Alpine does a similar thing to their waterslide fence. Theirs is not 'straight' like AM or MCL but has that bulge
Very interesting! Even if I personally don't understand how the combination of vertical and horizontal intake is supposed to increase the high pressure zone and was rather afraid of the opposite, but that's why Kyle was an aerodynamicist at Mercedes and not me! If this is the case, it makes a lot of sense, but I'm surprised that nobody else has thought of it yet...
I also think this is a possible position for the s-duct outlet. They put outlets there before.f1rules wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 09:49Ok im completely out on a limp here. Could they open up the panel shown by jagunx51, just next to/behind the halo and let air in for to move the flow to a more desired location, the central diffuser, and combined with scarbs drawing, maybe they exit the vertical inlet flow there also. Could there be advantages in mixing those two, would the upper help pull the air from below faster?
I borrowed jagunx51's picture and artwork done by
Craig Scarborough
@ScarbsTech
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGcTYHgWQAA ... ame=medium
If you look at the floor it's the exact same one from last year down to the fixing locations. For the sidepods the mounting fixings and periphery interfaces are again the same, the mirrors are carry over, the halo interfaces are carry over.BorisTheBlade wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 22:04Gary Anderson has some Photographs of the side-pods:
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/red- ... dict-rb20/
I'm that old, that Mercedes' 2022 more or less triangle shaped sidepods reminded me of the 1991 Lambo 291matt21 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 10:34Am Im that old, that Ican remember the Jordan 195 racing?
http://brf1.com/goods_image/A3679_Z1.jpg
I’m going to say no otherwise I’m sure somebody would have already come up with it 2 years inFlying JPS Lotus wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 05:48Would something like this even be legal under the current regulations?RedNEO wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 02:51I immediately thought of this..organic wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 02:32
I am inclined to agree. Gary Anderson who was at the launch suggests something more radical at the nose may appear at Bahrain testing. The panel looks very makeshift and there is no cooling ducts on the nose like there usually are.
He also states that RB failed front crash tests and then would have a relatively uninteresting and long nose seems counterintuitive. Now Anderson isn't the highest authority but it's another voice of suspicion about the nose.
https://f1tcdn.net/gallery/var/resizes/ ... cn-102.jpg
Are those marks left by the rain, going into the vertical inlet? Are we seeing the air flow going in? Although I find this odd, they would probably have thoroughly cleaned the car before the presentation, how else do you explain those "stripes" there?f1rules wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 01:21looking at this, im unsure, if the nosecone goes all the way, it looks almost like an add on panel, the front part, on this picture
https://i.imgur.com/ArWpSGO.jpg
I think that's just part of how the floor connects to that part of the car, see here:Rikhart wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 11:52Are those marks left by the rain, going into the vertical inlet? Are we seeing the air flow going in? Although I find this odd, they would probably have thoroughly cleaned the car before the presentation, how else do you explain those "stripes" there?f1rules wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 01:21looking at this, im unsure, if the nosecone goes all the way, it looks almost like an add on panel, the front part, on this picture
https://i.imgur.com/ArWpSGO.jpg
I wrote something regarding the nose in the speculation thread... Was dismissed... But something is odd there...