Red Bull RB22

[Badger]

3D printer + glue working overtime. Im guessing for Monaco never to be seen again.

[Just_a_fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

I'd love to know how much downforce that's actually producing. A few 10s of N at most, surely.

[bananapeel23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

I'd love to know how much downforce that's actually producing. A few 10s of N at most, surely.

Given that Mercedes seemingly spent significant amounts of time and money from their limited budget in order to develop their solution, clearly enough for the cost/benefit tradeoff to make sense.

It’s super cool at least.

[FDD]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

Hello darkness, my old friend. Welcome back, 2001 abominations

Yeah

[Big Tea]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

I'd love to know how much downforce that's actually producing. A few 10s of N at most, surely.

It would be hilarious if, come the first qualli run, there was no sign of these devices and they were just to encourage photographers to show the adverts off.

[Just_a_fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

I'd love to know how much downforce that's actually producing. A few 10s of N at most, surely.

Given that Mercedes seemingly spent significant amounts of time and money from their limited budget in order to develop their solution, clearly enough for the cost/benefit tradeoff to make sense.

It’s super cool at least.

Merc's is somewhat more involved that RB's. Merc's links to the rear wing flap where the RB looks more like a bit of a "well, it won't hurt so why not?" thing. No doubt RB spent less.

[AR3-GP]

The purpose of devices like this is never direct load generation. They enhance the flow of the entire rear wing system.

[Just_a_fan]

The purpose of devices like this is never direct load generation. They enhance the flow of the entire rear wing system.

Of course it generates load directly. But even if one ignores that small bit of load, one has to wonder whether the device shown by RB is working the rear wing as hard as the devices shown by others.

The other question is whether the smaller, and thus likely less effective, device used by RB shows that their aero balance is pretty much front limited. No point adding more rear end downforce if the front can't balance it. And as we know that Max likes a reactive front end, does it suggest that RB's front end is aero limited? If they could add more rear downforce they would, but if the front can't balance it then they're unable to add more at the rear without inducing understeer and thus annoying Max.

Or maybe the RB solution just gives the rear enough extra to give Max confidence in it and thus it's all they need to maximise the performance of the whole aero package.

No way for any of us to know at this point.

[AR3-GP]

A change from last season. Front brake disc cover.

[michl420]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

I'd love to know how much downforce that's actually producing. A few 10s of N at most, surely.

Given that Mercedes seemingly spent significant amounts of time and money from their limited budget in order to develop their solution, clearly enough for the cost/benefit tradeoff to make sense.

It’s super cool at least.

I wouldn´t be surprised if this things had never seen a wind tunnel or maybe even cfd given the budget cap. I would make such a thing just from the experience of the designers because it is for one race only and had not that big impact (most cost/gain effective).
But I have to say, I don't know how F1 teams do it really.

[Stu]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ9V6a4XIAA ... name=large

‘Kind of, actually’ looks like a bull…

[FW17]

Why do they have the active drs pod and its mechanism, couldn't they remove it

[matteosc]

Why do they have the active drs pod and its mechanism, couldn't they remove it

In Monaco drag matters very little, it's all about downforce. Much easier to mount wings on existing drs pod. They may have removed the mechanism inside (not sure about it) for weight saving only.

[michl420]

Why do they have the active drs pod and its mechanism, couldn't they remove it

In Monaco drag matters very little, it's all about downforce. Much easier to mount wings on existing drs pod. They may have removed the mechanism inside (not sure about it) for weight saving only.

If they removed the pod the wings would work even better. But maybe they need the structure for the wing integrity or they plan to run a variation of this on outer tracks too. With their SLM mode it would be possible