Top view comparison of AMR22 and VF22
The cars look so much better with less rake!bagajohny wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 19:02Actual car at the launch event.
https://i.ibb.co/HPPkjZ2/h21q8ol2s0h81- ... -tta-1.png
https://ibb.co/YddqxgW
Hard to tell without seeing the under floor strakes. Those will determine what the airflow under the floor is going to do. When bodywork makes air turn into itself, or expand the static pressure rises. When bodywork converges it accelerates air. But when air reaches a critical speed, converging it will raise static pressure and expanding it will accelerate it further. The air going under the car can reach such speeds, but not the air going over the car.AeroDynamic wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 17:53the floor detail looks interesting, can someone who can see aero comment on this compared to the other floors so far?
https://i.imgur.com/pN1H3Jy.png
The more I look at that the more convinced I am that the outer ‘flat’ section is recessed at the bottom. Almost as it it is a filler panel.timbo wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:47The flat area right next to the intakes.JordanMugen wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:02Yes. What flat panel do you mean?
I don't think the minimum radius rule applies to the junction of the floor and the sidepod.
https://i.postimg.cc/FsF3TBqy/2022-02-10-19-46-04.png
There also doesn’t seem to be an outer part of the hinge, are they using the remaining outer section as a very big flexure hinge?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:59The hinge design is also obviously designed to shed a vortex with that nice big triangle of metal sticking up in to the airflow at a slight angle to the stream.
There's something visible in this image at the far end of the front wing. Another little metal triangle. I'm guessing that it is the location of a hinge point.Stu wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 20:09There also doesn’t seem to be an outer part of the hinge, are they using the remaining outer section as a very big flexure hinge?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:59The hinge design is also obviously designed to shed a vortex with that nice big triangle of metal sticking up in to the airflow at a slight angle to the stream.
Certainly looks like it.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 20:22There's something visible in this image at the far end of the front wing. Another little metal triangle. I'm guessing that it is the location of a hinge point.Stu wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 20:09There also doesn’t seem to be an outer part of the hinge, are they using the remaining outer section as a very big flexure hinge?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:59
The hinge design is also obviously designed to shed a vortex with that nice big triangle of metal sticking up in to the airflow at a slight angle to the stream.
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The two "kinks" could serve to energize the flow to prevent stalling of the diffusser and keep the flow attached while working the floor harder than possible without the kinks?jjn9128 wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:20The venturi looks like it's doing this... or am i seeing things?!
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Are you not really reading to much into a render of a FW? I mean, only one side of the car has a pushrodStu wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 20:09There also doesn’t seem to be an outer part of the hinge, are they using the remaining outer section as a very big flexure hinge?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Feb 2022, 18:59The hinge design is also obviously designed to shed a vortex with that nice big triangle of metal sticking up in to the airflow at a slight angle to the stream.