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Formula 1/F1/Formula One

#824
2022 McLaren unveiled...

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#828
Even more important -- the return of aero in the undertray. That's where teams will make up for the removal of protrusions on the top of the car.

In other words, the nerds will shift from pushing the car down to sucking the car down... or as the Haas nerds will proceed, just sucking.

ShawnG said:
It will be very interesting to see how the aero evolves this year. No protrusions/teeth on the sides of the floorboards, etc. If not disallowed by the rules, I expect it won’t look like this by the end of spring testing.
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I had the chance to attend Indy back in the late eighties as a guest of the team sponsoring Bobby Rahal (can’t remember who he was racing for back then, Budweiser car, my father in law was a customer of one of the big sponsors and got us the tickets) back in the day of ground effect and we had a dinner the night before the race with the team, etc. One of the engineers was at our table and I remember him telling me that at some relatively low speed (100mph?) the underbody ground effect produced enough suction to allow the car to run upside down on the ceiling at that speed. The physics of the underbody aero is pretty impressive.
 
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#830
Great nugget on driving IndyCars inverted... I've always enjoyed that one. It's even cooler that it could (in theory) take place at such a slow speed.

Some good info on the '22 cars here...

Gary Anderson: What 2022-style F1 ground effect looks like - The Race


ShawnG said:
I had the chance to attend Indy back in the late eighties as a guest of the team sponsoring Bobby Rahal (can’t remember who he was racing for back then, Budweiser car, my father in law was a customer of one of the big sponsors and got us the tickets) back in the day of ground effect and we had a dinner the night before the race with the team, etc. One of the engineers was at our table and I remember him telling me that at some relatively low speed (100mph) the underbody ground effect produced enough suction to allow the car to run upside down on the ceiling at that speed. The physics of the underbody aero is pretty impressive.
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#833
A lot of differences between the Ferrari and the McLaren. A LOT! Check out the huge diffuser exhaust on the Ferrari. This could get really interesting.
There is a fair amount of skepticism that the rules changes will actually allow much closer racing through the turns (I hope it does), but with as much diversity in design as you’re seeing between Ferrari and McLaren, I think you’ll see some significant performance differences at the beginning of the season.
 

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