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[FerrariF60]

In my opinion, the greatest benefit comes from the removal of the central actuator. Less drag and cleaner airflow over the wing.

but instead you now have 2 bulky actuators, on on each side of the wing; so which scenario is better?

[.poz]

but instead you now have 2 bulky actuators, on on each side of the wing; so which scenario is better?

Intuitively, I’d say that two bulges in structures that are already present are more efficient than a third structure... but I also know that aerodynamics is often counter-intuitive.

[dialtone]

Was watching this as well…

So the exhaust winglet and the rotating wing work together on this.

Yeah nobody is copying this for the season.

[aberracus]

Was watching this as well…

So the exhaust winglet and the rotating wing work together on this.

Yeah nobody is copying this for the season.

Ferrari needs to have this wing for Melbourne .

[LM10]

Was watching this as well…

So the exhaust winglet and the rotating wing work together on this.

Yeah nobody is copying this for the season.

Depending on the amount of changes needed to the individual concepts and considering we’re in a budget cap era, maybe not even next season.

Ferrari’s blown diffuser was likely the result of years of work which already started on the cars of the last couple of years when they step by step shrink wrapped the gearbox housing and positioned it far rearwards. To copy this basically the whole car needs to change - chassis, gearbox position, differential position, driveshaft position, PU concept.

[Holm86]

How would the fail-safe operate on this wing? Its operation is almost certainly electric. If the electric power is disrupted, how would the wing return to the cornering mode?

That could be easily solved by spring loading it, if the electrics fail it's forced back to high DF position

[dialtone]

Depending on the amount of changes needed to the individual concepts and considering we’re in a budget cap era, maybe not even next season.

Ferrari’s blown diffuser was likely the result of years of work which already started on the cars of the last couple of years when they step by step shrink wrapped the gearbox housing and positioned it far rearwards. To copy this basically the whole car needs to change - chassis, gearbox position, differential position, driveshaft position, PU concept.

To copy that you certainly need to do quite a bit of work and spend some capital to remake your rear, so at minimum it would probably balance the wind tunnel time penalty given for winning, since then you are spending time on something they already researched.

[AR3-GP]

One potential downside to this wing is that reducing the downforce at the rear too much could increase the tire wear on the straights. The PU has a lot of torque. You need some downforce to stop the rear wheels from slipping.

[cplchanb]

So in total for preseason ferrari brought a new rear wing, floor, monkey seat and exhaust blocking flap thing. Anything else?
Didnt they say the Bahrain car would look dramatically different from Barcelona?

[sucof]

So in total for preseason ferrari brought a new rear wing, floor, monkey seat and exhaust blocking flap thing. Anything else?
Didnt they say the Bahrain car would look dramatically different from Barcelona?

Who are the "they"?

[organic]

So in total for preseason ferrari brought a new rear wing, floor, monkey seat and exhaust blocking flap thing. Anything else?
Didnt they say the Bahrain car would look dramatically different from Barcelona?

New front wing as well.

[yallkok]

[Shakeman]

Ferrari's choice of turbo appears to have advantages for the start but does it also have an advantage for pitstops and safety car restarts?

If, as is suggested by the drivers, that overtaking is difficult then the three key phases above could be absolutely critical and if the choice of turbo size assists pitstops and restarts it's an inspired choice by Ferrari.

If this should go in the Team Thread maybe a mod could move it over please?

[Brahmal]

Another interesting thing about this wing are the three little "feet" on the bottom edge of 2nd element. When closed, they look like regular slot-gap separators, but seem to split halfway as the wing opens up leaving 6 small stubs; 3 on the trailing edge of first element and 3 on the now trailing edge of the 2nd element due to the rotating wing. These will create small but probably significant vortices that would be unavailable to a more traditional wing opening mechanism. I'm not smart enough to say what effect these might have, and how they would interact with the exhaust-flap upwash, but something tells me this is no accident!

[Kalsi]

Onboard 1:31:992 lap by Charles on this last day of testing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTP_wjZgGZs

To me it looks like he sandbagged A LOT before starting the lap, he accellerated to full throttle/deployed all energy way after the last corner just before the "drs" line on the finish straight