siskue2005 wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 22:53
waynes wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 21:31
" it doesn’t look like a potentially race-winning car."
Ok Gary
If Gary says that it means it will win the championship
Gary Anderson then said: "Hopefully, I will be proved wrong – and that’s something that has happened on many occasions!"
So he is self-aware about that!
The F1-75 itself is a rather a strange looking car. The design of the sidepods is very, very odd.
DragonSGC wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 22:22
https://youtu.be/Eqmp3J4Wv6s
Looking at how this Italian show has visualized the flows it does at least make sense (if that's what Ferrari are doing). Similarly to what Williams are doing splitting what air flows through what louvres, so the radiator air on the rear half of the louvres (which would neatly clear the beam wings) and then the pass through air on the front half flowing through the valley which will then interact with the beam wings.
So the reason the sidepods are large is because the new engine has an enormous exhaust manifold?
Or past some faux-cooler (as the rules require the sidepods inlets to feed cooling) like a bent piece of oil line, as an excuse to through-flow air through the sidepods (Williams also suspected of this)?
Edit - Nevermind, I see it's because the sidepod top is very, very concave. That is not so obvious from other photographs.
PhillipM wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 15:58
Sevach wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 15:48
They are ginourmous intentionally, if they removed the concave factor(which i'm pretty sure isn't necessary for cooling)
I'm pretty sure it is, they're dropping the pressure there by
sheilding it with the raised outer sidepod area
But that will raise the pressure, not drop the pressure?
Shielded areas that are more stagnant have higher pressure.
Unless they are extremely confident that air will follow the top surface and be accelerated like the curve of the suction side (longer path) of an aerofoil.