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How F1 teams bucked historic sample in fight for victory in Mexico
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How F1 teams bucked historic sample in fight for victory in Mexico

By Miles Cooper October 29, 2024
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The extreme altitude of Mexico’s Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Autodromo has on a regular basis been an outlier, with the thin air impacting downforce selections along with the need for additional cooling for the flexibility unit, electronics and brakes.

On this respect, regardless of the extreme excessive speeds being encountered, the cars are traditionally organize of their most downforce configuration.

Teams normally utilise comparable entrance and rear wing settings and designs to those usually reserved for low-speed circuits, equal to Monaco, Hungary and Singapore.

Nonetheless, that sample was bucked this 12 months, as many of the frontrunners fitted their cars with lower downforce rear wing packages to boost effectivity and straightline tempo.

How F1 teams bucked historic sample in fight for victory in Mexico
Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB20, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20

Some teams minimize up packages all through cars, with Purple Bull, for example, having a novel setup all through garages. Max Verstappen utilised the lower downforce affiliation, whereas Sergio Perez used the extreme downforce set-up.

Previous the wing selections, teams had been moreover pressured to utilize their most cooling configurations, with various having to ship new bodywork that was opened up significantly in contrast with completely different venues.

5 of the ten teams had exchange packages at their disposal in Mexico, with all of those that features some type of additional cooling assist.

The rest of the grid merely re-used the utmost cooling diploma bodywork that had been used elsewhere this season, pretty than assist a bundle deal which can solely make a one-off outing.

The 5 that did go for bespoke packages had been, Purple Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Williams and RB – all of which had each new, further expansive cooling louvre configurations and/or enlarged rear cooling retailers on the rear of their engine covers.

For every McLaren and Ferrari, the cooling louvres on the aspect of their engine covers had been examples of their pre-existing choices being taken to extremes, with so much larger gills now embossed throughout the bodywork.

Ferrari SF-24 cooling detail, Mexican GP

Ferrari SF-24 cooling component, Mexican GP

{Photograph} by: Giorgio Piola

The SF-24’s decision was not solely further expansive by means of the rear cooling gills, which stretched down over the engine cowl’s shoulder half into the sidepod’s increased flooring.

The workforce moreover decided to mount an additional louvred panel throughout the forward a part of the sidepod’s increased flooring too.

Changes had been made to this panel in the midst of the weekend, with further cooling gills used all through FP1/2 (inset), whereas the aptitude was actually lowered for qualifying and the race.

Ferrari SF-24 cooling

Ferrari SF-24 cooling

{Photograph} by: Giorgio Piola

Evaluating this to the affiliation utilized in Monaco, Hungary and Singapore, (left inset, above) we’re in a position to see how much more of the bodywork has been opened as a lot as improve heat rejection.

This results in the rear cooling outlet remaining the similar measurement, pretty than having to be expanded, which may, in flip, have further of an aerodynamic have an effect on on the rear end of the automotive.

It was a similar story for McLaren, as a result of it too opted for a revised cooling louvre panel, which now stretches down over the engine cowl’s shoulder half and reaches all through the upper flooring of the sidepod (Hungarian and Singapore Grand Prix preparations inset, beneath, for comparability).

McLaren MCL38 cooling comparison
Red Bull Racing RB20 detail

Within the meantime, of the frontrunners, Purple Bull took the opposite technique with its cooling configuration.

The RB20 featured an enlarged rear cooling outlet to help deal with the additional requires posed by the altitude, whereas two louvred panels on each aspect of the engine cowl supplemented this extra forward too.

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