Seems like they are indeed vertical inlets, Tobi Gruner has a pic showing them as well
Seems like they are indeed vertical inlets, Tobi Gruner has a pic showing them as well
....dialtone wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 20:08Why are you people saying that the vertical inlet is a mercedes thing? Vertical or horizontal is the smallest part of the work mercedes did which involved moving radiators and shaping the chassis to accomodate having small sidepods.
RB20 looks to have the same amount of sidepods. Fundamentally the car philosophy looks unchanged. Vertical or horizontal inlet is just a detail imho, the inlet itself is just a pipe.
Pretty sure the W15 inlets you're talking about are just bargeboards or whatever they're called in this gen of F1 cars.SICK AL SPEEDSHOP wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 22:07if you scroll down you can see an animation without intakes like on the pictures here and if you scroll down a bit more you can see W15 style intakes on the sidepods
https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/
Almost as it was split in twoLuscion wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 22:05Here's a clearer pic of the sidepods, i haven no clue whats going on with those inlets, looks tiny as hell from this pic
https://i.imgur.com/HjDvAMP.jpeg
?AR3-GP wrote:....dialtone wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 20:08Why are you people saying that the vertical inlet is a mercedes thing? Vertical or horizontal is the smallest part of the work mercedes did which involved moving radiators and shaping the chassis to accomodate having small sidepods.
RB20 looks to have the same amount of sidepods. Fundamentally the car philosophy looks unchanged. Vertical or horizontal inlet is just a detail imho, the inlet itself is just a pipe.
If you play with the 360 degree view, you can see that there is no vertical inlet, just a small step and structural change in the monocoque.SICK AL SPEEDSHOP wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 22:07if you scroll down you can see an animation without intakes like on the pictures here and if you scroll down a bit more you can see W15 style intakes on the sidepods
https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/