2012 Red Bull RB8

[Hampus Andersson]

But i have to wonder what those winglets in the brakeduct is for...

Downforce.

Some teams, Ferrari for example tried to blow them but it´s so advanced and so irregular and hard to achieve that you would probably end up cooking the tires and blowing the brake duct inlets instead.

But if you get it to work you have downforce directly on the wheels which is very good.
Problem is an F1 engine is dynamic with different rpm´s, throttle position etc so it´s very ambitious.

the brake duct fins have been around for atleast the whole 2011 season as well.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

No dirty name this year?

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Of course i know that those brake duct winglets are there for downforce. What i'm wondering is just how they are used, where do the airflow come from..

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Of course i know that those brake duct winglets are there for downforce. What i'm wondering is just how they are used, where do the airflow come from..

The air coming in parallel lines on each side of the car. Air flows through them and creates downforce directly on the wheel.
I don´t know any other "job" they have.

New sidepods,

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Brake fins looks like they are straight from DTM

 

[ENDR]

New sidepods,

Pretty unusual front wing as well

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Invisible. No body can see it flexing then

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Wonder why they put on last years wing.. or well, half of it

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Nice pictures, including one of the driver cooling duct. Notice the wood in the first picture.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Nice pictures, including one of the driver cooling duct. Notice the wood in the first picture.

Nicely spotted had to really zoom to see it. Good to see at least some organic material in the car (beside the plank in the floor, added before H.A gets a chance to mention it...), .. Heh, RBR is going Green

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Someone already mentioned it at F1T so i can´t take credit, but yes pretty damn cool
Is the plank organic? I thought they moved to a plastic type of plank in the recent years but i could be wrong on that one.

Nice to see Newey going old school

 

[Markus Neumann]

Is the plank organic? I thought they moved to a plastic type of plank in the recent years but i could be wrong on that one.

I remember Nico Rosberg saying last year that it's definitely made out of wood. He was trying to explain it to the German television crew and couldn't think of the German word for wood, so he called it 'tree'

 

[Hampus Andersson]

I remember Nico Rosberg saying last year that it's definitely made out of wood. He was trying to explain it to the German television crew and couldn't think of the German word for wood, so he called it 'tree'

Yup it´s wood, found something on F1.com that confirms it. I must have mixed it with something else.

At Monza, the FIA have introduced a new rule which means it is now prohibited to run a section of plank less than 1000mm in length. The plank is a hard wooden strip (also known as a skid block) fitted down the middle of a car's underside (see red arrow). This regulation is designed to prevent teams from running 'articulated' planks that are made up of multiple pieces.​

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Vettel and Webber running different exhaust configs in FP1.
Vettel the "old" and Webber the "new"

And some pictures,

the packaging of an F1 car is nothing but insane.

 

[Diego Lopez]

the fine detail eh? love that last pic...but honestly i think they need to drop the "how much gas i can ge tinto the rear of the car ting" because its not working, the RB was developed to evolved around blowing diffuser...Newey needs to redesign teh car at this stage or find another major loophole. but for now im not complainig that he still trying hard about changing the "philosphy' of the car.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

The philosophy works, Sauber runs similar setup.

The question is how good. It seems Mclaren has found the best solution of them all.

 

[ufunacaoenn]

The philosophy works, Sauber runs similar setup.

The question is how good. It seems Mclaren has found the best solution of them all.

But just in qualify while in race trim they seem to strugle with tyre management which is very important for a tight grid like this.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

But just in qualify while in race trim they seem to strugle with tyre management which is very important for a tight grid like this.

No i think that their race pace is actually good.
They kept Hamilton for too long in Oz, Button had the best race pace out of everyone.

For Malaysia, the theory is that the rain had an effect on their exhaust.

 

[Markus Neumann]

Then why didn't it affect Sauber? Their exhaust may not be 100% the same but it sure is the same concept.

Personally, I doubt that the exhausts even have that much of an impact now. They probably provide only a few hundredths instead of several tenths.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Then why didn't it affect Sauber? Their exhaust may not be 100% the same but it sure is the same concept.

Personally, I doubt that the exhausts even have that much of an impact now. They probably provide only a few hundredths instead of several tenths.

Because it looks nothing like Mclaren´s.

RBR worked good in the rain, they run similar setups. Vettel was catching Hamilton before he got a puncture.

Mclaren had no problems what so ever in Australia. Vettel even said he held Hamilton up for a while and Button was nowhere to be seen in the dry.