Ok)) you believe merc stopped to work on current car, i think they work on current car very actively. The things I was trying to say - not everything could be photographed, also photographers from media are not engineers. How, f.e. you could make a photo of the ice chamber, or how could you see the change of materials used through the photo. No way you could see that. And not forget, we are talking about thousands. Every gp stage the car is different. Even every session except parc de ferme (also some changes could be done)

The attention to details is so extreme that even in late 90's McLaren was experimenting the paintings with variable wind resistance. Depending on the track position the electrodes actuated the body panels and through electricity changed the painting behavior (that tweak came from aviation, airbus, boeing and their partners invest tons of money to decrease the fuel consumption. Simply in case of aviation the life cycles are much longer due to higher risks)


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