For a couple of years this appears to be the most poorly engineered piece of the RB cars.
For a couple of years this appears to be the most poorly engineered piece of the RB cars.
Any modification to the power unit can only be carried by Honda. Adding an air to water setup similar to the HPD's imsa engine is something that will need changes to be made to the intake manifold which can only be carried out by Honda.AR3-GP wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 23:17That is pretty heavy speculation that you are posting.Scorpion19 wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 16:58Apparently, the RB19 moved from an air-air intercooler to an air-2-cooler.
Red Bull and HPD are independent companies. There would not have been any tech transfer. Red Bull don't need HPD to do a new inter-cooler design of they wanted to do one.
The intercoolers are not part of the power unit. Mclaren and Mercedes have very different intercooler arrangement because of this fact.EJ22B wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 01:10Any modification to the power unit can only be carried by Honda. Adding an air to water setup similar to the HPD's imsa engine is something that will need changes to be made to the intake manifold which can only be carried out by Honda.AR3-GP wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 23:17That is pretty heavy speculation that you are posting.Scorpion19 wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 16:58Apparently, the RB19 moved from an air-air intercooler to an air-2-cooler.
Red Bull and HPD are independent companies. There would not have been any tech transfer. Red Bull don't need HPD to do a new inter-cooler design of they wanted to do one.
I agree with you, here's my drawing of what the sidepod looks like:ringo wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 22:10I think the car does not have a simpler sidepod like scarbs suggested. The side wash ridge or hump on top of the sidepod, that aston martin copied, is very much still there and even more aggressive.Scorpion19 wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 16:58Apparently, the RB19 moved from an air-air intercooler to an air-2-cooler.
Also it seems the sidepods have less undercut and that's where the bigger flank may be true. It's all hard to tell.
I do agree with the other stuff like the front wing etc. I think the front wing changes are because of the increased height for the floor edge.
For some reason, I feel redbull will go extreme on cooling with this car and have some reliability issues. It seems unlike them to go conservative and have an RB18b.
Looks a lot like a Ferrari sidepod in front view? Way less undercut than last year and round inlet lip. From the side pretty similar to the RB18
I reckon they've done something interesting with the cannon shelf section. It looks as though it cuts in tight early on to allow for more space on the top of the sidepod to downwash. The general shape of the sidepod looks similar to last year to me, maybe slightly more bulky in the old undercut region
Replied to something you said in Alpine thread.
This car is going to be even faster on the straights!organic wrote: ↑14 Feb 2023, 03:48Replied to something you said in Alpine thread.
could be wrong but I think RB are doing something slightly different to what Alpine & AMR seem to both be doing. RB have a floating sidepod almost. Their sidepod is out at legality for the "slabby" portion but all the way along the sidepod there is a substantial undercut.
This continuous undercut was of course an rb18 feature and was apparent when the sidepod was viewed from the front
https://cdn-4.motorsport.com/images/mgl ... deta-1.jpg
But i feel maybe this feature is exaggerated on the rb19:
https://i.imgur.com/gtJxvJl.png
It's also something that other teams such as alpine and AMR who are opting for slab pods haven't adopted for '23. Even McLaren who have a sidepod that has the downwashing crease also doesn't adopt this extra undercut