Within the final version of Tech Weekly we mentioned how McLaren dramatically overturned Purple Bull’s dominance in 2024 from the Miami Grand Prix onwards and the way it was completed. The benefit of the Purple Bull’s extra subtle aerodynamics – the foundation of the workforce’s record-breaking kind within the earlier two seasons – was greater than overcome by McLaren’s mastery of the best way to apply aero-elasticity to its entrance wing.
In unblocking the most important aerodynamic bottleneck of this era of automotive, McLaren leapfrogged previous the extra subtle Purple Bull in a single spectacular transfer. Purple Bull have been unable to reply due to the price cap and different useful resource implications.
However till then, Purple Bull had remained one step forward of the opposition for greater than two seasons. Right here, we overview how they did it, how that period was delivered to an finish so instantly and the way that poses an intriguing query for 2025.
