The vertical inlet clearly visible here
Already there on the RB19, slightly different shape. Just a hot air exit.FNTC wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 23:32From Chris Medland on X: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGZztbRWcAA ... name=large
There appears to be an air exit hole from the sidepod/chassis right below the H in Honda there too.
FNTC wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 23:36https://racer.com/2024/02/15/red-bull-s ... e-on-rb20/
Horner:“I think there’s some great innovation on the car as well, which will no doubt get scrutinized over the coming weeks. Creativity has been strong in the team and you can see that in some of the solutions that they’ve come up with. It’s not a conservative evolution — there’s some great innovation on this car.”
Perfectly visible at 5 seconds
I disagree. Horner has now been interviewed post-launch and claims there will be a lot of scrutiny into what they've done and that the team has been innovative and creative in a lot of areas.
If we compare launch spec RB18 to launch spec RB19 there was a lot of clear improvement and aggressive evolution. This launch spec of RB20 is closer to RB18 level of details in most areas of top side bodywork, so I would also call it conservstive. They clearly wanted to open a new development direction for it and as such the first solution is usually either conservative or unreliable/unpredictable and no team can afford to do the latter wirh only 3 days of pre season testing
RB invested a lot in reducing weight (which is never easy) and being extremely bold with the floor, which is the main performance differentiator. Moreover, they were the first to push to the extreme (at the time) the underbite inlet approach, IIRC.
That outlet has been discussed 100 times across the rb18 and rb19 threads.
I understand what you mean but I think it's a little bit of semantics.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 23:43If we compare launch spec RB18 to launch spec RB19 there was a lot of clear improvement and aggressive evolution. This launch spec of RB20 is closer to RB18 level of details in most areas of top side bodywork, so I would also call it conservstive. They clearly wanted to open a new development direction for it and as such the first solution is usually either conservative or unreliable/unpredictable and no team can afford to do the latter wirh only 3 days of pre season testing
I reckon it'll be a duct in the chassis like Ferrari and a typical horizontal main inlet under a overbite.LM10 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 23:51Seems like the question whether it’s a high horizontal or a vertical inlet will remain unanswered until testing.
My personal armchair-expert opinion is that vertical inlets would only make sense with zeropods which the RB20 obviously doesn’t have. Other than that I can’t see how putting the inlets vertically would give an advantage over horizontally in a place with undisturbed clean air going through.