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[CookinFlat6]

I hope Ferraris lack of experience with turbos has not led to underestimating the amount of cooling required. The size of the side pods won't be a quick fix. Even with liquid cooling the more airflow in the first place the better
Guess we will find out on track in a few days

[Jabberwocky]

The back of the coke bottle is not that tight so maybe the "heat exchangers" are in a better free flowing air. Where as a tight coke bottle would restrict the airflow

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[racechick]

Very nice boots in the sale here, for lady Ferrari fans....Sagi???

http://www.shop.puma.co.uk/Women%27s-Fe ... ray_violet

[sagi58]

Those are gorgeous!! Took a look, they have my size!!
And, then I looked at the tread... with the ice we've had,
this year, I'd be looking at a broken neck!!

[spankyham]

La Stampa are reporting that the F14-T's engine is producing 650HP from the trad engine and 160HP from ERS for a total of 810HP.

[What's Burning?]

I thought HP was capped at 750? With a turbo you can really create the HP you want just by playing with the boost, of course at the cost of longevity.

[spankyham]

Tech analysis: Ferrari F14 T

Ferrari's 2014 car has taken a totally different front end path to others seen so far, but will it work? CRAIG SCARBOROUGH analyses a design that seems conservative on initial evidence

Although Ferrari's 2014 Formula 1 car launch was another online event, to the team's credit it unveiled a real car in Maranello and not a rendering.

The F14 T (a name chosen via yet another online event) is a streamlined and organic design that departs from other 2014 cars, with its dolphin nose and tiny sidepods.

Yet the car is quite conservative in many areas. Coming off the back of another year of missing out on both championships, Ferrari was expected to go aggressive to boost its chances of more silverware.

The nose is a complete contrast to those seen so far. Ferrari has formed the minimum cross section for the nose tip into a wide letterbox shape.

This section then curves upwards back towards the chassis, building a wide flat surface to create low pressure and hence downforce under the nose in the process.

A nose shaped like this would be easier to get through crash testing compared to the ultra slender finger-noses of Ferrari's rivals. This means the nose may well be lighter, which is just as important in the car's overall performance.

Although the dolphin shape will add some downforce to the front end, it will rob the rear end of airflow in doing so. Ferrari must be confident of the slim sidepods helping with rear downforce to have followed this route.

Ferrari has tried a much wider nose tip than other cars seen so far
Airflow over the nose is also aided in passing around the upper section by the camera pods acting as splitters and diverting the air around the sides of the car.

To form such a sloped nose, the front of the raised chassis is also sloped. This meets the low front bulkhead rules, but keeps much of the front suspension mountings in the same place as last year. It's no surprise that the front suspension retains the pullrod layout, with the pullrod lying flat and acting as a useful aerodynamic aid.

The sidepods also differ from common thinking. They are surprisingly slim bearing in mind the additional cooling required for the new powertrain. Both the sidepod inlets and the volume of the sidepods are tiny in comparison to Ferrari's rivals.

So how Ferrari achieves adequate cooling will be interesting, as there is much talk of the potential use of air-to-water intercooling for the air coming out of the turbo. But this system would be heavy and meeting the minimum weight limit is already a concern for many teams this year.

In their shape, the sidepods are also quite different, being sloped and tapering outward towards their bottom, similar to Red Bull's recent sidepod concepts.

Ferrari appears to be using the complex vanes around the front of the sidepods to create downwash and direct this towards the diffuser for the benefit of rear downforce. Allied to the sidepods' slimmer shape helping airflow to the rear, this could pay dividends.

Within this area is the new powertrain, something Ferrari is yet to release any images of. The engine and ERS remain top secret, which suggests something very different might be going on with them.

The launch kept some of the rear details a secret
With the deadline for power unit homologation still a month away, it might be some weeks before we get a real view of the heart of the car.

At the rear we can see the engine's single exhaust pipe. This exits through the rear wing's mounting pylons. Using these pylons in this manner will cost a little rear wing performance, but is the lightest way of supporting the loads from the rear wing.

It's also worth noting that the rear wing endplates feature even more slots than last year, retaining both the slats on the rear edge of the endplate and gaining new slots on the front edge.

Also aiding rear end aero is the rear suspension, which like last year encloses the driveshaft. This is something other new cars seem to have discarded.

There's not much else to discern from the rear, as it's clearly lacking the final details and even the diffuser was covered over for the launch.

It seems Ferrari has thought deeply about the F14 T, but the potential performance gains visible so far come from the sidepod packaging aiding the aero, rather than the nose and other details. Sidepods aside, the consideration seems to be more weight-saving than aerodynamic.

It may be that Ferrari has found a cooling or engine packaging advantage and is keeping this secret. If not the car's more conservative design in many other areas could be a weakness.

[spankyham]

I thought HP was capped at 750? With a turbo you can really create the HP you want just by playing with the boost, of course at the cost of longevity.

Not sure about any cap, but the boost is limited.

If Ferrari have found a better cooling solution then this would be a huge boost for engine longevity this year and moreso next year.

*** EDIT - Personally I don't believe these sorts of rumors. What I do like though is how silent Ferrari have remained, and how little detail they have allowed to leak or have given out about their powertrain. That makes me a lot more confident than speculation and unsubstantiated newspaper reports of XXX HP ***

[Jabberwocky]

You would be limited by fuel flow as well I think

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[spankyham]

I like Scarb's comparison for the F14-T

[spankyham]

Camera housings look like they play a huge role as splitters in exactly the right place on the F14-T nose..

[sagi58]

I like Scarb's comparison for the F14-T

The is my favourite!!

[sagi58]

Exclusive time lapse in movement of the entire process applying the stickers to the new F14 T.

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[NHcheese]

Animal cruelty. That is such a sad looking dolphin, and I can imagine why, trapped in a garage.

[spankyham]

 wrote:">Domenicali: Solid starting point which we must now exploit as much as possible

Ferrari completed the second highest number of laps of all the teams gathered in Jerez for the first stanza of Formula 1 preseason testing, but Team Principal Stefano Domenicali has down played the significance of the first four days of on track action while lauding the work done by their two drivers – Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen.

Speaking after the final day at the Jerez circuit, Domenicali reflected, “These were four very demanding and important days to give us something to work on over the coming days in Maranello.”

“The technical parameters of the F14T, as well as the aerodynamic validation we saw on track, match our expectations and provide a solid starting point, which we must now exploit as much as possible.”

“In Jerez, we concentrated our efforts on fine tuning the new systems to ensure that all the components that make up the new power unit were working as well as possible and the team was focused on its tasks.”



“I was also very pleased to see, even if it was hardly a surprise, how our drivers worked in harmony and that they have already provided excellent feedback relating to the development of the car,” said the Ferrari team boss.

The reds are adamant that they spent the four days sticking to their business, and ignored what happened around them, for instance the headline grabbing flop of Renault’s power units and how they affected Red Bull’s well laid testing plans.

Domenicali insisted, “We can’t evaluate performance levels at the moment, neither that of the F14T, nor those of our rivals. The important thing [was] to do as many laps as possible to give our engineers the data they need to continue with the development of the car.”

“It would be premature to make any precise evaluations. What counts for more is to have clear ideas on what we must do now and on the direction to take, so that we arrive in Melbourne in the best possible shape.”



Despite Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo’s well known disdain for the new V6 turbo Formula 1 era, Domenicali says that the team is rising to the challenge.

“We are definitely on the eve of a new era in this sport. As usual when there are such radical changes, it’s best not to rush to make any premature judgement and in our opinion, the new technologies are really fascinating.”

“They also represent a challenge which Ferrari, as a car constructor, has welcomed because of the technology transfer it will ensure across all activities of our company,” concluded the Ferrari Team Principal.

Teams have three weeks to prepare for the next period of testing which begins on 19 February at Bahrain International Circuit. (GP247)