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Red Bull Bending Wings

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Red Bull has come with a cheeky innovation this season, which has made controversy in the grid this year. What is that and how it is helping them in the race? In the Spanish GP, It is noticed that the rear wing of RB16B was bending horizontally at straights. This can be observed in the below video. Source: formula1 How does this help? So by bending, the wing height has reduced as a result the drag and downforce are reduced as well. Which decreases the road loads in straights as a result the acceleration of the car is high making the car help attaining high speed quickly and easily. Does this comply with the rule? Yes, the wing has passed the flexibility test which is done before the race. Which states that Bodywork may deflect by no more than one degree horizontally when a load of 1000N is applied. Which is just a small case testing, Because and F1 can generate up to 30,000 N of downforce of which more than 25 percent comes from the rear wing. that is equal to 7,500 N. Since the de...
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High Rake Concept Explained

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  The introduction of new technical regulation has evidently created troubles for Mercedes in the coming season. The primary reason that is assumed is rake angle. Rake angle is the difference between ride height of front and rear of the car. It is pretty neat to say that the car is inclined up at the rear than the front. Mercedes is one team that has been very successful and dominant with their low rake concept . Their design philosophy is quiet not understandable for many engineers but definitely they are best in it. But the introduction of new technical regulation has resulted in downfall of Mercedes which is one among two teams that has been using this low rake concept car, other one is again a Mercedes in green ( Sorry Aston Martin) . To understand why Mercedes and Aston Martin is suffering with the low rake concept, we first of all need to understand what rake has to do with car. Understanding this doesn't need rocket science concept it is a simple high school concept . Imagin...
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F1 2021 Rules Explained

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F1 2021 is set to be one of the unexampled year in the history of Formula 1 because of Covid 19 pandemic. As 2021 was set to be a very important year in Formula 1 history because of the introduction of new rules that is focused on economical and equal cars , which is delayed a year due to pandemic. As teams are facing huge financial crisis , F1 organizing FIA has decided to take it's 2020 car a another year. Does it says the result are going to be same as 2020? FIA has managed to govern a set of rules , that will decrease the domination of rich teams in this sport. Here is what to look out for 2021! COST CAP: For the first time in history of Formula 1, a cost cap has been introduced. Teams are now restricted to spend more on car. The baseline of this cost cap for this season is set to 145 million dollars , which will be reduced further in successive years. This cost cap will cramp the space for spending more on car , thus providing teams at the bottom a chance to show up their fac...
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