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McLaren's Key details main Mercedes engine installation challenges
McLaren technical director James Key says the integration of Mercedes' power unit with the team's MCL35 chassis left his engineering department with multiple challenges and complexities to solve. Formula 1's cost-saving regulations forced on teams a mandatory carry-over of last year's chassis. But as the only outfit on the grid undergoing a power unit change, McLaren's undertaking was certainly more complicated than the adaptation process faced by its rivals. Such was the extent of the changes impacting the rear end of McLaren's MCL35 that it was forced to spend both its development tokens on the transformation of its chassis to accommodate the car's new unit, a conversion that included...
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