Why because that video confirms that Scarbs one, is not at all sure it's an axial compressor, he has absolutely no source, he saw some pictures online and decided to get some hits on an article claiming something he ABSOLUTELY DID NOT KNOW.
The series of events is simple, Scarbs was telling everyone for sure it was a Merc split turbo copy. A huge number of people for 3+ months speculated it was like a 2014 Ferrari with the turbo in the V, there was lots of guessing about it being a small radial or a axial, mixed flow, any other concept possible.
He went from definitely radial at the front, to definitely a fancy axial in the V, to half the forums he reads calling him an idiot for why specifically what he claimed(series of fans like most axials) wasn't possible, now all of a sudden it's in the V but he doesn't know what type of compressor it is. If he had a source, it wouldn't have changed information, he had no source, he had no information. He had spent months telling everyone exactly what it was, he got proved wrong, almost instantly an article pops up claiming something entirely different, something basically impossible(multi stage axial.. series of fans, single stage IS possible but not ideal at all).
What did I post about in relation to his claims? Was it that it couldn't be axial no, I was irked he posted definitively, using a description that wasn't possible. I said he had no source, he was proven wrong on his previous guess which he spouted as fact and he instantly posted another story he spouted as fact... which he has now backtracked on.
The timing, where he was, the likelyhood of getting a source on something like that at basically the same second he was proven wrong in widely seen pictures was all extremely unlikely.
I said then and I'll say again, if he posted it saying it was a guess, that he had no clue, that it could be a small radial or PERHAPS a SINGLE stage axial or some fancy axial Mclaren believe will get by the rules, fine. WHat I dislike is his posting one of his guesses as fact, then also other people presuming what he's said is definitely true. He was wrong about the Merc style turbo, he was wrong about a general multi stage axial, he's backtracked on both.
I hope Mclaren improve but, and the difference is HUGE here, in the video they actually claimed
sources (makes all the difference) were telling them the size zero is not some brilliant already epic chassis/aero combination that once the engine is up to full power will suddenly have the car competing at the front. The idea that any team now gets the aero bang on when it is completely redesigned is frankly laughable. If aero is a much bigger part of the difference to the teams at the front, it also suggests the engine is far closer to full power than people believe. This engine is not some magical engineering marvel. They've made extreme design choices that have limited it's output dramatically exactly as Ferrari did last year. A small compressor in the V is a bad way to go, at the front or at the back is simply better for energy harvesting and ultimate ICE output.
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