cramr wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 14:21
paddyf1 wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 11:10
"I was very surprised by Adrian Newey, he did not use a front wing but he equipped the Red Bull with a front diffuser. The Red Bull is a car with two speakers. One is the rear one combined with the car body with rake trim and the other is the front wing which has an inclination of 10 ° - 12 ° with that shape has created a diffuser with a very large surface". "Newey has used a wing that generates vortices under the wing to create depression and increase the charge of the front axle without moving the flow upwards and without ruining the aerodynamic efficiency of the car. With this shape, it gives more air to the rear diffuser. It's a car with two diffusers, one that goes down straight, the back one, and the other, the front one, which works with a constant height in this way does not lose aerodynamic efficiency in the wake. He recreated a ground effect with the rake along the whole body of the car that even joins the one created by the front wing. It's a brilliant thing". Enrique Scalabroni.
Like always, no? I don't see anything new in there.
I think in the previous regulations that was always true, the front wing acted like a front diffuser and used create an outwash effect and guide the airflow.
It seems that with the new regs the teams can no longer have the best of both worlds. We've seen with teams like Alfa that they've gone for a wing super focused at outwash instead probably at the expensive of the diffuser affect of the front wing because of the reduced volume under the wing.
Red bull and to some degree mercedes instead seemed to of focused more on increasing the diffuser effect at the cost of losing out on outwash. This is probably what the quote by Enrique Scalabroni is pointing towards, that they've focused on one instead of another.
Of course i can't prove my theory in either way, as the teams aren't going to just release that kind of information to the public. So everything is just speculation.
