RB VCARB 03

[FW17]

[vorticism]

First sighting of floor stays in these regs.

[Owen.C93]

Looks like the edge of the diffuser has some interesting details. Hard to see through the spray, but potentially some up flicks like the brake fairings used to have.

[Giando]

Is that a beam wing, sort of? Loophole found?

[pantherxxx]

The packaging looks very compact here, given how much of the floor is visible at the back. Much narrower than Haas. Hopefully the Red Bull-Ford engine will be fine if they managed to make it this compact.

[vorticism]

Is that a beam wing, sort of? Loophole found?

https://i.ibb.co/Q5Gfw1x/Screenshot-202 ... -36-36.png

Rear wing stay. A small single-element airfoil profile is permitted there to locate the endplates. It looks big there because it's blending in with the suspension arms.

[Giando]

Is that a beam wing, sort of? Loophole found?

https://i.ibb.co/Q5Gfw1x/Screenshot-202 ... -36-36.png

Rear wing stay. A small single-element airfoil profile is permitted there to locate the endplates. It looks big there because it's blending in with the suspension arms.

Ok clear. Thanks!

[Nickel]

Is it just me or does that airbox look gargantuan?

[edu2703]

Is it just me or does that airbox look gargantuan?

[prox]

Does it look like a significant high-rake design has been reintroduced?

The car will look higher than normal as its on full wets

[FW17]

Is it just me or does that airbox look gargantuan?

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

not much larger than STR 10



They had put one of the ERS cooler on the sides of the fuel tank, others had done on top of the intake manifold

[Badger]

[BorisTheBlade]

As for cooling, I don't see this as a surprise because many technical people had already anticipated that the 2026 cars, as they were described, had more challenging cooling requirements compared to the last gen. The RedBull livery render broke that expectation because it had both slim sidepods and a slim centerline, however we don't know if that's a real car or not.

Honest question: What is the reasoning behind this stance?
As I see it, Thermal Efficiency of the ICE should be one of the highest priorities on everyone's list in order to maximize usable power and energy recovery for the max. 833 KW provided. The same goes for the whole electrical part, which should be well above 90% TE for recovery as well as supply. So there is not a lot of heat to be produced by the latter one.
What else is there that should require lots of cooling?
I would rather suspect, that centre line cooling does not cost a lot of already much less RW downforce, while giving you design freedom for the sidepods in order to work the floor as good as you can.

[Seanspeed]

however the general sidepod shape + inlet is quite similar to the renders.

Sidepods are definitely different.

EDIT: ah geez, are those site ads showing up on my photos for everybody else, too? Really need to find a better place for image hosting I guess. smh

EDIT2: Based on newer pics, perhaps sidepods are actually the same. Looked steeper in the angle of the photo above, but not so elsewhere.

[FW17]

As for cooling, I don't see this as a surprise because many technical people had already anticipated that the 2026 cars, as they were described, had more challenging cooling requirements compared to the last gen. The RedBull livery render broke that expectation because it had both slim sidepods and a slim centerline, however we don't know if that's a real car or not.

Honest question: What is the reasoning behind this stance?
As I see it, Thermal Efficiency of the ICE should be one of the highest priorities on everyone's list in order to maximize usable power and energy recovery for the max. 833 KW provided. The same goes for the whole electrical part, which should be well above 90% TE for recovery as well as supply. So there is not a lot of heat to be produced by the latter one.
What else is there that should require lots of cooling?
I would rather suspect, that centre line cooling does not cost a lot of already much less RW downforce, while giving you design freedom for the sidepods in order to work the floor as good as you can.

The battery and control electronics which has to charge and discharge at 350kw almost the entire duration of the race

regulations dont allow for phase change cooling, maybe would have been more efficient than water cooling.