Thread: Two solutions: Red Bull Racing and Marussia

Two solutions: Red Bull Racing and Marussia

Authoritative British expert James Allen compared the effectiveness of two technical solutions teams from different ends of the table on which they worked on the tests in Jerez...
James Allen: "a Formula 1 car is constantly being improved. On the first winter tests, culminating today in Jerez, many have already traveled more than a thousand kilometers, first focusing on reliability, then technical solutions to achieve gain speed. How is this work?
Downforce is a key element of cars of Formula 1, and one of the main differences between machines leaders and outsiders just at her level. Let's compare two solutions with different poles of the peloton - Marussia and Red Bull Racing on the example of the resulting figure aerodynamic paint.
Marussia



Look carefully at the duct of the cooling system rear brakes new car Marussia. You see the so-called cascade of several elements, which plays a major role to create this model clamping force at the rear wheels.
Drag the paint is applied before leaving the rider of the boxes, and the resulting after his return figure allows to evaluate the structure of the air flow.
By car Marussia items at the bottom, covered with a relatively uniform layer of paint, and the upper air flow is destroyed. This cascade does not work. Its geometry is too aggressive and far from ideal pattern suggests that the team will need to work hard in a wind tunnel - this part of the design of the machine will have to develop again.
Red Bull Racing



Now look at the picture of the lower part of the rear wing on the new machine Red Bull Racing. Immediately noticeable, how perfect is the layer of paint, laid airflow - this aerodynamic element is in full compliance with the design engineers.
Irregularities on the right - the error does not designers, and technique, not evenly allotted paint before the driver left the boxes.