Mercedes W17

[gromajor]

the principles of the aerodynamics on the rear is completely different from the red bull.
both of them are very tight.
but that's reminiscent of their cars philosophies before 2022 :
=> the mercedes with long side pods guiding the air quite horizontally towards the rear
=> the red bull with short side pods pulling the air downwards towards the rear

I must say also the step after the side pods inlets (which looks strange / not fluid enough to me, but I'm no aerodynamicist) makes me wonder if this car would not be again a temporary car for the beginning of the tests.

[HungarianRacer]

Mercedes is in LOVE with that airbox geometry. Introduced in 2016, 10 years ago (W07), Virtually unchanged since 2018 (W09)...

[Badger]

The sidepod is sculpted on top but the packaging and cooling seems rather conventional overall. Nothing as exciting as the zeropod put it that way. Push rod on both axles, no anti-dive. Remains to be seen if this is the real deal or just bait. Probably a mix of both.

[FNTC]

Sidepods look different than the others so far, as they go up towards the back and end at the exhaust, while other cars so far have them going down to the floor at the back.

[vorticism]

Double pushrod again. Very shallow angle on the rear pushrod versus the front.

[wiktor977]

Sidepods look different than the others so far, as they go up towards the back and end at the exhaust, while other cars so far have them going down to the floor at the back.
https://img.lightshot.app/Z2-HZU79R8yUoNH6D5LIcw.png

Which makes more sense since there is no beam wing like before, and you open more space for clean aiflow to go towards the top of the diffuser

[HungarianRacer]

By the way, in one render we see a front wing endplate with a small upwashing winglet, then it's a massive downwasing one in the next... Yeah, in my view, these images are about as credible as the first batch pictures we got of the W13 back in 2022...





A quick reminder:

[Stu]

https://i.postimg.cc/ZYrc0FPS/Mercedes-tyre-sensor.jpg

That's a pretty extraordinary place to put the tyre temperature sensor

Maybe, but the FW endplate/footplate detail inboard is interesting.

[Stu]

By the way, in one render we see a front wing endplate with a small upwashing winglet, then it's a massive downwasing one in the next... Yeah, in my view, these images are about as credible as the first batch pictures we got of the W13 back in 2022...

https://i.imgur.com/yylTDpP.png

https://i.imgur.com/WkiehcE.jpeg

A quick reminder:

https://cdn-4.motorsport.com/images/amp ... 022-2.webp

Imgur images not working for UK users, but in the ones that I can see the endplate canard is very twisted across its length, downwash at the endplate, upwash at the free end.
I can see some logic to that.

[yinlad]

By the way, in one render we see a front wing endplate with a small upwashing winglet, then it's a massive downwasing one in the next... Yeah, in my view, these images are about as credible as the first batch pictures we got of the W13 back in 2022...

https://i.imgur.com/yylTDpP.png

https://i.imgur.com/WkiehcE.jpeg

A quick reminder:

https://cdn-4.motorsport.com/images/amp ... 022-2.webp

It’s the same. It tapers towards the end plate face which is why it appears to downwash in the second image.

[HungarianRacer]

Imgur images not working for UK users, but in the ones that I can see the endplate canard is very twisted across its length, downwash at the endplate, upwash at the free end.
I can see some logic to that.

Sorry, didn't know that, fixed!

It’s the same. It tapers towards the end plate face which is why it appears to downwash in the second image.

I think you are both right.
We'll soon see how much truth is in these images anyways.

[ma9mwah]

Imgur images not working for UK users, but in the ones that I can see the endplate canard is very twisted across its length, downwash at the endplate, upwash at the free end.
I can see some logic to that.

Sorry, didn't know that, fixed!

For any UK users like myself, there are multiple plugins for all the major browsers that will proxy the imgur images to another host so that you can see them.

[FW17]

Could be having one of these underneath

[AR3-GP]

W15 sidepod inlet
W14 sidepod
No front brake duct
Primordial front wing

This is a livery launch.

[Luscion]

Sidepods look similar to the render



14mins of it being filmed from a drone