Red Bull RB8 Renault

[Crucial_Xtreme]

Wonder what the carbon tube is for...

[kenny5]

Some high res shots of the car today. Right click>view image

Lizzy will surely be a bit of a drag there....

[radosav]

@picture

[FakeAlonso]

Wonder what the carbon tube is for...

F-DUCT??

[chepoi]

ABBEY....... A.B.B.E.Y..... Another Big Blown Exhaust Year? = ABBEY

is that right?

[Holm86]

Wonder what the carbon tube is for...

F-DUCT??

Thats the crash structure.

[FrukostScones]

Wonder what the carbon tube is for...

F-DUCT??

Thats the crash structure.

no, the tube slithering along on top of the airbox...

[Crucial_Xtreme]

no, the tube slithering along on top of the airbox...

Yes I'm aware of what the crash structure is and I wasn't talking about the crash structure. You see what I'm talking about. I saw Scarbs mention he can't figure out what it is either.

[FakeAlonso]

They are working on something, maybe their own F duct version or something similar. They admitted that everyone will copy Mercedes F-Duct which we can assume they are already working on smth similar.

[Robbobnob]

whats the bet that tube comes all the way from the mailbox slot??

thats where my money is, we have heard charlie say that there are other teams than Mercedes playing with passive F-ducts, combine that with Red Bulls obsessive shrouding of the rear of their car during pre season tests i bet there is a system there.

"What it appears some teams are doing is that when the DRS is operated, it will allow air to pass into a duct and do other things," he explained.

[Blackout]

That reminds me of this
R29

[Owen.C93]

I thought I'd point out that they had those tubes last year as well. I think they vent some breather air into the airbox but I'm not sure.

Picture from Spa last year.

[Crucial_Xtreme]

Scarbs said it wasn't the airbox breather, but of course he could be wrong. Time will tell when we get some more pictures.

https://twitter.com/#!/ScarbsF1/status/ ... 4244081665

[hardingfv32]

It is a cover for the cable drooping over the plenum.

Brian

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[FakeAlonso]

Nut sits too much looser in the rim compared with other cars