- 18 Oct 11, 21:17#280467
Mercedes invents front wing F-duct for 2012 - report
Mercedes plant F-Schacht im Frontflügel
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Mercedes plant F-Schacht im Frontflügel
With an aggressive development program, Mercedes in the season 2012 finally wants to start through. A project is there the F shaft in the front wing. We ventilated the secret around the brilliant technology trick.
One cannot reproach Mercedes that the engineers would have no ideas. The Mercedes MGPW02 is an unusual car. With courageous ideas in many branches: the wheel state short, the draft with the folded Kühlern and the revolutionary load work that networks the four suspensions hydraulically together.
Yet the technologies tricks did not bring however that until now, what promised the theory. Nevertheless team boss wants to want hold horse Brawn at the philosophy of the aggressive development. "To be sure something fewer extremely".
Mercedes tests reports front wing trick in Suzuka such as car motor and sport in its current edition (notebook 23/2011, as of 20 October in the trade), becomes one of these projects a F shaft in the front wing. In order to go on number certainly, one tried the system very secretly already once. In the first Friday training of Suzuka. The engineers used the training in order to gather data. In the wind canal is the F shafts problematic nature only heavily representable.
Only he who viewed there very exactly, Mercedes came would slink on that. Normally the oval hole in the nose tip of the MGPW02 is sealed. In Suzuka, it was open. One saw a hole divided in the middle. Through this, air is initiated into the front wing. Example for the system is the F shaft in the stern wing that came in the before season in fashion.
Better Anströmung of the subsoil and more Top Speed the air is led then over a direction system through the front wing stilts into the right and left part of the head leaf. If the dynamic pressure exceeds a certain measure, the air blows at the underside of the wing over altogether four slits off. The driver must not the system therefore like in the F shaft in the preceding year manually aktvieren.
Through the trick, the current is calmed under the wing direction subsoil. And it serves the Top Speed. Around how much, about that the experts are themselves disagreeing. McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh appreciates between five and eight km/h. It reprimands however on that that this technology would be to got heavily into the handle. Mercedes could have pulled therefore the jackpot with its early development start. "Who now therewith begins, is already late at it".
Only passive F shaft at the front wing permitted actually is forbidden the F shaft. Actively anyway. The driver may interfere no longer. On a passive F shaft in the stern wing, with which the dynamic pressure determines when the current should dismantle, renounce the teams voluntarily. For that the FIA gave them the DRS wing. It brings clearly more Top Speed if one may flat place the stern wing Flap at the push of a button.
For the front wing, there is no Regularien. There a passive F shaft is legal. Whitmarsh believes that now also other teams with this technology will busy themselves. The technical Reglement is so restrictive that one must use each small loophole. Mercedes goes not only personnel an aggressive strategy. One wants to set also technically trend. 2012 are podium places duty.
In our picture gallery, we show you very exactly how the trick functions.
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