Haas VF-23

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Ah, if only...

https://i.ibb.co/dQCQRP0/Fos-Jyq-XWAAE-M0-U.jpg

Damn, that looks so much better

Reminds me of f2

[lio007]

Do I see pitot tubes on the Palm Angels Logo?
I thought aero measuring is strictly forbidden during shakedowns?

[Goblin42]

She's carrying an Aerorake sensor package behind the front suspension and some kiel probes above the tunnel entrance and on the rear wing

[Vanja #66]

Reminds me of f2

It's close to pre-2017 lengths, but without the ridiculous high RW...

[continuum16]

Surprised they got rid of the wavy front wing end plates while Sauber have gone the opposite direction.

[Goblin42]

[Blackout]

Maybe Haas moved that cooler away -blue arrow- (to put it inside sidpods like Ferrari tends to do?) then shrinkwrapped the bodywork further. That could explain the even tighter engine cover + the even smaller roll hoop intake + the big bulge at the rear
2022- Sky - AMuS

[f1316]

Is it fair to speculate from that gearbox hump that Ferrari have looked to move up the positioning of the gearbox (although seemingly without switching to push rod at the back, perhaps with higher pick up points)?

Seems like this must be about creating more space underneath it - presumably two fold: (i) the expansion of the underfloor in this area (ii) space for the over floor airflow coming of the coke bottle?

I may be talking rubbish, so folks with actual aerodynamic knowledge please let me know

[wogx]

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Is it fair to speculate from that gearbox hump that Ferrari have looked to move up the positioning of the gearbox (although seemingly without switching to push rod at the back, perhaps with higher pick up points)?

Seems like this must be about creating more space underneath it - presumably two fold: (i) the expansion of the underfloor in this area (ii) space for the over floor airflow coming of the coke bottle?

I may be talking rubbish, so folks with actual aerodynamic knowledge please let me know

If you compare the vf-22 to the vf-23 the difference is more that the engine cover and airbox is massively slimmed down revealing the hump, rather than the hump appearing from already slim bodywork.

In other words we cannot conclude anything about the location of gearbox from existence of hump

It's likely the hump is there due to ferrari's wastegate placement and now visible from shrinkwrapping the bodywork after ditching centre-line cooling rather than anything else

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What is the gain in leaking air from one side to the other over the bulge/under sharkfin? I assume that works only while the car is cornering. A more extreme concept might be better in any case?

https://wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/cb59e1449 ... 0d58fb.png

This image is inexplicably edited to appear as though the car has a more slotted sharkfin than it does.

As for the gain of this arrangement: I was under the impression that it was a good place to put extra cooling outlets. And then they put the sharkfin above the cooling outlets just because that is possible within the regs. If you zoom in on a vf-23 image you can see the engine cover underneath the sharkfin is slotted with cooling louvres again just as last year

So I believe the logic is more: given I'm going to be placing cooling louvres here, is there benefit to placing a sharkfin on stilts above it, and Haas saw there was for their design

RB also adopted this idea with a slot in line with their sharkfin at mexico and Singapore for cooling when they particularly needed it

[Holm86]

[wogx]

[Jordaann10]

https://twitter.com/f1dataanalysis/stat ... lexISw4FFA

Would anyone have an idea why the carbon fibre weave selected for the last two sidepod cooling louvers is different to the rest?

[JordanMugen]

The VF-23 reminds me of the days when we would eagerly await the new Compaq or HP BMW Williams, only to find it doesn't look much different to the old Winfield, Compaq or HP Williams (so 2000, 2001, 2002).

Is it fair to say, however, that the VF-23 is bigger step from the VF-22 than meets the eye, rather than just detail and refinement work from the previous VF-22 and Ferrari F1-75?