.png)
By 
Friday, March 21, 2014
Red Bulls approach to the regulation
changes surrounding the rear wing involved the team running a
centralised pylon mounted to the engine cover (left inset). (Unlike
other teams that had run with an inverted Y-Lon, which is to say that
a surround is placed over the exhaust outlet providing a more rigid
fixing point to be established above the gearbox).
+-+logo+(Custom).jpg)
This has changed in Melbourne with the
team making revisions to both the cooling outlet and centralised
pylon. Following McLaren and Marussia's lead an inverted Y-Lon can
now also be found on the RB10, however the Red Bull version is masked
by the end of the cooling funnel outlet with the pylon extending
through the top of the bodywork and is affixed to both the upper and
lower sections of the cooling funnel.
The upshot is a more efficiently
packaged pylon that doesn't drastically impinge on the external aero
but adds a little more rigidity over it's predecessor and likely aids
in the internal airflow characteristics (drawing the airflow through the cooling funnel like an aspirator).
Posts
0 comments