F1 McLaren.

Cover the wheels.

An open-wheel car spends an enormous fraction of its drag budget on four spinning cylinders in clean air, and an enormous fraction of its danger budget on an exposed driver's head. Both are traditions rather than requirements.

This concept takes them both away. The wheels are brought inside faired bodywork that flows into the chassis, and the cockpit gets a canopy — the shape the sport has been circling for years. What is left over is the interesting part: with the wheels enclosed, the aero surfaces migrate outboard onto the fairings themselves, so the wings are no longer bolted-on planks but continuations of the body.

The exposed pushrod suspension is deliberately left visible through the gap between fairing and tub. It is the one piece of raw mechanism the design keeps, and it stops the car reading as a smooth shell with nothing underneath.

Track and studio.

Five track frames in circuit light, and four studio plates against the team's papaya.