Ferrari 150° Italia

[tjaeger]

Hope the team can step it up, or it will be Seb against 'Kylie'. What a drama that will be all season.

[ing]

Can someone explain why a different carbon cloth (more orangish) is used for the leading edge of he floor compared to the traditional bigger weave we see?

We did see this in the Renault case where the exhausts exited in the front. Are the fibres coated on a single side with ally or a a heat resistant material?

Thanks

Looks like kevlar inter-weaved with the carbon to increase the toughness (and so, impact resistance) of the floor assembly in that area. You see the same sort of weave in the under nose deflectors.

[Gilles 27]

Maybe it's only my opinion, but any time the 150° Italia get on track the design looks better, cleaner, especially the back part of the car looks almost accurate as the RBR (the engine cover with the big exhaust is horrible!) and McLaren with thes U/L-sidepods.

[zgred]

from yesterday

[bot6]

looks to me that the suspension is designed to artificially lengthen the wheelbase while keeping the differential as far forwards as possible, to give more space to the diffuser...

And the slot in the beam wing is interesting...

[Lurk]

the upper ones too?

In fact I was talking about the middle ones.

Yesterday


February 18th


The bottom one seems to have changed to but I'm not sure. Image quality is not good enough.

[imightbewrong]

Camera at rear tire?

[Crabbia]

Camera at rear tire?

maybe infrared cam?

although there is one in the diffuser too, so maybe not an infrared.

but hold on if they wanted to look at heat transfere in the diffusor, a thermal cam pointing directly onto it would probably be useful.

Edit: well not heat transfer in the diffusor, just the pattern of heat on the diffusor and how hot it gets.

there is a pic a few pages back of the rear of the car steaming. That arse looks like it gets warmer than mine after a good curry.

after all this car does have the dubious honor of being the only one to catch fire. albeit without this exhaust set up.

[The_Man]

Camera at rear tire?

Probably a tyre temperature sensor. to measure the sidewall temperature.

[747heavy]

or a laser distance/camera sensor, to measure/look at side wall deflection.
(just a random guess)

[ESPImperium]

Im thinking that teams may be looking at embedding theese sensors in the rear wing end plat of the car, this could be a major cold war for 2011 is tyre sensors sprouting all over the car to monitor their performance and aid the teams modeling data at their HQs for the development of their new cars for 2012, as the car that is easiest on their tires and is still fast enough, will be the winner of the race i think.

I suppose you cannot have too many sensors.

[tok-tokkie]

The new tyres are so sensitive & temperamental that tyre monitoring during the race may be very useful for race tactics.

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

130 laps, great reliability

[Sean H]

Ferrari seems to struggle today? Or is Massa lost in setup or new stuff, while ALonso will hit it running?

Just running their program.

[zgred]