Hello everyone!
Firstly, let me say I'm not sure if this is technically the correct place to post this - it touches on a few subjects. Please feel free to move if necessary.
Anyway, as I was reading the F14-T thread, I got to thinking about Ferrari's possible air-liquid intercooler, and how that heat must still be dumped from the liquid into the air somehow. Now, please keep in mind, I'm a computer guy before a car guy, so this may just be crazy talk, but I was thinking where the ideal place would be to put a radiator on an F1 car to dissipate heat, and my first thought was the floor.
1) The floor already has a large surface area exposed to a lot of airflow
2) If they were to make the floor a metal radiator instead of putting a metal radiator somewhere else (higher up) on the car, it ought to have a lower center of gravity. assuming they have the same mass, there shouldn't be a downside there.
3) the radiator would cause the air underneath the car to heat up, allowing the possibility to use it to some aerodynamic advantage
Or if not the floor, maybe ferrari is trying to energize air in a different area of the car to emulate the blown diffuser?
Anyway, let me know what you guys think!