Ferrari F138

[Hail22]

[stefan_]

Barcelona (Test 3, Session 2) - Day 4 (03.03.2013)

[Forza]

Rear view

http://i.imgur.com/GdBAmty.jpg

[ssetem]

when are ferrari gonna try their own DRD?:(

[f1316]

http://s2.spiced.co/f1/full/51330d1f0b6 ... bc63b1.jpg

Craig Scarborough ‏@ScarbsF1
#F1Testing Note how soon the exhaust hits the floor & how the fence keeps the flow off the rear tyre

Craig Scarborough ‏@ScarbsF1
#F1Testing Note how the flow diverges over the diffuser top, aided by the vanes on top of the diffuser

Sounds like the exhaust is doing what they want it to do. The most encouraging thing for me about the Ferrari this year is how everything they're bringing is working (apparently).

[stefan_]

Barcelona (Test 3, Session 2) - Day 4 (03.03.2013)

[dren]

Those are rather large cooling exits.

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

Or a small conscious slow down in the last sector to keep people in the dark of their ultimate performance.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEbUqldCMAA2b6g.jpg:large

So much floor!!

It's not the same exhaust than yesterday right ? It's seems it's much shorter than yesterday exhaust

[stefan_]

[bhall]

Those are rather large cooling exits.

It's because they're stalling the sidepods - like giant Thermos air dams - to reduce drag at high speed, and they've got to be able to evacuate the accumulated airflow quickly off-throttle so the engine and/or sidepods won't burst into flames. (Or so that's what I've been told by the harrowing voice within my head that makes a mockery of any attempts at inner tranquility. No, you stop it!)

By the way, is no one going to excitedly point out the new shallower rear wing and complementary end plates?

[Forza]

BCN T03 - Day 4

HiRes http://www.formule1.nl/media/uploads/me ... 403.85.jpg

[Crucial_Xtreme]

Different top chord/DRS flap, one with large dips & another with rather small ones.

[Crabbia]

Barcelona (Test 3, Session 2) - Day 4 (03.03.2013)

http://img2.auto-motor-und-sport.de/Fer ... 665396.jpg

Look at the centre of the beam wing. Looks like they have a hole going straight through the beam wing.

Maybe that's why they dropped the monkey seat. Depending on the shape of that hole, maybe that is serving the same purpose as the monkey seat, keeping the rear wing flow attached.

[muelte]

Also, different RW endplates, one with 5 slots (I believe new one) and the original one with 6 slots

[dr_cooke]

What on earth can they be covering with the towels? May they be just fast cooling that area of bodywork when in pits?