It's better to wait for the car to hit the track for things such as this, in a studio they can put whatever ride height they want.
I think every launch thread for every car in the past decade has had the same comment lol
I'm looking at where the rear floor edge ends with respect to the tyre and tyre rim... and it seems to sit slightly higher than the W11 (look at studio photo)
... It's worth keeping in mind that the cut-back floor WILL HAVE this visual effect from this viewing angle, just picture the W11 having a narrower floor there, or the W12 with last year's floor, it "stretches down towards the ground" at the back, doesn't it?mkay wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 00:48I'm looking at where the rear floor edge ends with respect to the tyre and tyre rim... and it seems to sit slightly higher than the W11 (look at studio photo)
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It's a cover to hide the details.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 06:46The covering on the sides of coke bottle area is what catches my interest. It looks either to be a cover to hide something or it is a type of heat resistant covering not seen on other Mercedes powered cars.
If you mean the sides of the coke bottle area just ahead of the rear axle, I think that's just the shape of the cooling exit. Merc for the past few seasons have tended to alternate (depending on ambient conditions and circuit characteristics) between a 'V' style opening (looks like a 'V' from the rear, with the bodywork exit walls creating a gap to the gearbox casing) or a long (horizontally) exit, with the exits beside the gearbox casing essentially closed off. Red Bull have completely closed off this area in their 16B, giving it a very tight rear coke bottle shape.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 06:46The covering on the sides of coke bottle area is what catches my interest. It looks either to be a cover to hide something or it is a type of heat resistant covering not seen on other Mercedes powered cars.
"Completely closed off" lol, that would make for a bit of a compromise in the drag and cooling efficiency department, don't you think? ... I'd like to know what you base this on, as we're (as far as I'm aware) yet to see a single photo/digital render of the RB16B's rear heat outlets, I mean, sure, based on the released pictures the "heat exhaust tunnels" seem to start higher on the sides of the engine cover and have more arch to them than before, but I'm willing to bet the outlets themselves will still be larger than the Merc's, as it's been tradition for Red Bull in recent seasons...
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It just looks that way from the following, lightened image:HungarianRacer wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 17:06"Completely closed off" lol, that would make for a bit of a compromise in the drag and cooling efficiency department, don't you think? ... I'd like to know what you base this on, as we're (as far as I'm aware) yet to see a single photo/digital render of the RB16B's rear heat outlets, I mean, sure, based on the released pictures the "heat exhaust tunnels" seem to start higher on the sides of the engine cover and have more arch to them than before, but I'm willing to bet the outlets themselves will still be larger than the Merc's, as it's been tradition for Red Bull in recent seasons...
I wonder if they try to get them to act as extractors - using the airflow along the outside of the bodywork to pull the cooling air through the car. As you say, getting more air through is perhaps more important than minimum drag - this is an area of the car that is already pretty drag-inducing anyway, so perhaps any drag gains would be so small as to be lost in the "noise".