The throat section features pressure drop (low pressure or suction), but ahead of it (under the inlet) is an increase in pressure (high pressure, pressurisation) which is what forces front wheel wake outwards.
RB20 has turned out to be a relatively big evolution. If RB20 is an improvement over RB18/19, then the competitors will still be playing catch up by emulating last year's car. Otherwise, RB have shot themselves in the foot. What say you?
+1 Suspension, setup, and strategy are still major factors; if you nail the aero yet lack those you won't get very far. Drivetrains are roughly equal now but they too were a major factor starting in 2014.Seanspeed wrote: ↑14 Feb 2024, 15:10Similarly, even among the runners-up/midfield, while you could argue things were quite tight when averaged out over a course of races or the season, we still saw plenty of behavioral and competitive changes from track to track, indicating there's still a good chunk going on behind performance and performance characteristics than just which general concept you're running.
Maybe this year the more solidified convergence does create a closer field, but I'll bet that like every year, there's going to be plenty of gaps between the haves and have nots, and plenty of competitive divergence in actual real world results. And it will become even harder for the armchair analysts here to be able to point to any feature and go, "That right there is what is making the difference", though no doubt there will still be plenty of speculative attempts to do so anyways. Cuz well, people have gotta talk about something, eh?
The whole Overbite thing makes no sense to me. You reduce the high pressure zone under the intake which leads to the front wheel wake not being pushed outwards, at high speeds the air that the inlet can't absorb flows into the undercut and along the sides. For me this makes no sense and only has disadvantages and i do not see how someone can make this work. But its definitely interesting to see what comes out.JordanMugen wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 04:43Is it the year of overbite v. underbite, with even Red Bull going to an overbite too (alleged)?
If you flip that logic (you do want to remove the effects of wheel wake, but will have consequences elsewhere from redirection of that flow) then to ACCEPT it into an air intake, thus increasing pressure of cooling duct....may offer a good route out for that volume...rather than disturbing the flow down the outside of the sidepod, also to advantage.Andi76 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 20:39The whole Overbite thing makes no sense to me. You reduce the high pressure zone under the intake which leads to the front wheel wake not being pushed outwards, at high speeds the air that the inlet can't absorb flows into the undercut and along the sides. For me this makes no sense and only has disadvantages and i do not see how someone can make this work. But its definitely interesting to see what comes out.JordanMugen wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 04:43Is it the year of overbite v. underbite, with even Red Bull going to an overbite too (alleged)?
The presentation has probably answered the question of whether yes or no, which makes your theory a probability. For me, however, the problem still remains that this causes extreme damage at high speeds when the intake can no longer absorb it. I am curious to see how they have solved this problem. And whether it actually works like in the Windtunnel.Farnborough wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 20:56If you flip that logic (you do want to remove the effects of wheel wake, but will have consequences elsewhere from redirection of that flow) then to ACCEPT it into an air intake, thus increasing pressure of cooling duct....may offer a good route out for that volume...rather than disturbing the flow down the outside of the sidepod, also to advantage.Andi76 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 20:39The whole Overbite thing makes no sense to me. You reduce the high pressure zone under the intake which leads to the front wheel wake not being pushed outwards, at high speeds the air that the inlet can't absorb flows into the undercut and along the sides. For me this makes no sense and only has disadvantages and i do not see how someone can make this work. But its definitely interesting to see what comes out.JordanMugen wrote: ↑15 Feb 2024, 04:43
Is it the year of overbite v. underbite, with even Red Bull going to an overbite too (alleged)?
I liked last years RB 19 arrangement,,thought they had a logic and performance to them that gave advantages, but can see by asking that as a question (what I've written in first paragraph) then a different answer may evolve. That of taking unwanted, inner front tyre disturbance wake, and using that energy stream within the cooling duct, while taking off the table for further downstream management need.
It'll be interesting to see what they've really done when we get more informative images.
The low pressure area is right above where the kick out is from the underfloor strake flow. Should aid in extraction.
