Red Bull RB7 Renault

[beelsebob]

Teams are allowed limited straight line tests, and limited fixed radius tests.

Neither of which involves driving round Silverstone.

[Neno]

Teams are allowed limited straight line tests, and limited fixed radius tests.

Neither of which involves driving round Silverstone.

+1 =D>

[-Tifosi_dude-]

Scarbs wrote via twitter "Red Bull, heres that duct feeding the starter motor hole, note the complex rear brake ducts". The back end of that car is really something else, haven't seen such a tight package like that. Kudos to them =D>

[ringo]

was that slit always in the 3rd element?

[MIKEY_!]

Yes

Launch photo.

[raymondu999]

It's always been there on the 3rd flap in the top edge near the endplates. But is that an effect of the angle making the inner "r-shaped" cascade look like it has a slot, or does it really have a slot?

[MIKEY_!]

The r-cascade does not have a slot. You can see it on the LHS of ringo's pic.

[Pierce89]

It's always been there on the 3rd flap in the top edge near the endplates. But is that an effect of the angle making the inner "r-shaped" cascade look like it has a slot, or does it really have a slot?

you're seeing the slot in the main plane

[f1motta]

Any idea what it can be?



Maybe Red Bull is trying something similar to Mercedes front wing F-duct?

Source: http://www.f1talks.pl/2011/11/14/red-bu ... uje-f-duct

[Richard]

Teams are allowed limited straight line tests, and limited fixed radius tests.

Neither of which involves driving round Silverstone.

+1 =D>

They are allowed to do promo videos in the current car.

I also recall the following that could be true, or an old rule now deleted, or fiction!

• I think "special tyres" are speed limited
• Ferrari tested their EBD at a promo test, so I gather FOTA agreed that tests can only use configuration tat have been previously used in race.
• The number of promo days and distance is limited

Here are the FIA sporting regs

22.1 Track testing shall be considered any track running time not part of an Event undertaken by a competitor entered in the Championship, using cars which conform substantially with the 2010, 2011 or 2012 Formula One Technical Regulations, with the exception of promotional events carried out using tyres provided specifically for this purpose by the appointed supplier.

22.2 No competitor may carry out more than 15,000km of track testing during a calendar year.

22.3 No track testing may take place :
a) Whilst a Championship Event is taking place.
b) During the month of August except under c) iii) below.
c) Between the start of the week preceding the first Event of the Championship and 31 December of the same year with the following exceptions :

i) One three day young driver training test, carried out on a site approved by the FIA for Formula 1 cars either, between the end of the last Event of the Championship and 31 December of the same year or, at any other time during the Championship season following the agreement of all competitors and the FIA. No driver who has competed in more than two F1 World Championship races may take part in this test and all drivers must be in possession of an International A Licence.

ii) Four one day aerodynamic tests carried out on FIA approved straight line or constant radius sites between 1 January 2012 and the end of the last Event of the Championship. Any of these days may be substituted for four hours of wind-on full scale wind tunnel testing to be carried out in a single twenty four hour period.

iii) If a team declares that one of its current race drivers is to be substituted by a driver who has not participated in an F1 race in the two previous calendar years, one day of track testing will be permitted between the start of the week preceding second Event and the last Event of the Championship. The following must be observed :

- Any such day may only be carried out by the new driver and may not take place on a circuit hosting a race in the current Championship year.

- Any such day may only take place within a period 14 days prior to the substitution and 14 days after the substitution has taken place.

- If a team, having declared the driver’s substitution and performed the test, does not then enter an Event with the new driver, the team will be penalised by a reduction of one day from the pre-season track testing days available in the following year.

[Dragonfly]

Those restrictions and teams stalking each other are a complete lunacy.

[MIKEY_!]

Any idea what it can be?



Maybe Red Bull is trying something similar to Mercedes front wing F-duct?

Source: http://www.f1talks.pl/2011/11/14/red-bu ... uje-f-duct

For the FW f-duct to be legal the intake can't be in the nose. Therefore this is not their version of that device. It's just about having longer wing supports to help direct air to the right places, just as Ferrari do.

Also the hole supposedly to feed it was closed off.

http://www.f1talks.pl/2011/11/10/czwart ... ?nggpage=2

[wesley123]

Mikey, isnt the Merc tested Front wing f-Duct fed by the nose cone hole?

[MIKEY_!]

Yes but they run it only in practice which is OK apparently. If RBR did this to then they are fine too.

[Italiano]

Any idea what it can be?



Maybe Red Bull is trying something similar to Mercedes front wing F-duct?

Source: http://www.f1talks.pl/2011/11/14/red-bu ... uje-f-duct

For the FW f-duct to be legal the intake can't be in the nose. Therefore this is not their version of that device. It's just about having longer wing supports to help direct air to the right places, just as Ferrari do.

Also the hole supposedly to feed it was closed off.

http://www.f1talks.pl/2011/11/10/czwart ... ?nggpage=2

I'm sorry, but that has to be just a trace of the dummy camera, that's usually glued there.