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F1: McLaren Takes Backup Bodywork To Bahrain
The McLaren team will be acting like boy scouts this week, prepared for anything...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted March 09, 2010   GMM Newswire
McLaren’s replacement for its 2009 car, the MP4-25, will get its first test at the beginning of February. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
The McLaren rear wing features an additional slot on the rear face of the flap. It's believed that this flap is fed with airflow from the inlet above the drivers head routed through the tail fin. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

McLaren has brought a spare bodywork package to Bahrain in case FIA inspectors deem its rear wing illegal prior to the 2010 season opener.

The British team's managing director Jonathan Neale said Tuesday he was disappointed a flight delay from Sao Paulo meant Charlie Whiting could not as scheduled inspect the MP4-25 at Woking before the first race of the season.

Instead, that inspection will take place at the Sakhir circuit Thursday, amid concerns from Red Bull and Ferrari that the intake of air to the rear wing via the air box through the engine cover might not conform to the rules.

Neale said the Woking based team is confident the controversial specification is legal, but has prepared another just in case.

"We're not taking a radically different package (to Bahrain) but you just never know what the stewards are going to do on the day," he told reporters in a teleconference.

"We get the best advice we can from the FIA in the interests of transparency. If the stewards decide on a different course of action, though, it's still our duty to go racing," said Neale.

"So we have a contingency, but I wouldn't put much effort into it and I'm not expecting it to be used," he added.

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