He's already done a rudimentary CFD review which is consistent with the behavior shown here. Total pressure on the face of the rear tire is reduced on the Ferrari design compared with the other design. It's apparent looking at the water spray in the live feeds. One car is slapping water straight at the rear tire quite violently. The impact of the spray on the rear tire of the Ferrari looks much less violent.deadhead wrote: ↑08 Oct 2022, 04:42https://i.ibb.co/rQ5Rsfv/Fee-GTif-WIAAm-TVd.jpg
Maybe Vanja can tell us more
Yes, that is one of the more important aerodynamic roles of wide sidepods, along with structural stiffening of the floor without adding extra weight to it.101FlyingDutchman wrote: ↑08 Oct 2022, 11:56On the Ferrari that wake is clearly pushed outboards to the edge of the rear tyre. The Merc hasn’t done that all. It’s hitting the rear tyre head on. There hardly seems any airflow management to keep the diffuser away from lossy turbulent airflow.
Yep to me Sainz's car looked as smooth as the Red Bull.
Sainz car always is better in our eyes because he has always a bit more rear wing from Leclerc. That's why Leclerc is always a tiny bit faster. Max is doing the same in comparison to Perez. It needs ability to drive like this fast and consistent throw a race and that's why this 2 guys stand up from all the rest.
What? This weekend it's the opposite. Sainz is running less wing by far than leclerc this weekend. Sainz and Charles are almost matched on laptime but Charles loses 0.3s to Sainz on the straights. Duchessa has confirmed in an article that Charles runs with higher df this weekendbluechris wrote: ↑08 Oct 2022, 20:43Sainz car always is better in our eyes because he has always a bit more rear wing from Leclerc. That's why Leclerc is always a tiny bit faster. Max is doing the same in comparison to Perez. It needs ability to drive like this fast and consistent throw a race and that's why this 2 guys stand up from all the rest.
Good to be vindicated(yet again) isn't it Vanja .Vanja #66 wrote: ↑08 Oct 2022, 15:09Yes, that is one of the more important aerodynamic roles of wide sidepods, along with structural stiffening of the floor without adding extra weight to it.101FlyingDutchman wrote: ↑08 Oct 2022, 11:56On the Ferrari that wake is clearly pushed outboards to the edge of the rear tyre. The Merc hasn’t done that all. It’s hitting the rear tyre head on. There hardly seems any airflow management to keep the diffuser away from lossy turbulent airflow.
It's possible that with rain anticipated, Ferrari are running higher ride heights. It's also suggested above that the new floor is optimized around greater ground clearance.
They already detect the problems with tyre degradation in wet FP1 & 2.organic wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 16:19The car ate the tyres in the wet. Similar to Imola, but worse in terms of degradation. Look at right front of Leclerc compared to others:
https://i.imgur.com/2QIgxBg.png
other comparison
https://i.imgur.com/7qKu3sY.png
Compared to RB:
https://i.imgur.com/ffy0uRH.png
The rears are also bad, with almost no tread in the central section for the F1-75
Maybe they went with a drier setup than if the weather prediction was more stable, but still tricky