F1.Ru wrote:turbof1 wrote:It's an orgasm of aerodynamics:
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@F1.Ru: I'm so glad you asked.
First of all, frankly Gary "the" Anderson is often very wrong. I'd not take his word for granted. He is implying that an endplate needs to be bent in order to be good, which I in all honesty have a laugh with. Red Bull and Mclaren for instance have even less a bend in their endplates..................
Thanks Turbo for answering i was also thinking something like that and thats why when someone like Gary THE Anderson become paranoid with the Ferrari End plate design i started to wonder is is only End plate or it is load balanceing of wing that Mr. Anderson is referring ........... either way it is not so much a things as it is the front wing cascade and planes........ they do the major part......... so i think now he should focus on those parts and try to tell Ferrari should do more in those section like Mecc....or Mecca
I should clarify that the endplate does play quite an important role, simply because there are vortices rolling off its tips, and teams do use those vortices to shape airflow around the tyre. However teams can easily replicate those vortices without an endplate.
(You can compare them to the front camera's. If ever given the choice, teams will inmediately drop them to never run them again. But they don't have that choice, so what do they do?
-Before 2014: run them inbetween the pylon right above the neutral section to create downforce from it)
-From 2014 onwards: Rather high above the nose as flow conditioners.)
That being said, endplates have been so long around in F1 and teams have so much knowledge about it, that you can have widespread designs between teams yet the performance difference will hardly matter between 2 different concepts.
That's where I feel Gary Anderson went completely ignorant: just because an endplate is more bent at its back does not mean it'll work better. The most important thing is and always will be how the flow structures of the front wing are;
the endplate will always be designed according to that, never the other way around. When Ferrari introduced their car with their new endplate on it, it was clear that they actually already had developed a new front wing.
The reason why they first introduced the endplate and then later the front wing itself, is simply down to the front wing having a particular long production time.
