RZS10 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2019, 22:49
tl:dr in english?
google translate but some of it hasnt translated well but think you can get most of it.
The technical challenge began between Ferrari SF90 and Mercedes W10. The single-seater of the Cavallino presented today at Fiorano has made school with regard to the very narrow bellies with the mouths of very small radiators, in search of aerodynamic exasperation that privileged efficiency with a reduction of resistance to progress.
La Rossa, however, in spite of other cars like the same Alfa Romeo C38 curated by Simone Resta and Luca Furbatto, not to mention McLaren, has not focused on a front suspension too innovative as, instead, did the Mercedes.
On the SF90 technicians have limited themselves to raising the lower triangle to favor a cleaner flow of flows, in the partial attempt to recover a part of the front aerodynamic load with the adoption of the very simplified front wing.
The silver arrow, on the other hand, has retained the bracket that emerges from the hub door to lift the upper triangle, maintaining a concept that has already given its results on the W09 world champion, after it was first seen on the car 2017: so the arm of the Brackley single-seater is perfectly in line with the air intakes of the bellies working as a flow diverter but with an indisputably smaller section compared to that of the Red.
In Maranello he experimented with this solution, but they preferred to leave it aside for the complicated realization that requires an increase in weight. In short, Cardile and associates considered that the aerodynamic advantage was not worth the mass increase.
Too bad that Mercedes, however, has introduced a second pivot that serves to anchor the strut of the push rod, to hide behind the small air intake brakes. With the abolition of the very complicated 2018 brake ducts, engineers try to restore the lost load with new solutions, even if the "finger" seems something very similar to that which the FIA had banned at the beginning of last year at Ferrari to avoid that you could lower the car when cornering with the steering turned.
