On the occasion of the Scuderia Ferrari F1-75 car presentation, Motorsport Italy highlighted a particularity of the Maranello team’s challenger for the 2022 Formula 1 seasond: the ‘modular’ nose concept. This is a feature that teams have actually adopted with the introduction of ground-effect single-seaters that takes into account the needs of the Budget Cap which requires them to seek maximum efficiency in development to stay within the cost parameters.
Ferrari has broken down the nose into three elements: the first block, the one that attaches to the F1-75 chassis serves to pass the FIA frontal crash test which has been made more selective this year. Then there is a second deformable part which is covered by a removable body that can be easily modified for aerodynamic reasons.
The drawing by Giorgio Piola, in fact, shows us how the nose of the Ferrari car under the cover is decidedly rounded and only the carbon cover allowed the design with the small “beak” that we know well and that optimizes the shapes in a nerve center of the single-seater, where the front wing shows the main spoon profile in the central part to allow an air passage which is destined for the Venturi channels.
The four flaps that make up the front wing must be anchored to the nose because there are no longer any support pillars, so the teams had to find solutions that would facilitate interventions in the event of accidents in which the profiles were damaged. Nothing in Formula 1 is left to chance: Scuderia Ferrari could redesign the nose without having to resort to a second crash test, since the absorption structure would not be changed.
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Red Bull is also taking great care in the front area of the RB18: but unlike what has been said the Milton Keynes team has not changed the nose in Jeddah for the 2022 Saudi Arabian GP weekend. It is interesting to note how different the approach in defining the deformable structure is.
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