LOL, hoping to pinch the Mclaren guy perhaps and probably a pointer that they haven't really figured it out yet.Jeez that was quick
Edited by femi, 11 March 2010 - 22:23.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:15
LOL, hoping to pinch the Mclaren guy perhaps and probably a pointer that they haven't really figured it out yet.Jeez that was quick
Edited by femi, 11 March 2010 - 22:23.
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:17
We have another thread for the rear wing discussion, let's keep it there so other people can read it too.
http://forums.autosp...w...80&start=80
People can read it here, afterall this thread is about the MP4-25.
For what it's worth, I agree with you both. I think this is a subject deserving of its own thread (especially as other teams will no doubt come up with their versions). It's also very relevent to the MP4-25 discussion. So I think there's space for discussion in both places.The problem is that you have to scroll through pages of other discussion to pick out the relevant bits. Without that other thread you'd need to start reading at around page 150, what page are we on now? That would be a lot of reading just to catch up on and discuss the rear wing. It's interesting enough in it's own right...
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:17
Yes it was Sunday, the last test day. The day they began doing setups on the car with the upgrades.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:19
Cheers alex - awesome last line. Odds on Mac's lawyer using it if any rival does appeal this to the ICA have to be short ...Wrong way round.
Imagine a cooling slot that vents into the cockpit. Without the driver's knee there, that's what it does. There just so happens to be a duct connected to that all the way through to the back of the rear wing. When the driver happens to accidentally cover the cooling slot with his knee, instead of following the path of least resistance into the cockpit, the air travels down the duct and stalls the wing.
Which is just a coincidence.
The main function is to cool the cockpit, and unless the driver's knee just so happens to cover the cockpit opening, that's what it does. So, nothing moves, it's all static.
If you ban the driver's body from affecting the airflow, you essentially ban his head.
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Love it.I am very sorry, but I just have to post it here:
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:31
Could you remind me which day you were there at Barca? Was it the Sunday?
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:33
As I understand the 25 escape being a donkey.
And it certainly provide them with a lot of speed to pass on the straits.
Still can they dominate this year?
I doubt it: the system will possibly not working perfectly yet (and for sure no advantage at all at low speed tracks).
And I'm convinced it will be banned in the future but can be a effective tool this year.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:34
Yes
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:38
The expressed pessimisms about the car have proved wrong so far. Even you stated that the car improved as the last day of testing went on but you need to remember that there was no way they were going to get the best out of that car on that one day. The drivers you mentioned could only present what they percieved but I would take the word of an outspoken Mclaren driver over theirs - JB stated that the car had no weakness to speak off.
The team are in Bahrain with further updates and I don't think those will just be on the car as decorations. I just don't agree with your best case scenario of 5th position and you accuse me of being irrepressibly optimistic?
Edited by jjcale, 11 March 2010 - 22:45.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:43
I am very sorry, but I just have to post it here:
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:46
thanks, that was my idea of how it worked also, but then if there is a valve in the duct, wouldnt it be a moveable aero device??
well thanks for the answer
Edited by alexbiker, 11 March 2010 - 22:48.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:46
I am very sorry, but I just have to post it here:
Posted 11 March 2010 - 22:47
The ventilators I work with daily switch flow using the Coanda effect - you can use a small flow of air - like the one flowing from the snorkel - to switch a large flow of air from one channel to another - they could be using the snorkel to favour flow into the wing, stalling the wing, whilst with the cockpit duct open it flows over the gearbox oil cooler.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:02
I didnt say best case 5th. I said I expect 5th. 2 cars faster equals 5th. I said best case a podium in a nondramatic race (TBH I expect Redbull 1-2 or one Redbull and a Ferrari in front).
Do you think the other teams are not also bringing small updates?
Anyway this race is not being run on the Sunday of the last test in Barca. It is being held 2 weeks later on a different track in different conditions. The biggest unknown right now is not upgrades (except for Merc) it is how the higher temps will affect the various teams/drivers.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:15
And, for that matter, Sauber/Williams/Force India not looking half bad either. Mclaren could well get a podium or even win the race, but a worst case scenario would be much worse than a podium "for sure".I admire your irrepressible optimism... Its not just my observation its Heidfeld's as well as other more knowledgeable observers. I am as much a fan as you are but I dont know what your opinion is based on .... how can it be worst case a podium with 4 teams so close at the top?
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:16
ah interesting, thanks a lot
Edited by alexbiker, 11 March 2010 - 23:23.
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:29
teams without a sharkfin or a whaletail will surely not be able to implement this without redisgning their engine cover completely right?
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:30
I've replied on Scarbs' site - I wonder if there's enough mass flow through a small snorkel into what must be both a small and very long tract to stall a two-foot wide wing moving at 200mph. Maybe this is it?
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:39
There are some very fast corners at Barcelona too (turn 9?), presumably the system was tested there and worked fine.They'll be doing 190mph into turn 1 at Suzuka and needing the rear wing - this has to be an on/off system - if the airbox inlet were contributing, they could go fast enough to stall without driver input, at some point, and a headwind could stall the wing, maybe half way round the corner.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:41
There are some very fast corners at Barcelona too (turn 9?), presumably the system was tested there and worked fine.
Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:49
Edited by OwenC93, 11 March 2010 - 23:49.
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 23:50
Here's a link to the advanced drawing I did with my engineering software (MS Paint):
This is my theory - they've made a fluid logic switch with no moving parts to turn the rear wing on or off at will.
1. Is the large mass flow of air coming from the airbox inlet in the roll hoop. It's enough to stall the wing or cool the gearbox.
Because of the Coanda effect, air will naturally stick to one side of the v-shaped split or the other, because that's what air does. It's an extension of the Bernoulli effect.
2. In usual driving, there's a small flow through port 2. This means that the airflow will "stick" the side of the V supplying the gearbox cooler (4) and the rear wing will work normally, and the vent in the cockpit is open, cooling the driver.
3. When the driver puts his knee over the cockpit vent, he seals it off. That means air flows into the control port (3) and switches the airflow from the gearbox cooler to the back side of the rear wing (5), stalling the wing and greatly increasing the straight line speed. The flow through 3 is greater than 2, so that's what happens.
As soon as he gets to the corner, the driver takes his knee off the vent, the cockpit is cooled, and the rear wing starts working again. No moving parts, no movable aerodynamic devices.
Powerfully clever.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 00:07
hey big guns - you still doubt me?
Posted 12 March 2010 - 00:09
This is really a test of the "New" FIA under Todt. It's been declared legal under the rules, everyone seems clear it's legal, but I'm sure some nasty bugger will protest it - will it be banned under a whim if certain teams moan?
Journalists report never being allowed close to the MP4-18, despite it never having been raced. Was this one of the secrets McLaren were hiding, waiting for a reasonable FIA to race it?
Posted 12 March 2010 - 00:19
lol nope! He was running at the correct weight limit. It'd be Hamilton and Rosberg underweight. To be honest it would be a shock for any F1 driver to be on the pace due to the fact they don't drive karts as often.
However, you have to remember that the other weekend de Vries was owning drivers that Schumacher couldn't get near the other month in Las vegas.
This kid is the real deal!
Posted 12 March 2010 - 00:26
Slow down big guy, a good karting driver does not always make a good F1 driver
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there is no way this stall wing is the next dd diffusor. not a chance. according to scarbs it might give 3-4 km/h of top speed advantage.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 01:15
Some people have been saying in this thread that the latest McLaren updates have been forced on them by the FIA, is there anything to this? I haven't seen it anywhere else.
Posted 12 March 2010 - 01:23
there is no way this stall wing is the next dd diffusor. not a chance. according to scarbs it might give 3-4 km/h of top speed advantage.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 01:48
Do you really think macca did all this work for 4kmh on some straights?
Has to be alot more to it then that.
(I hope)
Edited by Talisker, 12 March 2010 - 01:49.
Posted 12 March 2010 - 02:20
Jeez that was quick
Posted 12 March 2010 - 02:35
Also, that speed advantage would develop at those points on the circuit that tend to offer the best overtaking opportunities.According to my maths, that's potentially quite a significant gain.
Let's say that at a given circuit there is 250m of straight bits where the car would have done 250km/h but now does 254km/h because of the snorkel thing. It would have taken 0.25*3600/250 = 3.6 seconds to do these bits of track. It now takes 0.25*3600/254 = 3.54 seconds. That's 0.06 seconds a lap. Not to be sneezed at.
Obviously this is massively simplifying the numbers and assumptions, but it's probably reasonably conservative.
Posted 12 March 2010 - 02:49
Also, that speed advantage would develop at those points on the circuit that tend to offer the best overtaking opportunities.
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Edited by klyster, 12 March 2010 - 06:26.
Posted 12 March 2010 - 06:39
if they are not good in slow and medium corners then they wont be close enough to use it to overtake cars.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 06:40
Well i think the point is that they can run more wing so will be good in the med speed corners.