SiLo wrote: ↑08 Mar 2026, 14:56
Brahmal wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 04:36
AR3-GP wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 01:22
The Aston Martin is running the largest cooling exits by a long way. IT's strange because they are reportedly running 100hp down on an already very limited PU. Why do they need this much cooling?
OTOH their intake size is one of the smallest in the field. I think they are trying to create suction to pull air through the system, instead of pushing it in through bigger intakes. Alpine appears to have the opposite philosophy.
The engine is a pump, so it will be sucking in air at a huge rate. I don’t think they are doing anything other than getting more cooling for the engine and ancillaries.
From the images I see here, it appears that:
The top part of the roll hoop is the air intake for the ICE. It has its own pump called a compressor that sucks in air and forces it into the ICE through a radiator, and that air exits through the exhaust.
The lower part of the roll hoop seems to keep air outside the car, with no entrance.
Air from the sidepods goes through the radiators and exits through the flaps, which sometimes have louvers. There is also a 5–6 cm diameter entrance from the sidepods to under the PU cover to create airflow there.
The battery has its own cooling system, but I have no idea if it has its own radiator and or where that radfiator might be.
I presume it’s possible there is an entrance from the sidepods to the monocoque area, where the battery sits, to allow air to flow through there.