The world is over, but all over the paddock engineers are damning their souls for the crumbs of second place.
Despite the performance of Ferrari, It must recognize that designers in Maranello are not standing still.
For the American trip Ferrari has brought a new front wing has two blowholes on forward flap in the part farthest from the side plate which has a slightly curved shape up.
During the free practice were tested once again the switches of the bridge to flow to the side plates in front of which, however, were once again set aside.
At the rear you were chosen by a high load downforce configuration characterized by a rear wing with a leading edge very pronounced and a fairly high median curvature. The blowholes present on the upper part of the side plate are five and was confirmed, also, the small slot in the lower part of the wing itself. To further maximize the load downforce shall also be used monkeyseat connected to the lower profile of the rear wing. Under the nose of the turningvanes three elements were chosen.
We talked last week on the use by Red Bull Polysil realized by Nanoprom Sassuolo. From Austin images it is noticed that also Ferrari uses this specific material within their own circles.
Important to note that, some teams, as Red Bull and Mercedes over Polysil to add a sort of knurling inside the circles that has the function of limiting the turbulence that are generated in this very sensitive area for 'overall aerodynamics of the car.
The ruler of the weekend and second parts of the world was the Red Bull. No major news to report on the car Newey has confirmed that the proven front wing for the first time during free practice of the GP of India and, afterwards, used by both drivers at the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi.Le main feature of this version of the wing that does differentiate from proceeding model are drifts located upstream of the forward flap (yellow circle), and warped slightly larger than the previous model.
How often it is going on in these last races, the pilots of Red Bull were shot with different load levels at the rear. As you can see from the photo below, Vettel used the rear wing more download than his teammate Webber.
The two wings are differentiated by the shape of the main profile while it is exactly equal in blowholes on the upper part of the bulkhead (five) and in the slit in the lower part.
On Red Bull has views, in the back area, a modification to the bodywork in the area of the large oval vent in the part of the bodywork terminal stessa.Questo vent is used to cool in the best way the rear part of the car and above the shift area where Newey has also positioned part of the battery used to power the kers.
As you can see from the below comparison now the outburst has a perfectly oval whereas before it had a slightly different design and, in the upper part presented, a small flare (green rectangle).
Red Bull on the thing that has aroused most interest is the excessive decline in the T-Tray area.
When the car is lowered by trestles, after replacing tires, the knife touches the bottom area and causes an incredible T-Tray mount deformation. It 's really amazing how RB9 able to overcome the very strict controls imposed by the FIA in this particular area of the car while having a very flexible knife zone.
We recall that Article 3.17.5 the technical regulations of the FIA, the fund must not flex more than a certain value (5 mm under a vertical load of 2000N is applied in three different points of the bottom and side of the center line at a distance of 100mm).
[Source: Sports Republic]
