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I love how Merc got rid of the mirror wings and just decided to attach the mirrors to the side crash structureSmallSoldier wrote:A few more pictures:
If the suggestions that the reason why the sidepods are so small (inexistent?) is because part of the cooling / radiators are inside the tub and that they are using some “black magic” (chemical cooling or something else) to reduce the footprint of the radiators… This solution won’t be easy to copy, not in a short time frame at least… Not only that, as always in F1, everything works as a whole, so it wouldn’t be just a matter of reducing the sidepods for someone trading to copy them (I’m sure this type of arrangement, has it’s compromises also, which need to be understood in order to minimize their impact)ringo wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022, 08:22
Where are the doubters now?
They were really hard at work over the 2021 year.
As much as the body work looks radical, this design can be copied by all of the teams.
But it is a nice head start. That floor will be sucked to the ground now with that downwash from the front of the sidepods creating an air curtain.
Will the suspension work with this kind of downforce though? more porpoising?!
I like it. A lot to look at and digest.
Isn’t the fuel tank a spec part?ringo wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022, 08:30Did the rear suspension change to pushrod?
I was hinting at this earlier, but I guess it was too crazy to believe. Also did not want to give away the game when I want this team to do well. The coolers are invading the fuel tank space.
But how Mercedes achieve this is with a long chassis. You put the coolers in the side, lengthen the fuel tank to ensure the 100kg tank volume is maintained. Lengthen the car enough that the hot air can escape as well.
The team are not using any fancy liquid for cooling i suspect. The car is long and the radiators are actually still normal sized. I suspect the coolers are angled very narrowly and the air just flows through the cavity under the tub.