Impressive packaging is indeed a matter of perspective:
What evidence do you have other than the livery on the car?
The beam wing out of RBR is definitely something. They're on the territory of double or triple mini diffusors. Whereas everybody has gone to more extreme solutions, Alpine with especially Merc has gone to a more conventional route. This doesn't mean they are wrong though, remains to be seen.
But is anyone getting it wrong or just different?
... Though I doubt there's anything special in the RB18's flow field that'd make it's unique beam wing uncopiable or unviable for others... I don't think they'd have showed it before the Bahrain test If it was something uber special...F1Krof wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 14:01The beam wing out of RBR is definitely something. They're on the territory of double or triple mini diffusors. Whereas everybody has gone to more extreme solutions, Alpine with especially Merc has gone to a more conventional route. This doesn't mean they are wrong though, remains to be seen.
There can only be 1 "perfect" solution to a set of circumstance.Shakeman wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 14:04But is anyone getting it wrong or just different?
With such a wide variety of approaches says to me there's not one single obvious solution and just many ways to skin this particular cat.
How much worse would a faceted house brick be compared to each design? How much time difference is there in these upper body designs?
We're not dealing with properly conditioned linear systems hereZynerji wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 14:09There can only be 1 "perfect" solution to a set of circumstance.Shakeman wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 14:04But is anyone getting it wrong or just different?
With such a wide variety of approaches says to me there's not one single obvious solution and just many ways to skin this particular cat.
How much worse would a faceted house brick be compared to each design? How much time difference is there in these upper body designs?
Every solution other than that will simply cap earlier in development.
We won't know probably until race 14-15 of whose path is longest.
Enjoy the show!