Red Bull RB9 Renault

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AnthonyG wrote:Internal winglets (they might be there since a while, but I've never noticed them)
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Indeed. since 2011 or 2010. they're still interesting though and look more sophisticated than before

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Nice view of the double gurney wing like the Ferrari.
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Well when i look all this pictures, they are all screaming downforce downforce downforce. With all this gourney wings, beam wing, rear wing, and wings around brakes. All one purpose, constant downforce, trying to take big advantage of small packing sidepods, for massive air flow around them to rear end where like on front wing trying to with many elements success in having constant downforce in slow, medium and fast corners. It's not wonder that they are trying to race with Monza spec of rear wing, just to make better top speed because they would be too slow on straights.

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Close-ups of Front & Rear wing

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To me the internal winglets split the air flux in 3 parts:

The air above it go to GB radiator
The air between the two winglets go to the exit near rear suspension arm
The air under them go to the lower central exit

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Hi res of bulkhead with the new slimmer fluid bottles.

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2mm?

-2mm?

The opening seems bigger than 2mm, but I thought at first it meant they have varying slot sizes for...?
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gilgen wrote:
Blackout wrote:So they're using the lower roll-hoop intake for cooling the G-box not the Kers
DRD.
But the pictures show that the pipes lead to a radiator: gearbox cooling, no DRD then.
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Gridlock wrote:http://i.imgur.com/mzguYg4.jpg

2mm?
-2mm?
The opening seems bigger than 2mm, but I thought at first it meant they have varying slot sizes for...?
Or maybe 2mm is the thickness of that part of the S?
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Probably means "remove 2mm from here" i.e. cut this bit back by 2mm.
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5 bucks Adrian spent half a day designing the pit crews helmets ;)

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Gary Anderson's analysis on RB dropping the 3 strakes under rear lower suspension cowl and new rear brake duct fins

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F1 Malaysian GP - Friday FP - 22/3/2013

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Unbelievable vibration of that front wing (again), just saw it on FP1 around the 7 mins left mark on vettels car. It looked like it was going to fly off. Also its very clearly depressing on the straights and coming back up on braking, so it seems it doesnt really matter what sort of improvements they do to the flexing tests.

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F1 Malaysian GP - Saturday - 23/3/2013

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