Stu wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 08:09
ANDY238 wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 04:40
Red bull sidepods
The airflow entering from the side of the sidepod appears to bypass the cooling mechanism and exit directly from the rear.
In this photo, you can finally see the pass-through duct.
Brake reservoir located in side-pod!?
Not sure about the routing, if that is the case it could be used for battery/ECU cooling or as a thermal barrier between exhaust & cooling system - essentially still a through-flow device or maybe is are feed for the lower heat exchanger?
The lower heat exchanger outlet ducting looks to be a ‘mighty fine’ way to support the floor…
Looks like one, doesn't it.
A few posts back I put observation about brake setup on front bulkhead going to a single "pot" reservoir and with mastercylinder arrangement no longer visible through that bulkhead.
It's possible that the primary mastercylinder has gone from traditional two separate with mechanical balance adjustment to a single concentric type with parity split fixed at that location, to then facilitate bias adjust only through software via BBW installation in modulation of whole rear sector of brakes.
That would mean it would default (mandatory hydraulic actuation for rear) to that fixed ratio in the event of BBW failure situation. In reality a small risk, but manageable in reality.
The reservoir is obviously to keep hydraulic fluid level against brake pad wear dimension, logical that it could facilitate rear system from that location as front feed "toggle" line would just be command to BBW system, with no need to refill volume in that line.
All this would remove equipment from that front cross section, give more mass centralisation etc to this chassis iteration.