Red Bull RB22

[Rikhart]

A change from last season. Front brake disc cover.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ-n4XPWQAA ... name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ-n678W0AA ... name=small

This looks prehistoric, when compared to Mclaren.

[Just_a_fan]

Or there is a complicted set of "pipes" within that enclosure.

[AR3-GP]

The rear wing looks like an arts and crafts project.

[AR3-GP]

Flow-viz for the nth time. I think that both the front wing and the front section of the sidepod will change in Austria.

[venkyhere]

Perhaps the lowest-of-all rear arm mounting on the chassis for the front lower wishbone ? Seems extreme.

[SilviuAgo]

Giorgio Piola has captured a much better image of the Red Bull rear wing additions (with two elements on both sides of the upper flap to generate more downforce.)


@JunaidSamodien_

[Brahmal]

Giorgio Piola has captured a much better image of the Red Bull rear wing additions (with two elements on both sides of the upper flap to generate more downforce.)

@JunaidSamodien_

Lol, those look like one of us put them on.

[AR3-GP]

I'm wondering if those are permanent additions. What exactly is the regulation that clears it? Are they rear wing brackets?

[PlatinumZealot]

Just very unusual Gurney flaps.

[venkyhere]

I'm wondering if those are permanent additions. What exactly is the regulation that clears it? Are they rear wing brackets?

I'm guessing they fall into the legality of regulations in exactly the same way that the 'finger tabs' added by Mercedes/Ferrari/Cadillac to their flap element, do.
Perhaps they provide different advantages to each car, the Redbull one looks like wanting to generate powerful vortices (apart from the extra frontal area) at the rear of the wing span itself, probably to encourage more attached flow on the low pressure side at lower speeds. Obviously not worrying about drag (direct/induced) at all.

[Badger]

I'm wondering if those are permanent additions. What exactly is the regulation that clears it? Are they rear wing brackets?

Why not? They shouldn’t be in the way during SLM.