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Mercedes AMG F1 W04

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Mercedes AMG F1 W04

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Mercedes W04: tidied nose, coanda pods, pushrod front susp, revised roll hoop & vanes on the splitter
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What is this? The normal sidepod 'cooling fan thing' fit's the entire shape and size of the opening doesn't it?
This looks like the brake duck blower, i.e, smaller! What would this be cooling?
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KeiKo403 wrote: What is this? The normal sidepod 'cooling fan thing' fit's the entire shape and size of the opening doesn't it?
This looks like the brake duck blower, i.e, smaller! What would this be cooling?
That fan feeds a duct that curved around to cool the SECU
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elf341 wrote:It really does not look very different to W03 final spec. Are the sidepods even changed?

I'm hoping that they have a frong wing upgrade - still sporting BGP-style endplates.
You do realize they had a new Fw last year with new endplates ?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that nose was very low to the tarmac...looked as if it was going to scrape!
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Maybe they will have a heavily updated version for the final test like Red Bull last year, perhaps this first test is to try and get on top of the coanda and other issues.
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Doesn't look good enough to me!
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Anyone else notice a thin piece of CF connecting from the Monkey seat to the underside of the RW bucket?

What would this be for?
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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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Yeah i noticed that, at the minute I'm assuming its something to do with the filming?
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Huntresa wrote:
elf341 wrote:It really does not look very different to W03 final spec. Are the sidepods even changed?

I'm hoping that they have a frong wing upgrade - still sporting BGP-style endplates.
You do realize they had a new Fw last year with new endplates ?
Ah having checked just now you're right about the new 2012 endplates. For some strange reason I thought they were essentially unchanged. Certainly, they had been for near-on three years:

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What would be the benefit/point of that small thin piece of Carbon fibre that connects the Monkey seat to the Rear wings lower bucket?
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The extra opening in the roll hoop for gear-box cooling is gone?
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When people say that you can follow the lines of the RedBull like the air is...
Adrian Newey is "feeling" the path of the air and he can design it that way..

From the looks of it... it seems like all the designers at Merc felt was the pain in the ass from the last seasons results...

This thing looks ugly... But well... we can still hope for a good pace!
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