Explained: The five key changes behind Red Bull’s biggest upgrade of F1 2023 so far

Here is every upgrade that each team has brought to the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix, with Red Bull introducing their biggest update package of the 2023 season to date. 
Red Bull sidepod. Formula 1 Wo
Red Bull sidepod. Formula 1 Wo

Red Bull 

Front corner - An enlarged front brake duct exit to cope with the greater brake en🅰ergy and low average speed of the Hunga𝓰rian Grand Prix circuit. 

Rear Corner - An Enlarged rear brake duct exit f🐼or more cooling with winglets to add some local load and impr▨ove the exit condition suited the requirements of brake cooling at the Hungarian circuit.

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Sidepod inlet - Changing the aspect ratio of the inlet has improved the pressure at the entry to the radiator duct and therefore the cooling e🌟fficiency ahead oꦗf one of the more difficult circuits for car cooling.

Coke/Engine Cover - Having revised th🐼e inlet duct a wider sidepod panel was necessary and utilises the greater inlet pressure to exploit the inlet improvements. This extends to the rear suspension and revises the cooling air exit path.

Floor Body - The re-shaped sidepod ꦏhas led to subtle floor edges changes to work with the upstream surfaces, which has extracted some more local load.

Ferrari 

Front wing - The specificities of the Budapest track layout are requiring a high downforce configuration. This front wing flap update simply gives the necessary aero balance range auth♏ority.

Mercedes 

Front wing endplate - Lifts vortexes shed off divep🎃lane which in turn interacts more favourably with🅠 front tyre wake, improving flow to the rear of the car.

Front suspension - Reduced camber improves flow quality along the chassis side and on to the front of the floor, resulting in increased floꩲor load.

Rear wing - Circuit specific - larger wing tip cutout increases the mass flow under the wing♔ tip, which increases local downforce and dr൩ag.

Alpine 

Front wing -&n🐎bsp;A bigger front wing flap to rebalance the higher rear downforce level that we will use at the Hungaroring this weekend.

McLaren 

No updates submitted for this event.

Alfa Romeo

No updates submitted for this event.

Aston Martin 

Coke/Engine Cover - Part of the cooling setup options the larger exit area increases the volume of cooling flo🉐w exited from the bodywork.

Haas 

Floor Body - The r🧸esearch work of the aero department this time have been focused in the management of the flow expansion of the car underneath affecting the shape of the component th𒊎at is called "Floor Body".

AlphaTauri 

Front wing - The central front wing changes result in a more efficient generation of downforce. The outboard flap tip loading 𝓡creates a more favourable interaction between the front wing and front wheel wake losses, improving onset flow quality to the rest of the car.

Nose - The nose change results in more effici♎ent generation of downforce working in combinat꧒ion with the above changes to the central front wing.

Floor Body - The wider central floor generates increased load through local surface curvatur♍e changes 🅷which accelerate the local flow and generates lower pressure under the floor as a result.

Rear Wing - The rear wing tip changes give an efficient increase in loading ෴of the wing elements.

Williams 

No updates submitted for this event.

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