Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts

The manipulation of air around a car is the single biggest performance differentiator in F1 – and collectively the teams employ hundreds of people and spend many millions of pounds on refining it to find that crucial extra bit of speed. To solve this problem, last year we would use the airflow off the front wing to kick the tyre wake as far out and away from the car as possible. The Ferrari approach is more loaded in the middle of the wing and quite unloaded at the tips – on the wing, you can see that the highest point of the flaps is at their inside edge, and they slope downwards towards the outside of the car.

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