Formula 1 tests wings on cars

TOArthur Leclerc (Charles’ brother) and Ollie Birman, second in the SF24 and first in the F1-75 two seasons ago, were in charge of testing at Fiorano today. new FIA prototypes to be refined or at least reduced to a minimumtricky problem with water splashing in races.

Headaches due to both the lack of visibility of the car in front and the danger it creates, so the federation’s highest body is looking for solutions to allow racing in heavy rain can be designed with greater safety and comfort since the tires can evacuate up to 85 liters at a speed of 300 km/h.

but the side effect is the huge atomization they create.

This is not the first time, since this project is called Wet Weather Package Having taken the first step last year, Mick Schumacher and Oscar Piastri tested a “more optimistic” prototype at Silverstone, which did not produce results. “What was done at Silverstone, with Mercedes making the parts and McLaren racing the splash test car, was perhaps an overly optimistic experiment. The wings covered a very small part of the wheel.

. I was too skeptical and assumed that we would not see very important results,” says Nicholas Tombazis, FIA Director of Single Seat Racing.

Since they don’t yet know how much spray comes from the tires and how much from the diffuser, they are cautious in their estimates. “After launching this project late last year and running quite a few CFD simulations, We realized pretty quickly that it wasn’t as simple as putting something on top and going out on the track. We didn’t want to lose too much performance of the cars and spoil the aerodynamics too much, although something is inevitable,” says Tombazis from motorsport.

“At the current load, these big wings, or whatever you call them if you have full coverage, will take quite a lot of dynamic load. km/h”, closes.