The all new Redbull RB2

[bernard]

Big nose, inefficient aero, perhaps the ferrari designers have had too much of an influence in the design of this car, good thing Newey will be able to fix it.

And we all know what an excellent track record newey has on designing bulletproof cars! It's practically his trademark:
Speed is nothing, reliability is everything. Newey.

[bernard]

Could someone remind me again at what temperature carbonfibre burns? Someone hasn't been doing their homework.

[Spencifer_Murphy]

LOL...uhoh that cannot be very healthy for the car.

[manchild]

Now I know why is that bull jumping of from there - heat gives him wings

[RH1300S]

You can they are worried about something, those little blue patches are heat sensitive stickers, they will show the max temp reached.

[Spencifer_Murphy]

There seems to be a serious amount of heat comming out of that engine...and I dont think all of it is in the exhaust gases either. The rear of the car is covered in those temperature markers...surely the exhaust gases dont effect THAT wide an area of the car...so (if im right about tht) they must also be measureing heat from the engine)

(If im wrong about tht then they just measureing exhaust heat LOL)

[jezzwa]

That Ferrari V8 must have some heat issues or the sidepods aren't collecting enough air

[greenpower dude reloaded]

if those sidepods aren't collecting enough air then they are gonna have to have some huge sidepods because as it has been pointed out before on this forum some of the other teams i.e. williams were already running far smaller sidepods in China and thats with the V10 so i reckon some of the other teams are gonna look like they have sidepods from an F3 car compared to RBR's attempt lol

But then i spose its also to do with the quality of air and if something infront of the sidepods is causin trouble then maybe they can be saved like tht i dunno

[kilcoo316]

The sidepods themselves are small, just the openings are huge.

Not exactly the textbook way of making a radiator duct, but they would know more about it than me...


Should make for nice flow to the diffuser though (hopefully).

[ginsu]

That Ferrari V8 must have some heat issues or the sidepods aren't collecting enough air

This could be the perfect result of the difficulties of marrying engine and
chassis. Especially when your company doesn't make the engine!

[ginsu]

Is it just me or does the v-keel look alot bigger/heavier than it needs to be? Are they doing it for drag purposes? I guess they could be, but itt doesn't make too much sense to me unless it's a structural issue.

[ginsu]

That Ferrari V8 must have some heat issues or the sidepods aren't collecting enough air

This could be the perfect result of the difficulties of marrying engine and
chassis. Especially when your company doesn't make the engine!

I read in Autosport recently that the Red Bull team got the heat rejection figures for the Ferrari V8 way wrong. That's interesting considering everybody thought the sidepods were a bit too small. I guess they actually are!

[m3_lover]

In Bernards picture, the chimneys are connected to the Downforce winglets (are they called X wings?), are not those chimneys there to direct airflow around them (besides the obvious of extracting hot air from the engine).

So my question is since the air is being deflected they are not hitting the middle of that winglet but more inside the winglet surface area, would it not be better to move the chimney forward so when the air hits the winglet it is using all the surface area of that winglet?

Is this making sense lol I am getting confused with all that writin

[zac510]

m3_lover, I think the problem is that those little winglets' primary objective is not to produce downforce. There are a few pieces of evidence that point towards this and the fact that they are not in proper airflow is one of them.

I think they are there to 'shape' the air that exits the cooling vent up over the rear wheel and any downforce they create is just a bonus. But I can't find any further quotes to confirm this. It is purely speculation on my part!

[manchild]

Is it just me or does the v-keel look alot bigger/heavier than it needs to be? Are they doing it for drag purposes? I guess they could be, but itt doesn't make too much sense to me unless it's a structural issue.

That is whay I called it a tunnel two months ago when there were no simmilar pics available

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I think that it is not similar V keel as the one Renault had, RB2 seams to have V shaped tunnel directing air that enters it directly below the floor or at splitter... It is hard to tell from these pics

http://www.f1grandprix.it/download/wall ... _RB2/7.jpg

Looks a lot like mixture of inlets between F16 and Crusader. Left and right upper ends of "V" at first glance look wider than upper part of the chassis.

http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~kourou ... es/F16.jpg

http://frenchnavy.free.fr/aircraft/crus ... er_015.JPG

I’ve been editing those photos in corel and the reason V-keel on RB2 looks so dark inside is in what I’ve suggested before – it is a tunnel reaching all the way to bargeboards and that is why it is so dark even on highly brightened photo. Simply the light can’t penetrate sideways like it can on R25 and that is why the end of it can’t be seen.

BTW, the angle and position of sides of Vee suggests that keel on RB2 actualy generates downforce since it is wider and lower at front and higher and narrower and its end.