Sorry, no I mean the push-rods lol, To me they look kinked in the top render, The upper and lower sections don’t seem to align correctly where the wishbones cross.
maybe it’s just my eyesight… It has been a long day
Sorry, no I mean the push-rods lol, To me they look kinked in the top render, The upper and lower sections don’t seem to align correctly where the wishbones cross.
Which teams do you mean? No team returned to "normal" sidepods. In fact, only Mercedes was missing and this year they're finally going to have high sidepods too.
No, except Mercedes, they are all high sidepods. Ferrari had high side podes with two inlets. The differentiating factor between high and low is the main cooling intake is located above the upper crash structure (which is correspendingly shifted down) to make it higher.
I think Ferrari have been clever here. From the front, the sidepod entry looks small, but when viewed from the side, the top lip of the entry is behind the bottom lip. Air flow is encouraged down from above the chassis by the barge boards etc, so the air flow entering the sidepod is coming downwards to a small degree. The opening is thus larger in effect because it captures this flow more effectively than a simple "vertical" opening. It's not as extreme as previous top opening entries, but it's still there.HungarianRacer wrote: ↑11 Feb 2020, 20:13I actually think the intake itself is a bit wider (but also maybe a bit less deep), behind that, it's indeed extremely tight packaging... Can't wait to see how the new Merc and Red Bull compare.
PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑11 Feb 2020, 22:52So simplified side pod intake is surprising! I feel it had more to do with helping packaging further downstream. So it seems other teams in copying Ferrari's design actually found out its weakpoints. Fresh eyes.
The front section of the bargeboard resembles MacLaren.
Overall i like it. Mattia sounds very confident. I am actually worried now Ferrari will be a real threat to the end of the season.
Sevach wrote: ↑12 Feb 2020, 07:35Ferrari made a lot of detail changes that could yield good results.
From extending the nostrils to moving the vanes almost all the way to the FW...
Mercedes style push rod design and a more aggressive barge board using every trick in the book.
The most obvious change are the sidepods, with it's Red Bull like shape it should bring a nice downforce increase, closing the upper inlet proably gives better attachment on the top surface too.
I don't see this car as a mule just for the first days of testing, some things look "last year" quite literally (FW mainly), but overall i think this is the real deal and Australia spec isn't far at all.
Everything on this car, looks like a carbon copy from other cars last year