{"id":324940,"date":"2025-08-07T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:29:10","slug":"how-f1-teams-balanced-cooling-and-downforce-in-hungary-and-where-mclaren-made-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324940\/","title":{"rendered":"How F1 teams balanced cooling and downforce in Hungary \u2013 and where McLaren made the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Hungaroring presents a potentially tricky combination of demands, given that it\u2019s a track which heavily rewards raw downforce but which can have very high cooling demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The combination of a Budapest summer with the relative lack of straight-line running, plus long corners where the front wheels are on lock for a long time, diverting airflow away from the radiator inlets, means that the bodywork will have to be opened up extensively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">This extracts a high cost aerodynamically. So, the conflict in demands and the jeopardy involved in trying to maximise performance, is quite explicit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hungaroring presents a potentially tricky combination of demands, given that it\u2019s a track which heavily rewards raw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}