FORCE INDIA VJM08 - SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX - TECHNICAL ANALYSIS by
Alberto Rodríguez · ·
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Singapore is a key point in the calendar of Formula 1 circuits With low drag out of sight, the teams return to the traditional settings of high and medium downforce which is in the final sprint towards the end of the world championship.
The cars will not return more factories so the teams take advantage of free practice to test parts that will be in permanent plots and not a semi-urban.
In the case of Force India, who was rumored to take Marina Bay Street Circuit a back of his VJM08-B renewed. And so it has been a redesigned Monkey Seat anchored to the central support of the rear spoiler (cyan) divided his plane into 3 sections (yellow) and similar endplates to those already employed (green), but that are not subject to the structure impact . Mercedes similar to trying to exploit the exhaust gases at the bottom of this component to be wrapped by the flat drifts creating a pressure gradient with the air flow descending from the engine cover 3 above concept fins, with the help of the rise caused by high temperature gases from combustion engine fed with these low pressures, the depression formed in the rear wing to increase its downforce.
Promoting this update has been a central section of the renewed Y150 diffuser with the return of the 2 fins surrounding the impact structure and gurney strip maintains its division, but the range expansion maximizes airflow at different speeds trying to collect a greater volume with the help of Monkey Seat, connecting with the rear wing.
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