What happens for example with an updated front wing, if it doesn't work?
Will they destroy it, throw it away? Or can they recycle it?
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Team: James Allison (TD), Pat Fry (ED), Nikolas Tombazis (CD), Stefano Domenicali (MD), Simone Resta (DCD), Corrado Lanzone (Head of production), Luca Marmorini (HE), Rory Byrne (Tech Advisor)
Drivers: Fernando Alonso (14), Kimi Raikkonen (7)
They will do further research on it back at the factory in Maranello, they will refine and change components on her, and they will try it again in the following weeks.George-Jung wrote:What happens for example with an updated front wing, if it doesn't work?
Will they destroy it, throw it away? Or can they recycle it?
You see the sharp drop off of the previous side pods exit? That is a point where you have two streams of air moving at two different speeds. There is a distrubance when the two streams meet and off course this mean less aero efficiency. So by extending the cowling more towards the rear you are moving this point backwards where there is less influence on other flow structures downstream of the car. In other words the cleaner your flow structures upstream on the car the better efficiency you can extract from the surfaces and structures downstream of the car.beelsebob wrote:Looks like Ferrari (as well as Merc) are going for overhangs off the back of the side pods. I wonder if there's some benefit in managing to keep the air flow over the top of the diffuser nicely contained somehow.
Hopefully, you are right. However, it is not likely to be something as simple as adjustineg suspension geometry (adding negative camber, for example). If the oversteer is the result in abrupt power delivery ( a "peaky" power curve) that could be a much tougher problem to correct.rich1701 wrote:The car looks horrible to drive, mainly power oversteer. I was quite frankly astonished how competitive their lap times are considering the amount of correction the drivers have to do. Perhaps this is a good sign if the problems have a reasonably quick solution.
Honda had a similar problem in 85, Williams changed the rear suspension and found a second a lap. It's not as simple as that now though I acknowledge. Wasn't it also the case the honda abrupt power delivery was responsible for Senna's blip blip blip throttle approach? I'm just saying it's possible to adapt yourself around the characteristics of the engine. I can't see why Ferrari can't spread the power delivery a bit more from the ERS with software. Perhaps it's not possible without reducing overall BHP.donskar wrote:Hopefully, you are right. However, it is not likely to be something as simple as adjustineg suspension geometry (adding negative camber, for example). If the oversteer is the result in abrupt power delivery ( a "peaky" power curve) that could be a much tougher problem to correct.rich1701 wrote:The car looks horrible to drive, mainly power oversteer. I was quite frankly astonished how competitive their lap times are considering the amount of correction the drivers have to do. Perhaps this is a good sign if the problems have a reasonably quick solution.
So... was this from fp3?
As a matter of fact, start-finish straight in Spain is one of the longest in F1 calendar.infy wrote:If the blown wheel nut is to reduce drag on the straights then its not needed @ Spain as the straight is very small.
its the 6th or 7th longest, so yeah you could say thatPilatus wrote:As a matter of fact, start-finish straight in Spain is one of the longest in F1 calendar.infy wrote:If the blown wheel nut is to reduce drag on the straights then its not needed @ Spain as the straight is very small.
