Old rear wing in Norris’s car:
New rear wing in Piastri’s car (I believe):
Both rear wings present in Zandvoort… You can see the differences
Merc, amr, alpine, alpha tauri all have the same rear wing endplate design on their high downforce wing. It's likely to be improving the outwash / horizontal expansion to generate more downforce.
The slits on the edges create vortices. Closing them should reduce the df/drag I imagine.organic wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023, 17:01Merc, amr, alpine, alpha tauri all have the same rear wing endplate design on their high downforce wing. It's likely to be improving the outwash / horizontal expansion to generate more downforce.
Couple of teams had it on their high df wings at Monaco and others since copied but only appeared on high df configs - tells you it's not going to be about efficiency or drs effectiveness but maximum downforce generation
High df wings all have strong DRS effects anyway - RB have no advantage with the high df spec for instance - because everyone's drs flaps are cranked and maximum height/width.
It is a barn door of a wing but the telemetry seems to show that it has improved straight line speed.organic wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023, 17:01Merc, amr, alpine, alpha tauri all have the same rear wing endplate design on their high downforce wing. It's likely to be improving the outwash / horizontal expansion to generate more downforce.
Couple of teams had it on their high df wings at Monaco and others since copied but only appeared on high df configs - tells you it's not going to be about efficiency or drs effectiveness but maximum downforce generation
High df wings all have strong DRS effects anyway - RB have no advantage with the high df spec for instance - because everyone's drs flaps are cranked and maximum height/width.
Interesting. That inboard strake is super contoured.
It's an odd angle so it's hard to tell accurately but from what I can see the strakes seem to do something that only the red bulls use.
The 3 outboard strakes seem to follow the normal philosophy that most teams have been using (and mclaren previously). Agreed that they're certainly getting much more adventurous with the inboard strake howevertrinidefender wrote: ↑26 Aug 2023, 02:17It's an odd angle so it's hard to tell accurately but from what I can see the strakes seem to do something that only the red bulls use.
The strakes seem to run back much straighter than other teams then a hard kink and outwards pushing the airflow out the side of the floor. Almost all the other teams, and McLaren's old philosophy, seemed to try to push the airflow outwards at a much earlier point on the floor.