Sauber C31 Ferrari

[forty-two]

What's the bulge on the right hand side (left hand side of the car) of the airbox?

It appears to have an aerofoil shape while camera housings are supposed to be neutral.

Some sort of monitoring device perhaps?

[A13EX_f]

crash structure it lines up with the yellow sponsor decal at the top of the sidepod above the radiator opening

[Richard]

Looks like a sensor of some sort on the camera mount.

Alex - 42 is referring to the thing on the airbox

[bot6]

it's just some protective foam to cover the camera housing while they work on the car, probably so they don't hit the lens with something

[Owen.C93]

So is that rad vertical? It's been a while since we've seen that.

[Mr.G]

Where is the radiator? Wasn't it much bigger?

[Owen.C93]

This car is very strange, tiny sidepod inlets, vertical rads, winglets above sidepods, nice undercut but incredibly wide at the rear in stark contrast to the RBR philosophy of as much floor visible as possible.

They've always produced exciting cars so lets hope this one is fast as well.

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Radiator is like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynJWyNlgx8U (minute 3:03 - last year's car)

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Exhaust's path

[MIKEY_!]

I think it looks wider at the rear because they are trying to use air coming over the sidepods as much as air coming around them from the splitter. That's why they are lower than usual and slope downward even though that shape in isolation will produce lift. It makes using the Coanda effect to lower the exhaust stream easier too.

Probably explains (partly) why they added this sidepod winglet, the air that winglet interacts with is more important for the beam wing and maybe diffuser than if the car had 'common' sidepods.

[MIKEY_!]

RB8 has sauber exhaust.

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I find it v interesting how Sauber an RBR converged to very similar new solutions:

-slot on the nose
-added horizontal winglets to the pod vertical vanes
-same rear body work/exhaust channelling solution

That's maybe why Newey said he likes this car

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+ the slotted nose vanes
http://f1zoom.co.cc/?year=2012&race=cat ... =50&view=1

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diffuser launch spec details


link - ANALYSIS

Last evo

[Rikhart]

Exhaust's path

I believe that widening of the plume is what RB are trying to avoid with their new tunnel. The tunnel takes the air coming from sidepods, protecting the exhaust on it´s way wherever it´s going.