Eddie_Temple wrote:What is going on with the bargeboards. This area appears to fit the "unusual shapes" description we've heard coming out of the Ferrari camp.
Usually I'd expect to see barge boards in the
yellow box, or thereabouts. In this drawing it looks like they are combining BATWING + BARGE Board (thus named the
Board Box) into a boxed aero-element.
The
green lines are my rough section lines of the body and the align with the white Board Box, I'm pretty good at reading drawings and I cannot see how the white surfaces are offset from the body. This or the offset is very minimal at the top edge of the barge surface, almost flush with the red bodywork.
https://postimg.org/image/ybkk1n6rj/
Do we really think this is an accurate representation of what Ferrari are planning though? Or an omission (whether deliberate or not) by the artist?
From everything I've understood so far, having the ability to return to the larger bargeboards of the pre 2009 era is likely to be something teams will look to exploit fully - so putting nothing in the yellow box seems unlikely. Can they really think that something in the green box fulfills the same role whilst, presumably, reducing drag? If so it definitely is unusual and interesting.
The t-tray area is where I would expect any unusual shapes on the Ferrari to appear though (if any do), given it was such an area of focus for them at the backend of 2016. I still find it hard to believe this won't be coupled with some kind of massive bargeboard arrangement but then maybe they think - if so many corners are going flat anyway from the increased grip and hence much more of the lap at full throttle - shedding the drag from the bargeboards is actually more beneficial (presuming they're already happy with how this bat board - see what I did? - is managing the flow)?