Ferrari F138

[zioture]

You look here:

Photo nose first hole

second nose plugging the hole

https://twitter.com/Graftechweb/status/ ... 12/photo/1

[zioture]

I thought holes in the nosecones was illegal.

Ferrari hole is not in nosecone, is almost aligned with front wheel center

Yes there is two different noses...
look my twitter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BC6SB4oCQAAl8y-.jpg:large

Last cover hole... first have a different design..
Sorry for my english i am italian

[Mesteño]

We should call it the Ferrari Smile.

[f1316]

It's obviously a hole and it's - pretty damn obviously, I think - not just for driver cooling.

Whether it is simply cleaning up the boundary layer airflow - as Scarbs said - or if it is related to the DRS boost Mark Gillian mentioned, is the real question.

[Red Schneider]

I'm no aero expert, but I have to think this is either a horribly obvious duct-tape solution to driver cooling or they're being sly here. I hope and expect that it's the latter.

[Rikhart]

Maybe this image can help us to see the hole.

Ahh lovely, I KNEW there was a photo without the nose cone, but I couldnt find it! I dont think Ferrari will be too happy about this pic!

[shelly]

Big inlets require big outlets. So, after having determined that there is an underchin inlet, it could be interesting to find the outlet.
I was intrigued by this picture

the outlets are the same as last year at the moment, but the panel is small and easy to change- maybe the next iteration of them will show something interesting.

[zonk]

there is no hole on the side of tube.

[shelly]

I see. Then, forgetting the inlet, how are the two last pictures compatible? Different chassis specs?

[radosav]

What about small wings on front brake ducts? Where they there last year?

[zonk]

[Chuckjr]

I still find it absolutely astounding that they can cool the brakes adequately with inlets which are not 20% the face size from just a couple years ago. Incredible.

If anyone can direct me to a discussion of this current brake cooling design, please reply with a link. I still don't fully understand how they can possibly work.

[jaba.hut]

Best image of hole. It is definitely down under:

[Pierce89]

In case you haven't noticed, Ferrari has two noses. One covers whole ,while one exposes the hole.

[Hail22]

Up close photo of the F 138's rear brake duct/winglet:



Vertical turning vanes on the floor of the F 138:



Credit to Sam who posted this via his blog on Racecar engineering: http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/ferrari-f2013/