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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 3, 2022 14:46:17 GMT -8
Pre-season running in Barcelona gave us a first proper look at the 2022 Formula 1 cars and a particular source of intrigue is the outer edge of the floors. Mark Hughes looks at why this is such a crucial area and why teams like Mercedes have settled for unique approaches – with a technical illustration from Giorgio Piola.Because of the wide variation in cooling layouts and the associated sidepod design of the new generation of cars, the way in which teams are striving to maximise the effectiveness of the underbody venturi tunnels is similarly varied. The most visible area of this differentiation is in the wildly different contouring and detail of the outer edges of the floor. Although accelerating the airflow over the top of that floor, down the side of the sidepods (via the coke bottle section) is crucially important in maximising the effectiveness of the tunnels beneath, the contouring of the very edges of the floor is all about manipulating what the airflow is doing beneath.
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