Vanja #66 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2023, 20:39
An effort to establish the relation between W13 and W14 sidepods. Due to massively different came angles and fish-eye distortion (no surprises there!), the only reference for sidepod width is the floor width, since both designs are widest at the floor in order to incorporate mid wing.
https://i.ibb.co/4m3rpBc/comp-13-14.jpg
My verdict - sidepods are slightly wider at the widest point, rear end (the one where the problems were) is far wider and along the Z-axis W14 sidepods are clearly much bigger by design. Undoubtedly empty extra volume, used for external flow conditioning, much like all other teams chose to do last season.
Anyone wanting to dispute this comparison - knock yourself out
Same volume. You seem to be forcing some kind of narrative. Do this same thing from the front view with the lines.
And yes flow conditioning, but nothing to do with tyre wake.
Since 2022, some posters have maintained the belief the sidepods were not an issue. Now the truth is out, people are trying to blur the lines to not admit that they who think it was an issue were wrong. And there is no shame in that.
This car is a very slim sidepod car, with even slimmer dimensions at the front, where the tyre wake is even more critical. And light years away from resembling anything Ferrari or Redbull are trying.
It's just very clear that maybe just maybe, the forum was just over analyzing something that just was not there to begin with; this tyre wake and bouncing connection with the sidepods.