{"id":50581,"date":"2025-08-07T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:19:07","slug":"how-f1-teams-balanced-cooling-and-downforce-in-hungary-and-where-mclaren-made-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50581\/","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":50582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-50581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}