vikiradTG2007
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Yeah, but at that height away from the bodywork, I'd think the pitot tube is more of an airspeed sensor than an airflow sensor.
Is the black mast an antenna or a pitot tube to measure airflow?
Yeah, but at that height away from the bodywork, I'd think the pitot tube is more of an airspeed sensor than an airflow sensor.
Far too high up on the car I think, they probably need an airspeed trace on the telemetry in order to correlate with the wheel speed data.
The Brabham BT46B had a HUUUGE "cooling" fan that sucked the car onto the ground. It won and "fan cars" then were banned.No we don't, please explain.
It's quite apparent that the Renault engine is a bag o' balls. With the engine freeze, I'd say you're pretty effed if the latter part of your team name says 'Renault'. I could see a few new customers for Honda or even Cosworth next year. It's pretty clear that the French have dropped the ball, while having a Merc in the back seems to be like golden elixir so far.
no, they're also developping a V6 turbo engine...
Problem is... they have a design and CAD pictures have been revealed publicly, but they haven't actually built and run the engine.
As far as I understood, they've got the basic design done, probably shooting to enter endurance racing (WEC, LeMans), who use a very similar engine formula, but stopped short of building a full-fledged F1 engine, because with no customers there's nobody to fund it. If the Renault "engine" is really such an epic fail as the Jerez test suggests, I could see RB throwing their millions at Cosworth in an attempt to actually have an engine next year.
It's not a "very similar" engine formula, it's a free engine formula which just happens to have similar fuel flow restrictions to the F1 regs. If it were "very similar", then you wouldn't be able to have a 3.7 l V6 turbodiesel (Audi), a 2-liter V4 turbo (Porsche) and a 5-liter V8 N/A (which is rumoured to be the Toyota's new engine) in the same class, as well as hypothetical entries with F1-spec engines.