Although TV footage has shown the Red Bull front wing appear to almost touch the track surface at speed, the rules demand that when static it has to stay 75mm above the ground. Even so the car has passed all the necessary scrutineering checks, including a rigorous one on Saturday in Hungary with 200...»
In Hungary, Force India introduced their version of the blown diffuser (see red arrow) to just one car - Adrian Sutil's. It was tested on Friday, but the team then decided to run both cars in the standard configuration for the race. With the expense of tooling the new exhausts, a dyno test for...»
In Hungary Renault introduced this new, high-downforce rear wing. It's based on the McLaren concept of having two profiles, with a hole passing through, effectively giving the wing three slots. The difference on the R30 is that it's the flap that has been divided in two, with two separate slots....»
Since first introducing their exhaust-blown diffuser at Silverstone, McLaren have made many changes to its configuration. In this drawing you can see the reshaped section of underbody (red arrow) and also the different, lower position of the exhaust (highlighted in blue) being used on the MP4-25 in...»
Toro Rosso have introduced a new maximum-downforce front wing in Hungary. It features a vertical section (1) which creates a kind of skirt under the high shape of the standard nose. The new endplate, introduced in Hockenheim, has been revised to include a second horizontal slot (2), which better...»
This drawing from Hungary shows how Ferrari's diffuser has been modified to deal with the exhaust air now blowing under the floor, with the element just inside the rear tyres (1) now curved. The diffuser's side channels (2), which used to be more vertical in shape, are now also curved. The...»
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