ringo wrote:
They are closer in 2014 blackout. And the inlet air is heat by the exhuast below. 2015 version is upstream and further.
I think we can safely say your are wrong here black out.
Can't see why the 2014 air inlet would be heat by exhausts more than 2015... dont just look at the distance sparating them.
As I said, basically the RB11 exhaust and intercooler lie in the same room with no separations but the heat chieldings... And the distance between them is small. While the RB10 exhausts and intercooler were basically placed in two different chambers thanks to that very Neweysque layout. They had the ordinary heat chieldings, the sidepod air tunnel and the bodywork to separate them...
After 2014 I was expecting two different scenarios*; either RBR keeps that quite bold engine+cooling system layout which seemd to be a nice compromise between a clasical layout and a Ferrari/Merc layout, or RBR and Renault follow the reds and the silvers arrows and produce a similar more integrated all-in-one PU.
But it seems RBR decided to step back and adopt a very conservative Caterham layout.
At least for the firts races...
*Toro Rosso has followed one of those two scenarios it seems...