Ferrari với mẹo loop - side box
SF70H có một chi tiết "không giống xe nào" đó là cái khung (loop) trước cửa lấy gió làm mát. Nhìn qua thì tưởng là cửa lấy gió nhưng nhín gần thì thấy nó chỉ lả chi tiết gắn thêm trước cửa lấy gió. Ngay cả phù thủy Adrian Newey cũng không hiểu nổi: "I do not understand the Ferrari solution." Cánh kỹ sư các đối thủ đã phát hiện ra mẹo của chief designer Simone Resta, trick the new side box regulations.
Clause 3.8.8. Prescribes a slight sweep backwards for the front edge of the side boxes. The angle to the longitudinal axis must be 75 degrees. It is a rule of optics. Together with the delta front wing and the rear-angled tail wing end plates, this is to give the car from the bird's perspective an aggressive arrow shape.
The aerodynamics do not like the arrow form. You would prefer a right-angled arrangement.Because the baffles and the approach of the side boxes work together better and the flow is easier to guide around the side parts.
Anyone looking at the Ferrari closely can see how Ferrari cleverly defends the FIA. Only the upstream approach is as angled as prescribed by the regulations. The side boxes themselves continue to be at a 90 degree angle to the longitudinal axis.
With this trick, Ferrari can build the side boxes shorter. The horizontal baffles lie a little farther away from the approach of the side frames and can thus better fulfill their function.
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