Lotus E22 Renault

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And if you look carefully on whole car, you'll notice that floor around rear left wheel is "weird".
Also, sidepod flow conditioner seems unpainted, just plain carbon with TOTAL sticker on it. (OK, it could be just optical illusion)

Very crude, unfinished car.

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zioture wrote:It look like in the top few in vent pipe with fin under
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... us_e22.jpg

In the top it look like Sauber
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... sauber.jpg
That vent is only on Ferrari powered cars

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zioture wrote:It look like in the top few in vent pipe with fin under
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... us_e22.jpg

In the top it look like Sauber
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... sauber.jpg

DRD maybe ?

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Not too sure if this image has been posted before but here.. I also think they are cooling the turbo
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CottrellGP wrote:Not too sure if this image has been posted before but here..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgIjSPSCEAARaQE.jpg:large
This seems to be the first real picture of the whole car. If you have more pictures please post or link them.

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Where they're pointing that blower doesn't instill confidence.

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CottrellGP wrote:Not too sure if this image has been posted before but here.. I also think they are cooling the turbo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgIjSPSCEAARaQE.jpg:large
the mechanics are blowing cold air where I had indicated the air intake
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Looks like the device is back (DRD), no ? Zoom below the rear wing...

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Pup wrote:Where they're pointing that blower doesn't instill confidence.
I would be amazed if it's not standard protocol up and down the grid with the new engines.

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gobjb wrote:The prongs on the nose look massive.
Yup.
That's why I'm still not sold on it. Compared to the Merc solution (and a few others) this looks like some massive blocking of the airflow to the floor especially since with the significant length the longitudinal increase of the boundary layer on the inner sides of the tusks will leave pretty little effective cross section for free airflow to the T-Tray area.
I wonder if they could have vents on the inner sides to remove/reduce the boundary layers.

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Using CotrellGP's image, looks like hole at the base of the sidepod.
Plus - am I seeing the F/W endplate arrangement right?

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Not a hole. That part of the bodywork is just black and can be opened...
Leading arm of the lower front wishbone seems thicker than the other one. They combined it with the steering arms it seems., like the R30...

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zack! wrote:Looks like the device is back (DRD), no ? Zoom below the rear wing...
I was looking at that too, if this is real this might be the championship winning car. I'm looking forward to Bahrain even more after this pic... :roll:

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Don't think there is DRD, all I see is a regular rear wing pillar and due to picture angle looks like it's connected to the cooling outlet in a DRD way, but it's not.

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