Hockenheim - The tail fin is back hyp! EXPRESS discovered Silverstone winner Lewis Hamilton (23) when tested at Hockenheim in a new silver arrow. Oops!
Like the legendary line-astern the tips on the trunk lid stands at McLaren-Mercedes MP4-23 which extended to the rear engine cover in the eye.
An aerodynamic trick to calm the airflow to the rear wing and to achieve greater downforce on the rear axle. The downside: It's not a Mercedes-invention! The engineers of the Anglo-German race team rather copied the Red Bull!
A silver arrow, which looks like the raging energy drink can?
Fact! The 2008 McLaren is indeed next to the Ferrari is the fastest car in the field, but you look from the competition obviously possible improvements.
This time, "stole" the McLaren engineers, even in an ex-colleague: Adrian Newey. The Designguru (his cars took twelve World Cup title for Williams and McLaren's) invented the tail fin in the winter, leaving Mark Webber in the so-dressed RB4, commencing on 1 February in Barcelona on the runway.
It worked: The Red Bull racing cars were always faster, Webber won by the sensational 2nd Takeoff at Silverstone not only because of bad luck in the race podium. And the competition is busily copying: In Mercedes "screwed" even Renault, Force India and Toro Rosso a "tail fin" to the car.
