timbo wrote:Hail22 wrote:Call me coo coo, but from the images / renders of Ferrari's 2014 power unit, it may suggest that Ferrari may not feed air from the roll hoop to the turbo unit. The regulations don't specify where cooling air must feed into?
What would be the point? Also, LaFerrari test-mule has airbox, not a direct evidence, but still.
There may actually be use for this. Currently there are two main rules pertaining to the area directly above and behind the drivers head.
1. The rule pertaining to rollover protection so obviously there has to be a roll hoop of some sort. Currently this roll hoop is extended backward and turned into an engine intake.
2. The minimum area rule for advertising space. Without this i can imagine teams would go to a solution of having the intake located somewhere else but seeing as bodywork HAS to be there in the first place for advertising then again, why not make it into an air intake.
Now what if Ferrari were to take intake air from the sidepods. Then use the roll-hoop intake for maybe intercooler cooling or whatever else. This can be useful if they can make the roll hoop inlet smaller/thinner. The smaller and thinner the roll-hoop inlet the less drag that it produces. More importantly, the smaller and thinner it is the less air it takes out of the airflow acting on the rear wing and the less it disturbance and turbulence it creates for the rear wing. With the new rear wings being shallower, this might actually be worth it.
