Scuderia Ferrari SF90

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Just_a_fan
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https://twitter.com/AlbertFabrega/statu ... 01539?s=20
Presumably an attempt to add front end downforce. Looks like a mini car underfloor below the nose.
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Vertical fins on the floor too
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Along with revised ones in front of the rear wheels
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2008 said hello, hope it doesn't disrupt flow into the floor
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I thought you have to create a twist in the channel so the you cannot see through, am I wrong?

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It’s basically a mini cape behind the new nose - interesting that they still chose not to extend the cape further ala Mercedes et al; you’d think there’d be some dirty downforce available in doing that.

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timbo wrote:
19 Sep 2019, 14:06
I thought you have to create a twist in the channel so the you cannot see through, am I wrong?
I think the Ferrari nose already meets the two cross section regulation thus this is only an add-on below the nose structure. The RP & Alfa noses employ a trick in the regulations to include those slots in the structure but they still have to comply with the cross-section rules & enclosed surface rule (?), thus they cannot be "see through" like here.

My reasoning at least...

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Some nice shots:
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f1316 wrote:
19 Sep 2019, 14:45
It’s basically a mini cape behind the new nose - interesting that they still chose not to extend the cape further ala Mercedes et al; you’d think there’d be some dirty downforce available in doing that.
But drag too, a lot of it.
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Singapore rear wing
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A nice close-up of the steering wheel
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It's not exactly new, now i believe it's been introduced in Hungary together with the new barge boards, but definitely flown under the radar in this topic is the new(ish) support for the X-vane (black element connecting the X-vane to the crash structure).

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Ashwinv16 wrote:
19 Sep 2019, 16:32
f1316 wrote:
19 Sep 2019, 14:45
It’s basically a mini cape behind the new nose - interesting that they still chose not to extend the cape further ala Mercedes et al; you’d think there’d be some dirty downforce available in doing that.
But drag too, a lot of it.
Which I wouldn’t expect them to be concerned about in somewhere like Singapore.

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f1316 wrote:
19 Sep 2019, 14:45
It’s basically a mini cape behind the new nose - interesting that they still chose not to extend the cape further ala Mercedes et al; you’d think there’d be some dirty downforce available in doing that.
It's point isn't to create downforce per se, but rather create a vortex. For example Mercedes has the cape much longer than everyone else, but they also don't run the vertical elements under the nose.
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