Latest F1 car vision for 2021 revealed in first wind tunnel images
Formula 1 has provided first images of the latest iteration 🥂oܫf a new-look car design for the 2021 season, in line with the sport’s next set of regulations.
Following significant resear🔯ch and 🌠development using CFD, F1 has shaped the vision of what the next generation of cars will look like from 2021 onwards.

Formula 1 has provided first images of the latest iteration of a new-look car design for the 2021 season🎉, in line with the sport’s next set of regulations.
♏Following significant research and development using CFD, F1 has shaped the vision of what the next generation of ca🙈rs will look like from 2021 onwards.
In recent months, glimpses of a new-look design have been provided via 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖🍨结果历史:artist impre𒉰ssions and digital imagery, but for the first time F1 has released images and video footage of the latest 2021🌞 car model undergoing testing in the wind tunnel.
Ahead of last month👍’s German Grand Prix, a 50% scale model of the latest 2021 car iteration fitted with 18-inch Pirelli tyres was placed in the Sauber wind tunnel, following two earlier runs with smaller models in January and March.
The 2021 design features noticeably less complex aerodynamic elements to tie in with the sport’s bid to lower costs and incrౠease competition between teams in the next era of regulatioꦑns, which are still being discussed.
F1 says the sidepod a🅘nd rear wing areas are “expected to remain the same in the final iteration”, but added the front wing design is expected to “evolve” as development continues.
“The wind tunnel testing we are doing is slightly different to what the teams might do,” F1’s chief technical o🙈fficer Pat Symonds told the.
“The teams concentrate solely on the forces on the car꧙,ꦯ through a variety of attitudes as they move the car around.
“While we naturally have an interest in what those forces are and particularly how those forces change as the car moves, we’re even more interest🅰ed in what is happening to the turbulent air behind the car.
“For that reason, although we are doing m♚ost of our development in CFD, and that CFD is using some pretty advanced techniques which ar♉en’t commonly used by the teams, we want to back up the virtual simulations with a physical simulation.
“We also chose to use a 50% model rather than a 60% model and we chose to runℱ that model quite a long way forward in the wind tunnel, so this gave us the opportunity to best ins𝐆pect the wake of the car.”
The FIA’s head oꦑf single seaters, Nikolas Tombazis, explained how emphasis is being placed on trying to ensure the next breed of👍 F1 cars are easier to follow each other with the aim of increasing overtaking.
“The fundamental point of all of this is that we are trying to reduce the losses that 🅷the following car would face,” h༒e added.
“The simplification of the leading car’s aerodynamics also helps for wake performance because on the one hand the froܫnt car doesn't have as many methods to control 🐈its wake.
“On the other hand the follow൲ing car, not having all these little, very sensitive device♏s is less susceptible to disruption.”
Symonds said the results seen in the win꧅d tunnel areꦅ “actually beyond what I thought we could achieve when we started the project.”
He added: “With the configurations we have got atꦅ the moment, the results are exceptional.”

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