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Tech analysis: How Red Bull assimilated a Mercedes concept

Red Bull's 2016 challenger was the first in a number of years not to feature an 'S' duct, as the team sought to maximise room for suspension componentry rather than apportion space for aerodynamic pipework. For 2017, the designers have looked at how Mercedes and Toro Rosso achieved the packaging of their solutions last season and assimilated it into their own design. Of course we know most of the talk about its nose centered on the inlet in the nose tip in the early stages but as we've already talked about this, the main focus is the movement of air from a forward point on the nose and the channeling of it through the nose to the upper surface of the chassis. As we can see (above) air is...
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