Red Bull RB15

[Morteza]

Detail of Red Bull rear rims. Grooved areas to interact with temperatures.

[zibby43]

[Wouter]

New frontwing.

[auv]

So, they returned to the pre-Austria FW endplates

[Sevach]

Different DRS activator.

[seense]

New frontwing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGfIMkJVUAA ... name=large

How do you tell and whats new about it?

[Wouter]

New frontwing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGfIMkJVUAA ... name=large

How do you tell and whats new about it?

Pierre Waché, Technical director said it.

Whats new?
Here the frontwing from Sochi and the new one:

[Morteza]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGf6S6lUEAA ... name=large

Different DRS activator.

The shape of the wings is also different
Albon


Verstappen

[dxpetrov]

New frontwing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGfIMkJVUAA ... name=large

How do you tell and whats new about it?

Pierre Waché, Technical director said it.

Whats new?
Here the frontwing from Sochi and the new one:

https://imgr1.auto-motor-und-sport.de/R ... 631994.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGfIMkJVUAA ... name=large

It's only new if you had a short memory. That's a pre-Austria, Monaco / France spec front wing. Obviously they have no clue what to do and forced to go back&forth with different elements to try to get lucky with best combination of downforce levels.

[Wouter]

How do you tell and whats new about it?

Pierre Waché, Technical director said it.

Whats new?
Here the frontwing from Sochi and the new one:

https://imgr1.auto-motor-und-sport.de/R ... 631994.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGfIMkJVUAA ... name=large

It's only new if you had a short memory. That's a pre-Austria, Monaco / France spec front wing. Obviously they have no clue what to do and forced to go back&forth with different elements to try to get lucky with best combination of downforce levels.

It's only new if you had a short memory.

Tell that to Pierre Waché, the Technical director, he said that. Tell him he has a short memory.

[seense]

Pierre Waché, Technical director said it.

Yes he said they will bring a new front wing to suzuka, but he didn't say the wing on the picture is actually the new FW.
It looks very much like a previous spec FW.

Maybe there are a few minor tweaks and I cant see them, so thats why I asked whats different.

[Sieper]

Max is indeed using a different rearwing to Albon (for now, if this is what they'll drive with). Max has more DF (a deeper RW). The easiest way to tell is look at how high the DRS activator tower is, the 33 car clearly has a higher arm then the 23). Max also has the new S duct exit. It is less wide so it will have somewhat less drag then the previous outlet and perhaps it will also compress the air exiting it more? Might just be an improvement instead of just a (better)compromise?

I do agree the FW on Max's car does indeed look suspiciously like the Monaco wing (closed thumb tip, the straight side plates). They also said (I read somewhere Pierre Waché said) they had some problems with their windtunnel data / real life comparison and their new wing (that was being developed for Suzuka) is thus not deemed an improvement (too much drag on high speeds).

But maybe this is just smoke and whistles and we'll see a new wing in FP1.

[Zarathustra]

Red Bull needs to switch to the box kite side pod style the way Mercedes and Ferrari have done. The rest of the grid are using that fighter jet where the top and side elements are detached.

Box kites are incredible under yaw, the trick is feeding them enough air in the right place.

Of course easier said than done as going full box kite might not work with other bits on the car, and bargeboards.

Mercedes just went the Red Bull way... so not sure what you’re saying..

[godlameroso]

Red Bull needs to switch to the box kite side pod style the way Mercedes and Ferrari have done. The rest of the grid are using that fighter jet where the top and side elements are detached.

Box kites are incredible under yaw, the trick is feeding them enough air in the right place.

Of course easier said than done as going full box kite might not work with other bits on the car, and bargeboards.

Mercedes just went the Red Bull way... so not sure what you’re saying..

Mercedes is trying to reduce drag. They lose too much on the straights, and it will be painfully obvious around Suzuka which is very drag sensitive.

[ME4ME]

Closed nose returns.