Who says the presented car has any internals?
We'll see soon enough. Cause I guarantee you the car doing the shakedown will have internals. So a decoy now and the real thing two hours later? No real point IMO.Henk_v wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:27Who says the presented car has any internals?
Well, last year they brought in Barcelona the new car with different floor and side pods. Maybe was an early development of the car.
The bodywork and shoulders were much, much lower and shrinkwrapped. Look at the comparison pics in the thread.BlueCheetah66 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:16I'd disagree with the notion that the canon makes less sense with the zero pods. Even last year they had a large cannon exit, just with a less defined section leading up to it.Henk_v wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 11:59Those mid wings are exactly what they ran in '22. I'll eat my shoe if that is the '23 solution. I agree we are looking at a decoy car here.
Their upper bodywork with the shoulders and cannon exit would make far less sense with the zeropod solution. I prepare for some proper sidepods.
Interesting rear wing. The lower element seems to extend below/behind the DRS flap. Maybe they found gain in less open area between the element when DRS is opened as they would stall the lower element more?
Also I don't understand what you are trying to say about the rear wing. It is a fairly normal wing by F1 standards and the lower element will always extend behind the leading edge of the DRS flap
No, they brought that in Bahrain. The other sidepod solution they still tested in Barcelona, it was mostly assumed to simply be hiding the real solution.sbrillo wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:29Well, last year they brought in Barcelona the new car with different floor and side pods. Maybe was an early development of the car.
If we consider how many things they brought for all 2022 season I can say that brought "2 cars" don't cost them nothing. Maybe this year they continue with the trend and brought the early development cars. For what we know, I could be. We have to wait to see if this is the real w14.
Looks like longer wheelbase.
The car in the render is clearly different from the car they showed at the event. Now, whether the event car is the real car, we'll only know in Bahrain. They may still decide to do the shakedown with the event car.F1Krof wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:35Scarbs thinks this is not the real car.
https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/1 ... 57056?s=20
Actually it's pretty identical besides the cooling louvres.mkay wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:40The car in the render is clearly different from the car they showed at the event. Now, whether the event car is the real car, we'll only know in Bahrain. They may still decide to do the shakedown with the event car.F1Krof wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:35Scarbs thinks this is not the real car.
https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/1 ... 57056?s=20
Sidepods are now even smallerorganic wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 12:18https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo__NMZWcAE ... ame=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo__NroXgAA ... ame=medium
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