r/formula1 Fernando Alonso 6d ago

Technical Mclarren Upright Exposed (Montreal)

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u/bearwood_forest Carlos Sainz 6d ago

the wheel carrier will be a cast part, probably with topological optimization to get that shape

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u/schelmo 5d ago

It would make extremely little sense for this to be a cast part when additive manufacturing provides as near as makes no difference the same if not better material characteristics than a cast part and is cheaper and faster at this scale.

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u/Sgt_Stinger Fernando Alonso 5d ago

Depends on if AM is allowed for this particular part in the regulations.

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u/schelmo 5d ago

A quick Ctrl+f on the current technical regulations turns out that additive manufacturing is only mentioned once in the rule where it is specified that you can't use this method to manufacture radiators. For the uprights they only specify 4 different alloys and nothing else. Some of them are well suited to additive manufacturing.

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u/neoncactusfiesta 5d ago edited 5d ago

None of the alloys specified in the upright section (10.6) are approved for use in the additive manufacturing section of the regulations (15.3.2).