On the back of his first pole position last weekend, Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas topped the second day of in-season testing at Sakhir. The Finn ejoyed a trouble-free day and completed a massive 143 laps.
I was thinking something similar.. More like it can release some air to 'make' a blown T-wing or somethingAnthropolyte wrote:Very peculiar. Can't think of anything it would go through to other than the rear of the intake, so perhaps some sort of bypass that releases air at high speed?
Sort of like a chimney?PhillipM wrote:With the lower rear wing, are they testing to see if venting some of the hot air out of the top and let the T-wing loft it so it doesn't interfere is better than venting out of the rear of the sidepods given there's less room from the bigger diffuser and tyres?
Anthropolyte wrote:Very peculiar. Can't think of anything it would go through to other than the rear of the intake, so perhaps some sort of bypass that releases air at high speed?
I don't see any benefit from this solution
Titanic chimney .
It looks like it has a silver lip around it so I'd say a gap. It also looks like the fin stays that wide right down to the engine cover. but it is hard to tell from that picture.godlameroso wrote:Is that a hole or is it flat, because if it's flat it's just like the Williams.
Right but besides lubricating the rotating and reciprocating assembly inside the engine, there's other places you can pump oil to. There's external tanks, and other things we know nothing about, with various valves, and check valves and fittings.dren wrote:I'd say they are probably pumping oil with their oil pump.godlameroso wrote:I'd say it's most likely a valve within the oil system than the actual pump, unless of course it's an experimental pump, and they're doing something clever with it
Yes you can see that the gap in the wing is about 90 degrees to the cover, and about 45 from the ground, the whole fin opens and closes around this "chimney"joseff wrote:Hole on top of fin looks like a chimney exhaust for cooling. The radiator is at the top of the Mercedes logo.
PhillipM wrote:Is it me or does it look like Merc are running a very low rpm limit today across all the engines? That's 3 Merc cars all recording 276.9kph at the speed trap...and the Mercedes itself is as close as makes no difference too.
Typically the airbox splits into many different tubes that run to different coolers. There's nothing to say that a hot air exhaust can't run through the gaps between those tubes.Anthropolyte wrote:Very peculiar. Can't think of anything it would go through to other than the rear of the intake, so perhaps some sort of bypass that releases air at high speed?
