The official presentation of the Scuderia Ferrari car for the 2022 Formula 1 season has been one of the most anticipated events ahead of the new campaign and there were plenty of encouraging design concepts to check out once the Maranello team presented its radical concept for the F1-75 challenger.
As reported by motorsport.com, the front of the car is a key area with several important innovations and interesting aero solutions adopted by the Italian side: Scuderia Ferrari has chosen a four-element front wing, the maximum possible under the new rules.
The nose is connected to all four elements of the wing but is a very slender design when he compare it to what we have seen elsewhere, not only in terms of the pointed nose tip but also the underside of the main body too.
The pointed nose tip follows the downward dip of the mainplane’s central portion, which will feed airflow to the underside of the nose and then onwards to the floor and sidepods. The nose is also constructed in a way that allows the Ferrari engineers to make changes throughout the course of the season without the need to pass another crash structure.
It’s hoped this built-in versatility will allow the team to be agile in the face of any modifications it might need to make in order to improve performance or should it wish to switch to a design carried by another team. A NACA-shaped duct is also employed in the tip of the nose and will provide cooling for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
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The Maranello team has also decided to go for pushrod front suspension at the front of the F1-75 challenger, despite the fact that there had been suggestion they may return to pullrod given its recent experience, having utilised it between 2012 and 2015.
The suspension and steering arms fairings have been positioned in order to offer the maximum aerodynamic performance based on the design of the front wing, floor and sidepods. The front brake duct and wake deflectors have been displaced from the tyres’ sidewall in an attempt to improve brake cooling and alter their influence on the airflow.
As with the other 2022 Formula One cars we have seen so far, Ferrari has used the regulatory freedom to come up with a unique approach to the sidepods’ design. In this respect the layout of the power unit’s ancillaries – such as radiators, oil coolers and electronics – housed within the sidepod have been orientated differently this year.
It has also been mindful that altering the internal makeup of the sidepods can have an impact on their external shape and how that can be used aerodynamically, especially when we consider the allowance of the cooling gills on their top surface once more.
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