Mercedes has put their hand to the W13 in an attempt to make a car more competitive which, so far, has shown only one great quality: reliability, while in terms of performance it did not seem capable of challenging Red Bull and Ferrari.
Mercedes W13: Here is the arched flap that has been lowered on the side bulkhead
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
The silver arrow arrived at Silverstone with a series of innovations that affected all areas of the car. We have already told you about the adjustment of the front wing with a lower position of the curved flap outside the side bulkhead, but also the other innovations introduced in the home race certainly do not go unnoticed.
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W13, in the wet free practice session: the strut is now faired differently on the chassis side
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The strut that controls the push rod front suspension has not been modified: the kinematics have remained the same, a new fairing has appeared that performs an aerodynamic function, shifting the flows around the frame belt according to the needs of the aerodynamicists who they want to direct the flows down to the bottom in the hope of increasing downforce.
Mercedes W13: the modified flow deflectors in front of the radiator outlets
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In front of the micro-vents of the radiators, the arched flaps attached to the frame have been changed: there are two of them with an extension in rapid prototyping material. Brackley’s engineers tried to improve the airflow for cooling the power unit, while keeping the intakes to a minimum size.
The fund is completely new both in conception and in design. In place of the second tie that so much controversy blew up in Canada, Mercedes sought the same result with a vertically sliding metal core attached to the step that separates the two floors of the pavement.
The flashy cuts towards the rear wheel have disappeared because technicians hope to control porpoising and bottoming with the air vents in the trailing edge: there are two that show raised lips under which vortex generators have appeared. and flow deviators. In between is a complicated blowing that also echoes the arched flap that appeared on the Red Bull RB18.
Mercedes W13: here is the new reinforced bottom with a metal core
Photo by: Jonathan Noble
Mercedes tries to lower the W13 in the hope that the latest version of the bottom will allow you to control the hopping, regaining that aerodynamic load that technicians normally see in the wind tunnel, but without finding the same results on the track.
The medium load rear wing of the Mercedes W13 for Silverstone
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As an adaptation of the car to the track there is also a medium load rear wing which completes the conspicuous package deliberated for Silverstone.
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