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Tech Talk: A closer look at McLaren's upgraded MP4-30

Pressure continues to pile on McLaren and Honda as their burgeoning relationship has failed to deliver in 2015 so far. In Austria the team arrived with a raft of aerodynamic updates for the MP4-30 in order to both rectify inefficiencies and boost performance. The updates were only available for one car and so Fernando Alonso had them on his car, as Jenson Button took an upgrade earlier than him at the start of the season. Meanwhile, Honda introduced reliability upgrades to the RA615-H but focused their attention on their current weakness: ERS, in an attempt to increase drive-ability and more importantly power. The most prominent element of the update package is the new nose, which replaces...
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