Team: Mattia Binotto (CTO), Simone Resta (CD), Loic Bigois (HA), David Sanchez (CA), Jock Clear (ED), Corrado Onorato (DCD), Rory Byrne (Tech Advisor), Massimo Rivola (SD), Matteo Togninalli (CRE), Maurizio Arrivabene (TP), Sergio Marchionne (Chairman)
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel (5), Kimi Raikkonen (7), Esteban Gutierrez (reserve)
Wow, love that primordial growl thru the corners ! And the car looks proper fast thru that left hander, accompanied with a great rear !CriXus wrote:HD quality footage from today's shakedown.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCfyXAhiBo
Thanks for the regulations tips roon! My main concern was the height of the upper structure, as the Ferrari configuration seems to put it a bit lower than concurrents, but this is coherent with the numbers you indicate. So if we measure the 500 mm, taking advantage of the mandatory 400 mm lenghth of the largest part of the cockpit, this would be more or less the position of those structures :roon wrote:For reference. The cars must have two side impact structures per side, fully enclosed within bodywork. They must be vertically aligned with each other and positioned 500mm in front of the back of the cockpit, when viewed from the side. The upper structure must be between 400mm and 520mm above the reference plane, and the lower one must be between 70mm and 190mm above the reference plane.
I think they've installed both structures beneath the inlet, behind the blanked-off area.
A nice solution because their inlet shape is now less dictated by the crash structures. As we see with this clever free-form shape, which draws air from both the front and above.
could just be some sort of antilag. with this years tires more torque coming out of corners can be put to the ground.RandiAndika wrote:Sounds like they running blown off exhaust gas? is it legal now?CriXus wrote:HD quality footage from today's shakedown.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCfyXAhiBo
NOPE its this " The car is running at a certain speed, let's say 50 mph, the gearbox is in 4th gear, the clutch is engaged. Now you lift your foot off the accelerator. The fuel consumption drops to zero immerdiately. The engine does not need any fuel to keep on revving, because the moving car drives the engine. In this situation you will feel a considerable amount of deceleration. This is called "engine brake". "wrcsti wrote:could just be some sort of antilag. with this years tires more torque coming out of corners can be put to the ground.RandiAndika wrote:Sounds like they running blown off exhaust gas? is it legal now?CriXus wrote:HD quality footage from today's shakedown.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCfyXAhiBo
But airbox inlet is biggerFer.Fan wrote:http://i67.tinypic.com/2zppaqc.png
http://i.imgur.com/knqp33Z.jpg
Look att size of Merc. cooling inlets compared to Ferrari. Merc. are much smaller...
yes, have mentioned that several times.
That would be exhaust braking and it's noisy and so banned from certain places. Normal car engine braking shouldn't be noisy. But this is off topic.giantfan10 wrote: try it with your own carand take note of the sound it makes..... : ) semi trucks are banned from doing that within city limits where i live because its even louder than the engine itself while on the gas
The MGU-H provides the antilag, it keeps the turbo spooled off throttle.wrcsti wrote:could just be some sort of antilag. with this years tires more torque coming out of corners can be put to the ground.RandiAndika wrote:Sounds like they running blown off exhaust gas? is it legal now?CriXus wrote:HD quality footage from today's shakedown.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCfyXAhiBo
The intakes might appear narrow, but they are quite large. Also, they need secondary air intakes on top of the sidepods and the airbox might not be as huge as Mercedes' last year, but is not tiny either...
It's really hard to tell what is the surface of the intakes from what we have seen, they are buried quite deep and are surrounded by unpainted carbon.6 of 12 wrote:The intakes might appear narrow, but they are quite large.
