PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 8:18 pm
Almost like they brought back the giant 2018 air-box!
It never left, it was there in 2019 and 2020 too. But now it's twice as big.
Crazy speculation: they ditched the sidepod double air-air intecoolers (hence the tighter sidepods?) and replaced them with a water air interccoler, placed just behind the drivers head, where the old centerline cooling system used to sit. And they put the new CCS more backwards in an upright position, like the other teams. :p
And the roll hoop hump became wider because the ducts inside it need to pass around the new water-air intercooler + the turbo duct : P
A bit like this:
-Pink = Renault CCS
-turquoise = air-air intercooler
-checkered= water air interccoler
etcetera
It's a modifed and simplified old STR drawing from @albrodpulf1 to make it look like the Renault 2018-2020 (2021?) layout
https://albrodpulf1.wordpress.com/2017/ ... unit-2017/