Long term F1 Fan wrote:Looking at the on board speed and revs it seems that Kimi was able to rev to just past 12K while the Renaults were limited to around 11,250-11,500, so it would seem the Ferrari's are able to rev higher for the same amount of fuel flow... more efficient combustion at a higher rev rate = more power, right?
No, the efficiency will not get better with higher rev rate. The ammount of energy you can harvest with the MGU-H is the problem. This reduces the energy for the MGU-K on the straights. Looking at the video above, you can see that the Renault runs out of battery power at the end of the straight.
Long term F1 Fan wrote:
It seems to me that the ridiculous length and path of the charged air intake feeding the ICUs is proving less total boost (runs out of air sooner...) than the Mercedes or the Ferrari for the same amount of fuel flow. It is not really efficient compared to its rivals.
The pressure drop should be neglectable. What do you mean with "runs out of air sooner..."? The turbo pushes air at a certain pressure into the engine. How can anything run out?
Long term F1 Fan wrote:
Why can't they just spend the majority of the tokens on finally splitting their turbo or at least copying the Ferrari layout (air to liquid intercooler in the V, MKH in between the compressor and turbine)?
Come one guys... properly fund the engine group, hire more engineers and run a parallel design program to fix this layout.- the current layout clearly does not work or others would have gone down the same development road - stop trying to make it work it is a losing battle - the charged air needs to take the path of least resistance and distance- it seems so obvious.
If I see it correctly, than Renault doesn not want external input. So no Ilien input, no copying, no external engineers. You can read all on this on the last page of this thread.