Red Bull RB13 TAG Heuer

[SiLo]

Just to show what you mean about the front wing, and very flat floor compared to the ground. What's strange is the front wing end plates, the bottom foot is at an upward angle, yet the top of the endplate is still horizontal... Is there flex happening in that area to separate those two pieces?

[Moose]

http://i.imgur.com/iK7vG2N.png

Just to show what you mean about the front wing, and very flat floor compared to the ground. What's strange is the front wing end plates, the bottom foot is at an upward angle, yet the top of the endplate is still horizontal... Is there flex happening in that area to separate those two pieces?

Welcome to a thing called "perspective".

[McMrocks]

Doesnt look like perspectice to me either. It seems like the rear part of the endplate is not conected to the outer part of the main plane. The rear of the main plane's outer section seems to really bend down heavily at speed

[roon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Yz_80XQAAZ44N.jpg

What I like about this shot (and this comment is not directed at you Sevach, it is a general observation) is that when you look at the new 10degree wishbone attachment angles you are tempted to visualise them as directing the air at that angle. But this flow vis shows the air running along a bit more parallel to the reference plane. I'm just reminding myself not to assume that the angle of bodywork causes air to go in exactly that direction!

In this instance I think part of what we're seeing are artifacts from the initial application of the flow vis.

[Sevach]

An article about it.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/phot ... on-881102/

[bucker]

http://i.imgur.com/iK7vG2N.png

Just to show what you mean about the front wing, and very flat floor compared to the ground. What's strange is the front wing end plates, the bottom foot is at an upward angle, yet the top of the endplate is still horizontal... Is there flex happening in that area to separate those two pieces?

It has already been explained. The bottom part of the endplate is flexible.

[Blackout]

https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/amp ... detail.jpg

An article about it.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/phot ... on-881102/

[BrunoH]

normaly with the DRS open, you get the car with more rake.. but it seems that with them it does not... is it the trick suspension they are using !!?!?
because the car should be a lot more tilted on the front end,, and it does not look like it..

[Sevach]

http://i.imgur.com/iK7vG2N.png

Just to show what you mean about the front wing, and very flat floor compared to the ground. What's strange is the front wing end plates, the bottom foot is at an upward angle, yet the top of the endplate is still horizontal... Is there flex happening in that area to separate those two pieces?

It has already been explained. The bottom part of the endplate is flexible.

The RB13 FW is different from the rest of the grid, the footplate tunnel doesn't extend all the way down at it's front most part.

Even with the car stationary it can be seen.






And that's with the huge stationary rake that the Red Bull has, when it gets on the straight and the rear gets lower it becomes even more pronounced.

[matt21]

from amus

[gandharva]

[zioture]

https://twitter.com/Graftechweb/status/ ... 5130902528 interesting comment by Scalabroni click on my tweet

[Italiano]

We are being spoiled with onboards this year.

Car looks nervous to me...

[f1316]

https://twitter.com/Graftechweb/status/ ... 5130902528

interesting comment by Scalabroni click on my tweet

You couldn't translate all the comments, could you?

[Sevach]

https://twitter.com/Graftechweb/status/ ... 5130902528

interesting comment by Scalabroni click on my tweet

You couldn't translate all the comments, could you?

There's something about Red Bull being the shortest wheelbase car and it's effects in terms of understeer.

But someone better should do this translation, i'm really limited in spanish.