport design. The result is this MP4-X, a kind of Formula 1 car. But in a different way.
To begin with, there is the closed cockpit, a feature which is increasingly spoken of in the king’s class of motorsport, especially for the safety of the passengers to increase after multiple (sometimes fatal) incidents in recent years. But there are more differences compared to the Formula 1 cars that we are used to.
Thus, there is taken into account with alternative aandrijfbronnen, there are aerodynamic features that adapt to the conditions on the track and the car will have to contact the burner if something goes bad.
Drive
The MP4-X will not get a standard internal combustion engine, and so there is room to experiment with the layout. The MP4-X is aimed at hybrid and electric propulsion, based on what is already found in the P1 and in the Formula E racing series. Details let McLaren have set aside.
McLaren has a special plan for the batteries that are in the chassis hidden in place of them in one place to concentrate. As a result, the battery part of the chassis, and they can carry their energy supply to the nearest engine, for example, an electric motor in a wheel. Besides regenerative energy is also thought to solar cells. Be tricky with nachtraces of course.
AeroPlasmadynamica
The flat bottom of current Formula 1 cars is silly, says McLaren. Ground Effect may return of the men from Woking, and so has opted for huge Venturi tunnels for optimal suction power to the asphalt. Also, there is thought to be active aerodynamics, which in a bend, for example, more downforce is available, while the straight parts of the understand all the downforce away would need to fall for as much speed as possible. A type of DRS 8.0.
McLaren thinks of high-tech gadgets, which in turns the air around the wings to convert into plasma, for extra downforce. This costs a lot of power but in the future it is possible, think McLaren. In addition, the shape of the car is adjustable by electric currents by “adaptive shape”-metal pumps. This would make the car shape can change, for example, for optimal slipstream or just for extreme downforce in a turn.
Also, Check out this video on Autojunk.nl.
Gallery: McLaren MP4-X Concept 2016
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