- 30 Dec 10, 09:43#232148
"He was the fastest driver I ever saw - faster even than Fangio"
________________________- Mike Hawthorn on Alberto Ascari
Some early images of Ferrari's 2011 car, the F11, were published first by Marca (paper edition) about a week before Xmas with more on their website.
This is probably a pretty bad translation
taken from this URL http://www.marca.com/2010/12/18/motor/formula1/
1292688236.html (you need to cut and paste the URL and get rid of the CR to get it to work because for some reason it doesn't like the redirect from our Forum):-
When you think of Ferrari recently what is it's originality? Brawn and double diffuser in 2009, McLaren F duct and the areo of Red Bull in 2010, have been trend setting elements in Formula 1 with Ferrari and the other teams forced to play catch-up.
Ferrari's goal in 2011 is to set trends. You have to set trends, the others can try and follow us. "When our technical director Aldo Costa, spoke about our design, I wanted to encourage him and all our engineers to push the theme of innovation, which, in Formula 1 means exploring all areas to the limits set by the rules, "said Stefano Domenicali.
Ferrari did it between 2000 and 2004, five years of triumph in what was the beacon for the other teams that imitated from one year to another the best inventions. This led to the conquest of 14 world titles in the last 11 years. To get back to this success map, we want our car from Maranello, starting next January 25th, competitive from the first race without any hiccups, like this season.
With the new regulations and clarified goal of the Scuderia (what we want from the car), we will see if the car we will call either the F2011 or F11, can be distinguished by eye from it's rivals, especially in the central and rear sections, where most new innovations are concentrated.
In this approach, conducted by the prestigious technical journalist and designer Paolo D'Alessio, nose or nose, should have a more pronounced trend, with two long vertical drifts and two bumps visible on the top. The front wing, which can not be moved from the steering wheel as this year, will feature a new design of the flaps and vertical sides.
However, the new principals arrive according to the center, where the more radical solutions begin. Starting with the sides, which have a substantially difference to the F10. It is presumed that the air intake high and tilted forward to a redesign of the bottom to increase air flow to cool the engine compartment and radiator cores.
Air for KERS
A small, on the bottom, to the kers compartment cannot be ruled out. In 2009 it was close to 30 kilos with batteries included. Ferrari has independently developed an improved version with better performance than the standard version, and slightly smaller batteries. Moreover, according to Pat Symonds, a former chief engineer of Renault, Ferrari will have an interconnected suspension, which should better distribute the weight of the car on four wheels for stability.
Different in the initial part, the sides also differ in the area near the drive wheels. Mainly by the sharp decline in its line to the end zone, the style of the McLaren. Here you can see the influence of the Adrian Newey Red Bull which the F10 ended with this season.
Although the double diffuser is prohibited in 2011, it is assumed that all the teams running blown exhausts will keep them, if only because this solution has been shown to contribute to the extraction of air from the rear, increasing the downforce on the rear. This area is fairly important new aerodynamic triangular element, which is configured as an important element in the new car.
The air guide, key
From here, just look up to find what could characterize the Ferrari 2011. The FIA is loaded twice F Duct diffuser and rear wing betting on a mobile phone and is in the area where Cavallino technicians should make a difference with solutions never seen before in this sport. What is it? "Bearing in mind that to be clear about the use of the rear wing will have to wait until the first races of 2011, it is clear that their exploitation with the kers, engineers expect even greater benefits than with the F duct.
This talk of a standard car fitted with the classic spine, but if the latter finally apply a subsequent air guiding element, which could be triangular placed after the entry of air into the engine-double as a spectacular wing could accelerate the flow directed to the rear wing. This new flap working in conjunction with the mobile-upper rear wing, so to speak, but has not yet been determined if they can touch each other or not. In any case, would use to test the new regulations, flying straight at Ferrari.
With numbers in hand, if they can gain 50 or 60 horsepower for 6.7 seconds per lap with kers, the adoption of the mobile rear wing and the flow guide can also bring an increase of over 100 hp. These very respectable figures would give Ferrari an edge.
In fact this feature could be hidden until the final preseason test so as not to let it be copied, but if its successful, it would be one of those elements to copy, but this time by rivals.
This is probably a pretty bad translation
taken from this URL http://www.marca.com/2010/12/18/motor/formula1/1292688236.html (you need to cut and paste the URL and get rid of the CR to get it to work because for some reason it doesn't like the redirect from our Forum):-
When you think of Ferrari recently what is it's originality? Brawn and double diffuser in 2009, McLaren F duct and the areo of Red Bull in 2010, have been trend setting elements in Formula 1 with Ferrari and the other teams forced to play catch-up.
Ferrari's goal in 2011 is to set trends. You have to set trends, the others can try and follow us. "When our technical director Aldo Costa, spoke about our design, I wanted to encourage him and all our engineers to push the theme of innovation, which, in Formula 1 means exploring all areas to the limits set by the rules, "said Stefano Domenicali.
Ferrari did it between 2000 and 2004, five years of triumph in what was the beacon for the other teams that imitated from one year to another the best inventions. This led to the conquest of 14 world titles in the last 11 years. To get back to this success map, we want our car from Maranello, starting next January 25th, competitive from the first race without any hiccups, like this season.
With the new regulations and clarified goal of the Scuderia (what we want from the car), we will see if the car we will call either the F2011 or F11, can be distinguished by eye from it's rivals, especially in the central and rear sections, where most new innovations are concentrated.
In this approach, conducted by the prestigious technical journalist and designer Paolo D'Alessio, nose or nose, should have a more pronounced trend, with two long vertical drifts and two bumps visible on the top. The front wing, which can not be moved from the steering wheel as this year, will feature a new design of the flaps and vertical sides.
However, the new principals arrive according to the center, where the more radical solutions begin. Starting with the sides, which have a substantially difference to the F10. It is presumed that the air intake high and tilted forward to a redesign of the bottom to increase air flow to cool the engine compartment and radiator cores.
Air for KERS
A small, on the bottom, to the kers compartment cannot be ruled out. In 2009 it was close to 30 kilos with batteries included. Ferrari has independently developed an improved version with better performance than the standard version, and slightly smaller batteries. Moreover, according to Pat Symonds, a former chief engineer of Renault, Ferrari will have an interconnected suspension, which should better distribute the weight of the car on four wheels for stability.
Different in the initial part, the sides also differ in the area near the drive wheels. Mainly by the sharp decline in its line to the end zone, the style of the McLaren. Here you can see the influence of the Adrian Newey Red Bull which the F10 ended with this season.
Although the double diffuser is prohibited in 2011, it is assumed that all the teams running blown exhausts will keep them, if only because this solution has been shown to contribute to the extraction of air from the rear, increasing the downforce on the rear. This area is fairly important new aerodynamic triangular element, which is configured as an important element in the new car.
The air guide, key
From here, just look up to find what could characterize the Ferrari 2011. The FIA is loaded twice F Duct diffuser and rear wing betting on a mobile phone and is in the area where Cavallino technicians should make a difference with solutions never seen before in this sport. What is it? "Bearing in mind that to be clear about the use of the rear wing will have to wait until the first races of 2011, it is clear that their exploitation with the kers, engineers expect even greater benefits than with the F duct.
This talk of a standard car fitted with the classic spine, but if the latter finally apply a subsequent air guiding element, which could be triangular placed after the entry of air into the engine-double as a spectacular wing could accelerate the flow directed to the rear wing. This new flap working in conjunction with the mobile-upper rear wing, so to speak, but has not yet been determined if they can touch each other or not. In any case, would use to test the new regulations, flying straight at Ferrari.
With numbers in hand, if they can gain 50 or 60 horsepower for 6.7 seconds per lap with kers, the adoption of the mobile rear wing and the flow guide can also bring an increase of over 100 hp. These very respectable figures would give Ferrari an edge.
In fact this feature could be hidden until the final preseason test so as not to let it be copied, but if its successful, it would be one of those elements to copy, but this time by rivals.
"He was the fastest driver I ever saw - faster even than Fangio"
________________________- Mike Hawthorn on Alberto Ascari
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