Red Bull RB16B

[Just_a_fan]

To me it indeed looks like a sort of a tunnel, look how also the front wing planes now line up with the rear side of that bulge.

It's nothing new - other teams do similar and have done for some time. Indeed, this sort of detail was seen on the previous complex wings too.

[Just_a_fan]

I think it's to create vertices to reduce drag.

Do they cause more air disruption for a car that’s following? It would seem a host of vortices pouring off the back of the car would wreak havoc for the following car. Is this an “defensive” type of aero in addition to drag reduction?

They just spin like mini tornadoes. Like the little flip up on plane wings. They also reduce drag.

The winglets on aircraft wings are reducing the tip vortices and hence the associated drag.

[diffuser]

Do they cause more air disruption for a car that’s following? It would seem a host of vortices pouring off the back of the car would wreak havoc for the following car. Is this an “defensive” type of aero in addition to drag reduction?

They just spin like mini tornadoes. Like the little flip up on plane wings. They also reduce drag.

The winglets on aircraft wings are reducing the tip vortices and hence the associated drag.

I presume it's the same thing as when Merc put the teeth on the serrate rear wing ...


https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/merc ... n/4375718/


The benefits of the serrated edge are plenty. By making the wing work harder, they allow a steeper angle of attack before airflow separation occurs. At the same time, the span of the surface appears improved, reducing the tip vortex strength and reducing drag.

Furthermore, the small vortices that the sawtooth design creates help re-energise the airflow, making the main plane of the wing perform more consistently when the DRS is opened.

[Sieper]

To me it indeed looks like a sort of a tunnel, look how also the front wing planes now line up with the rear side of that bulge.

It's nothing new - other teams do similar and have done for some time. Indeed, this sort of detail was seen on the previous complex wings too.

Yes, indeed, almost all the iterations we have seen have brought back solutions we saw in the past (and gone back om them) and reintroduced them slightly differently.

[trinidefender]

I think it's to create vertices to reduce drag.

Do they cause more air disruption for a car that’s following? It would seem a host of vortices pouring off the back of the car would wreak havoc for the following car. Is this an “defensive” type of aero in addition to drag reduction?

They just spin like mini tornadoes. Like the little flip up on plane wings. They also reduce drag.

You're contradicting yourself. Generating vortices creates drag. Energy has to be taken out of the car to create the vortex.

[PhillipM]

It's a case of taking energy out locally but you can still gain in overall design efficiency if it makes things work more consistantly or lets you generate more downforce under the floor, etc.

[pierrre]

Really nice angle of FW...

evolving towards alfa romeo's front wing design which was introduced when they launched their car, some clever aerodynamics research in that swiss camp..maybe the flat lower surface from the inner section of the main wing and how it cuts into that curved surface...if there was an angle inwards, would certainly initiate an earlier vortex spiral

[marcush]

The new front wings main plane is substantially thicker by the looks of things ? at least towards the regulated middle section , near the endplates its hard to judge .

[TimW]

The new front wings main plane is substantially thicker by the looks of things ? at least towards the regulated middle section , near the endplates its hard to judge .

In the front view they seem pretty similar:

Third new front wing in the last 5 races - used by Verstappen only.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5ddj1hWQAs ... name=large

[marcush]

The new front wings main plane is substantially thicker by the looks of things ? at least towards the regulated middle section , near the endplates its hard to judge .

In the front view they seem pretty similar:

Third new front wing in the last 5 races - used by Verstappen only.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5ddj1hWQAs ... name=large

the newest iteration pic has a significantly lower pov so not easy to compare ...the lighting might be misleading , but it seems the leading edge has a bigger radius ...eyeballjudgement from a few pics can be very misleading ...as we interpret what we want to see ...

[GOAT]

Helps keep the airflow attached…

… because of the increased contact surface area.

In layman’s term, there is more carbon to interact with the airflow.

.. it energises the airstream and stops it detaching as harshly.

Because there’ more carbon to interact with the airflow.

[Sevach]

RW from the French GP is back.
I always suspected it would be the standard choice.

[dxpetrov]

It means they are very confident with their downforce levels. I predict total annihilation.

[Sevach]

"Naked" under nose area.

[DarthPlagueisTheVise]

Revised floor for Red Bull with new deflectors ahead of rear wheel