F1 technical developments slowed down in the final rounds of 2022 - but there were still plenty of added details as teams focused on next year. Here's a look at them 🛠️
’s W13. However, whereas Russell had used the upper rear quarter endplate cutout in his breakthrough Brazil weekend , he opted for the full-height variant for Abu Dhabi.also toyed with different rear wing configurations during practice, as they both tried a higher downforce option before both chose their lower downforce counterparts.
Ferrari also used some practice time to evaluate a revised floor design , likely as a precursor to changes that the team expect to implement for 2023, which needed real-world data to validate their findings in CFD and the wind tunnel. The revised design centres on changes made to the section of the floor just ahead of the rear tyre. An upwardly scrolled edge will alter the course of the airflow, resulting in a behavioural change as it meets with the face of the tyre.It’s a relatively small change but one that could be beneficial in the team combating the issues posed by tyre squirt, a phenomenon that robs the diffuser of consistency and potency as the airflow is pushed laterally off the tyre into the diffuser’s path.
Unlike Ferrari, its investigations resulted in a more thorough overhaul of the floor’s edge, including the edge wing. The test item featured a design more in-line with the one championed by Red Bull and that’s subsequently been copied by others up and down the grid. The scroll, complete with flow deviators, in the forward section of the floor's edge was replaced by a more simplistic Gurney, with a cutout found behind it where a lower section of floor then resides, with the remaining section of the floor tapering out ahead of the rear tyre.
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