I'm pretty sure that the shark fin is not allowed to make contact with the rear wing any longer. Perhaps the fin you're seeing on the current car will be removed later once they've gathered some data with it fitted. I know there's been a long debate about whether or not a shark fin is actually helpful (at least this was true up until 2010 when the F-Duct arrived).Flanker27 wrote:i don't think that the rear wing actuator is so big..
anyway i wonder why their shark fin is so "squared" and not linked to the wing actuator (similar to last year ferrari shark fin shape, when not running f-duct)
Or indeed perhaps the planned update is to copy the Renault system and have front exiting exhausts...segedunum wrote:There's rumours of a much bigger exhaust update at some point. It would be most unlike Newey not to return to his pet project of exhausts feeding directly into the diffuser.
thanks mate, i missed this change in the rulesforty-two wrote:I'm pretty sure that the shark fin is not allowed to make contact with the rear wing any longer. Perhaps the fin you're seeing on the current car will be removed later once they've gathered some data with it fitted. I know there's been a long debate about whether or not a shark fin is actually helpful (at least this was true up until 2010 when the F-Duct arrived).Flanker27 wrote:i don't think that the rear wing actuator is so big..
anyway i wonder why their shark fin is so "squared" and not linked to the wing actuator (similar to last year ferrari shark fin shape, when not running f-duct)
As we've seen today it's quite tricky to get it to work. Petrov did only 28 laps. If they were planing something as radical, they'd probably start testing and calibrating it as soon as possible.forty-two wrote:Or indeed perhaps the planned update is to copy the Renault system and have front exiting exhausts...segedunum wrote:There's rumours of a much bigger exhaust update at some point. It would be most unlike Newey not to return to his pet project of exhausts feeding directly into the diffuser.
mith wrote:It's sculpted that way to act as an end of shark fin.RacingManiac wrote:Why is their rear wing adjustment thing so big and bulky anyway.....unless that pod serves a different purpose still...
Really? I wouldn't call it hilarious just yet.... interesting, suprising perhaps but not even actually funny just yet IMO.Diesel wrote:ROFL. Teams talking about copying Renault's exhaust system when it's not even been proven to work! This is hilarious.
Curious that this is the same KERS system as in 2009 without any additional power and where many teams couldn't justify the extra weight. Teams are going to have to work hard to make KERS pay overall, but they all have to implement it now because it's so critical to track position."Packaging is a challenge with KERS and the big challenge is to try and come up with a solution that doesn't compromise the aerodynamics too much, otherwise you drop the performance benefit that you get from putting KERS on."
Well, superficially. Now that the additional decks above the diffuser are gone there's a lot of space above the diffuser. It's a branched RB5 rear end really.H. Zedozil wrote:The rear end is way smaller than RB6 right?
Does the thing have a gearbox?creedbratton wrote:Look at where the rear wishbones are connected to the chassis/gearbox!
Car looks long. Could be because the sidepods are short but still I think it is a very long car. Be interested to see a wheelbase comparison. Any clever bods out there done a comparison yet?astracrazy wrote:loving how tiny and tight the sidepods and rear end is
I assume you mean that the KERS specification is the same as in 2009, as I don't believe Red Bull ever ran KERS in 2009?segedunum wrote: Curious that this is the same KERS system as in 2009 without any additional power and where many teams couldn't justify the extra weight. Teams are going to have to work hard to make KERS pay overall, but they all have to implement it now because it's so critical to track position.