Mercedes debuted a significant upgrade to its W14 F1 car at the MonacoGP. SomersF1 guides you though some of the hidden details. ⬇️
And while the big-ticket items, such as the sidepods and front suspension, were obvious talking points, there were also some interesting detail changes that emerged too. In terms of the new front suspension arrangement, the main change came to the pickup position at the chassis end on the lead arm of the upper wishbone.
In order to take advantage of this, the suspension element’s fairings, as well as the chassis blister thatThe blister, originally introduced as part of an upgrade package for the British Grand Prix last season, appears less steeply angled than before to better align with the new position of the lead arm of the upper wishbone. This will help to set up the necessary flow structures to take advantage of the changes made to the bodywork downstream.
But while a lot has already been said about what has changed with the W14’s bodywork, it’s also worth talking about what hasn’t changed. In that respect, we have to cover one of the main features of the departed zeropod solution: the SIS fairing. And, under the rigours posed by the cost cap and resource restrictions of these regulations, teams are unable to simply redesign and manufacture a new chassis to overcome any of the shortcomings they find when making large scale concept shifts such as this one.
The fairing being above and ahead of the inlet also results in an overbite, with the lower leading edge of the new sidepod inlet set back behind it.
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