Haas VF-23 Speculation Thread

[godlameroso]

Here's what I mean. Notice how the wing starts tapering off inboard of the front tire? The front wing accelerates air underneath it. The Winglet at the bottom of the front wheel assembly, catches that energized front wing air, and pulls it behind the front wheel. Then the bargeboard is also there creating outwash.

https://files.catbox.moe/f9gq63.png

https://files.catbox.moe/wsslcf.jpg

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The yellow represents the vortex that gets formed behind the wheel. What this does in effect is it somewhat organizes the wake behind the wheel into a vortex. The benefit of this is that the wake becomes confined to said vortex and then becomes a predictable flow structure. It becomes easier to manage a vortex wake, than a turbulent wake. There's more to it than that, like how do you manage said wake, but that's a topic for another day.

https://files.catbox.moe/09zvom.jpeg

Some evidence to support my theory.

Basically, teams figured this out last season, and now they're going to apply this knowledge to the diffuser

and the front end, because it reduces tire squirt massively. Which in turn makes the floor work much better. Then they can make all sorts of intricate shapes with the tunnels and whatnot, and not have to worry about tire squirt breaking up all the fancy flow structures.

Vortex wake is turbulent wake

The way you talk it's as if you know all of this before the teams do.

And yet I specifically wrote

Basically, teams figured this out last season, and now they're going to apply this knowledge to the diffuser and the front end,

[organic]

In Kyle's recent video about the Haas he discusses using front wing shape to shed vortices to help manage tyre squirt so watch that if you haven't already

[godlameroso]

In Kyle's recent video about the Haas he discusses using front wing shape to shed vortices to help manage tyre squirt so watch that if you haven't already

Right, using the airflow from the front wing to induce a vortex behind the front tire, to manage tire squirt, I agree with his assessment 100%.

[CMSMJ1]

This car is no longer speculation.. so locked!