Red Bull RB8 Launch

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Cool vid and weirdest nose so far.
rb8step.jpg


Link to the video on their main site.
http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Video/The-RB8-Revealed…-021243158945543
 
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Alex.
RBR have a stepped nose.
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We could call it the Schumacher nosecone, since it is a safety item mandated after Schuey was potentially decapitated in a nose-to-cockpit accident last season. Until the rules and designs are further refined over the next few years, we can at least be grateful we don't have to call it the Schumacher Memorial Safety Nosecone.

Respectfully,
Steve
 
I'll officially eat my hat about my previously expressed non-belief that Newey would use a stepped nose. Oy. Although his nose design does at least look better than Ferrari's. We'll see tomorrow how well they perform on the track.
 
There are some rumors around the web about the RedBull stepped nose, seems that is an air intake used to stall some wings somewhere on the car. They are already calling "STEP-DUCT". The hole highlighted hole in red should be the exhaust, what are the yellow and green holes for is unknown at the moment.

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Excellent find mate, but I have a question. There shouldn't be any aero parts on that area of the floor, right?

If that's the case, my really wild guess is the green part could be the base for the brake cooling fan. But the cooling fan couldn't be that big...
 
At the moment the "step duct" is just an unconfirmed internet rumor, IF that's real maybe one of those holes are somehow related to the stepped nose. I'm looking forward to know more, but I don't have any further infos now. Maybe somebody will find something at Jerez.

Anyway my opinion is Newey did it again. :)
 
The hole in the bump makes sense. Most or all cars have an air intake on the front of the nose, presumably to aid driver comfort by letting some cool air into the cockpit. This creates a little bit of drag. Putting it on the front of the nose was the optimal solution.

The stepped nose was going to create drag so why not put the air intake here? There is inevitably going to be some drag, but rather than having two areas on the nose that create drag (The step and the front end of the nose) why not have them both in the same spot?

This theory will have been backed up by wind tunnel results otherwise they wouldn't have it on the car.

Notice that there is no air intake on the front of the nose anymore.
 
Not as ugly, my arse! :lol:

Oh well, it's otherwise quite muscular looking, and clean. The exhaust location is baffling, it looks to me to be "aero-neutral", pointing through the space under the rear wing elements, or near the lower parts of the end-plates. Or is it blowing on the leading spar of the upper wishbone? :scared:

It seems half the battle with this innovation lark is simply having the balls to do it in the first place!
 
I find it ugly but if it really works like an air intake it should be really interesting, makes you wonder why the other car company using this kind of nose didnt go for that. Newey is really a genius if it works.

I didnt saw an entire pics of the car yet tho, only 3D rendering and a pretty dark video.
 
Seismica
The hole in the bump makes sense. Most or all cars have an air intake on the front of the nose, presumably to aid driver comfort by letting some cool air into the cockpit. This creates a little bit of drag. Putting it on the front of the nose was the optimal solution.

The stepped nose was going to create drag so why not put the air intake here? There is inevitably going to be some drag, but rather than having two areas on the nose that create drag (The step and the front end of the nose) why not have them both in the same spot?

This theory will have been backed up by wind tunnel results otherwise they wouldn't have it on the car.

Notice that there is no air intake on the front of the nose anymore.
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It's too big to only be used for cooling the cockpit.
 
1) It could be a dummy to fake people out.

2) Or it could go to stall out the front wings.

3) Or it could go to the rear wing. But they have DRS, so why bother?

4) Or, finally, it could go to the diffuser.

Red Bull have got the others baffled for the moment, and are thus one-up!👍

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

Edit: It could also go to cool the KERS.
The funny thing is, it is humongous enough to feed another good-size engine!! Way too big for an F-duct as we know them.
So my guess is #1 above.
 
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