The advances were confirmed by the first images that came from the Jeddah paddock: the teams prepared their cars with a medium – low load aerodynamic set-up. The track designed on the seafront by Hermann Tilke is a very fast system in which the drivers will be on full throttle for 79% of the lap with an average speed rated above 250 km / h.
Red Bull has brought to Saudi Arabia a rear wing with a particularly low profile main profile, with the leading edge very curved upwards and with a spoon design to reduce drag near the side walls.
On the other hand, the movable flap has a very generous chord and also shows an important incidence, while there is no trace of a nolder in the trailing edge. The interesting aspect is that the DRS command is the standard one, so there is no intention to use the one that was reinforced for Saturday morning free practice in Losail and then discarded.
In the image of Giorgio Piola on the other hand, the reinforcement skin that has been glued to the root of the mobile flap, exactly where the lower leverage is pivoted, is a sign that fears of an open-wing “flickering” are not at all excluded.
McLaren MCL35M, detail of the unloaded rear wing for Jeddah
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
McLaren also follows the aerodynamic concept of Red Bull: the team from Woking, in addition to the main spoon profile, highlights a movable flap with a shorter string than that of the RB16B. The MCL35 M also does not adopt the additional Gurney flap and, of course, has given up on the T-wing.
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