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On the same day as the team revealed a show car in its new 2022 Williams livery, the British team have unleashed the new, metallic blue FW44 out on track at Silverstone for a shakedown.
It was used in the Hurricane and Spitfire too, before the P-51 ever existed (well before WW2 existed, in fact), although the P-51 did take it further than either of those earlier planes did.godlameroso wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 19:10Big inlet little outlet, maybe they're trying to exploit the Meridth effect that was used on the P51D Mustang's radiators.
The only reason you would want a small inlet is if your body behind the inlet is limiting your size, i.e. you'd sacrifice external drag for getting the inlet larger. That does not seem to be the case with the sidepod designs, and Williams is the only team that seems to be fully aware of that tradeoff. The reason is that external diffusion of flow via blockage effects, using a generous inlet compared to the outlet, is much more efficient than internal diffusion through a diffuser combined with a small inlet. Also, with good pressure recovery, there can be some Meredith effect indeed, but the most important thing is that the air exiting the cooling outlet will be faster, and the outlet smaller if you get the pressure recovery sorted out well, which will help with getting more high energy air into the area of the rear wing and beam wing/diffuser.godlameroso wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 19:10Big inlet little outlet, maybe they're trying to exploit the Meridth effect that was used on the P51D Mustang's radiators.
I think that the darker spot is a crash structure "bump" similar to the one McLaren has, given that the car is blue it looks very dark/black as it is at a different angle to the light.
