While discussing the legality of the Mercedes W13 car, let’s also discover some characteristics of the Ferrari F1-75. For now, the Maranello team’s challenger for the 2022 Formula 1 season continues to dictate the timesheet with Charles Leclerc on the first day of testing in Barhain, one week before the opening round of the world championship in Sakhir.
Ferrari has been running constantly on the track, but in the stops to make adjustments the mechanics were forced to remove the bodywork of the sidepods and Technical Analyst Giorgio Piola was able to see the car, allowing him to observe some interesting details of Ferrari’s project.
If Mercedes used the upper anti-intrusion cone to create a central wing, separating it from the actual sidepods, in Maranello they decided to exploit the lower one not only for safety reasons, but also for structural ones. The image, in fact, allows us to observe how the bottom of the Venturi tunnel is also anchored to the cone to avoid bending of the floor which could cause pressure drops.
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If we look at the car from the right side, we can see that the Scuderia technicians have “packed” three radiators from the cooling system of the power unit 066/7. The concept is not very different from that of the SF1000: the intention of the engineers led by Enrico Cardile is to keep the weights as low as possible, avoiding bringing too many cooling elements above the 6 cylinders, to also have a very profiled to the advantage of the efficiency of the rear wing.
You can also see the conveyors that have the task of directing the hot air towards the open gills in the upper part of the sidepod and facilitate the extraction of high temperatures from the side with good fluid dynamics.
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