There is a metal skate on the 8nner most turning vane under the floor.
Suggesting the inner section of the floor is cominh to ground?
Potentially but I dont't think this is the case here. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is used to create complex parts, with sharp edges, which otherwise couldn't be done with carbon, in a much shorter period of time.
The diagonal corner is an effect of having the leading edge of the SP inlet at the limit of the reg box. It is not something MB invented. In fact AMR22 launch-spec was the first car to have the diagonal corner due to full length sp inlet
I see it more as the opposite. If Red Bull wanted to get more to the front of the floor, they would have gone with a concept similar to Ferrari's from last year, creating a higher pressure zone at the front of the floor. The undercut is more to direct air to the rear floor edge and the the rear corner. You could see from the start of the season when they applied flow viz how clean the flow was to this region.LeveragedTiger wrote: ↑22 Jul 2023, 22:43The more Red Bull develop their concept, the more I interpret it as the inverse of Mercedes’ original zero-pod concept.
The original zero-pod concept was about getting as much air-flow to the rear corners of the diffuser and floor as in theory, that would result in the greatest airflow through the floor thus maximizing overall downforce. The difficulty is that much unconditioned airflow over the top of the floor is far too unpredictable to consistently generate maximum downforce.
In contrast, it appears that Red Bull are maximizing as much airflow over the front of the floor as possible. As a non-aerodynamicist, my speculation is that the benefit of this approach is:
1) creating more downforce at the front of the floor, positively impacting the centre-of-pressure to create a more neutral balance
2) the undercut receiving far more clean air that can then be conditioned by the bodywork for more predictable behaviour at the rear of the car, thus improving the consistency of the floor downforce