2017 tyre testing cars

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Thunders wrote:A few more Pictures of the modified Ferrari:
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That looks sexy

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Different treads on the tires between left and right?!

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Someone please photoshop that rearwing lower! Let us get a little taster of what to expect [-o<

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Mamba wrote:Someone please photoshop that rearwing lower! Let us get a little taster of what to expect [-o<

Frankly, Im loving this treatment very much. Almost makes me wish this design was the 2017 new spec. The end plates are magnificent. Also eager to hear driver impressions...

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RedBull not as visually obvious where they're simulating the 2017 downforce levels (perhaps baseline with 2015/2016 levels first?)

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Beam wing and skirts.
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j2004p wrote:
RedBull not as visually obvious where they're simulating the 2017 downforce levels (perhaps baseline with 2015/2016 levels first?)
It looks to have a beam wing and modified diffuser. They look to be adding downforce just in a different way.

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Given the manner in which each team has chosen to simulate 2017 downforce levels, the aero gap between Ferrari and Red Bull is clearly massive.

Ferrari showed up with a barn door attached to the back of its car; Red Bull runs less wing.

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Mamba wrote:Someone please photoshop that rearwing lower! Let us get a little taster of what to expect [-o<
Here are the two photoshops i created with the rear wing lowered, if u guys want more just ask here
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henry wrote:Beam wing and skirts.
I don't see the skirts on the Red Bull - where are you seeing them?

Couldn't get much of a view of the diffuser either but must be something - beam wing alone surely not enough to get close to kind of loads we're expecting next year.

Remarkable how much difference the tyres make - and the wider rear wing too, even when high - and how that aesthetic improvement just makes such a difference to perception.

Cool looking cars are ultimate more interesting than ugly ones (you heard it here first!)

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f1316 wrote:
henry wrote:Beam wing and skirts.
I don't see the skirts on the Red Bull - where are you seeing them?

Couldn't get much of a view of the diffuser either but must be something - beam wing alone surely not enough to get close to kind of loads we're expecting next year.

Remarkable how much difference the tyres make - and the wider rear wing too, even when high - and how that aesthetic improvement just makes such a difference to perception.

Cool looking cars are ultimate more interesting than ugly ones (you heard it here first!)
On the side of the floor. They look about 50mm deep . Unlike the Ferrari they don't look designed to run along the ground. Probably just down to the reference plane.
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f1316 wrote: I don't see the skirts on the Red Bull - where are you seeing them?
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The skirts are not touching the ground like the Ferrari ones did but they are visible here as a curtain from the floor. Beam wing also visible.

In the rear vies, RedBull have added a much large additional flap on the diffuser to replace the usual little version they all run these days.
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The diffuser gurney also got bigger than current rules allow.

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atlantis wrote:

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Different treads on the tires between left and right?!
They appear to be directional tyres but they aren't mounted directionally. Strange.
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