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Neil Oatley: designing World Championships with McLaren
F1: Beyond The Grid
The FWA06 Didn't Go in a Wind Tunnel
The FWA06 didn't go in a wind tunnel, so how do you decide upon the shape of the car? That's all Patrick's work, and it was his intuition really. We did an initial test at Donington, and it had a few slight quirks going over Brows. It just took a little bit of tuning to get the car right, and then it was very quick straight away. Unfortunately it arrived a few races into the season, andIt was a little bit unreliable for the first couple of events, so I think if we put it really a little bit earlier, it probably would have won the championship. "We were slightly fortunate because suddenly turbo cars had an unrel
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