On the eve of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, Mercedes showed off their long-awaited upgrades for their troubled 2023 F1 car which includes new sidepods, front suspension and floor.
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To set up the direction of rotation of the vortex it is designed to create (it's not "a deflector" as some have labelled it elsewhere). Vortices are useful in creating downwash so having the downward-rotating side where you want it can be important.
I believe it is also useful to reduce the losses from the cockpit. You can see a similar feature on most teams mirror struts with them in-washing right next to the cockpit
Yes, that makes sense. I would guess that the resulting vortex runs down the outside of the rear halo mount location, but that is only the most basic of guesses with nothing to back it up.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
Toto says that while the wind tunnel has been closed for the W14 there are more upgrades that have already been made and ones in production that are yet to come. What's note worthy is he says a big change is coming.
Does anyone remember if Mercedes brought any updates for the floor (not the edges but the underfloor)? I feel like they have been running the same floor since the beginning.
Does anyone remember if Mercedes brought any updates for the floor (not the edges but the underfloor)? I feel like they have been running the same floor since the beginning.
They changed the floor fences @ Monaco and the diffuser @ Barcelona
AFAIK RB, Haas and Merc are the only teams not to bring major 'floor body' changes this season