Hopefully people will have time to notice and upload aero and mechanical development for other interested peoples’ benefit.
("Ferrari design chief Nikolas Tombazis says about the Maranello squad’s latest car "
The new F10 we had to review the whole car, from the nose to the rear wing, for two main reasons: the substantial changes in some of the rules and because we had to recover an obvious performance deficit we had last year compared to our competitors,” he said. “We had to make the car longer to fit the bigger [fuel] tank, and we had to revise the car’s front end because the tyres are different.
“And perhaps more importantly, we also had to revise the car’s rear axle to exploit the double diffuser as much as possible.”
In order to free up space for a larger diffuser the F10 has a much more compact gearbox than its predecessor and revised rear suspension, although the chassis as a whole is longer to accommodate the larger fuel tank required this year now that refuelling is banned.
“Last year we weren’t able to build a diffuser that was efficient enough, because the car hadn’t been planned from the start for something like that,” said Tombazis.
“And in fact the F2009’s gearbox was too wide, so we weren’t able to exploit the double diffuser as much as we would have liked to.
“This year we completely revised the gearbox and made it smaller, so there’s more space for the diffuser, and we also worked on the rear suspension.
“Some of the internal parts of this narrower gearbox had to be redesigned; building an efficient, reliable and sufficiently rigid gearbox was an important task.
“So the area which is visually very different from last year’s car is around the diffuser – which, due to the mechanical work and [changes to] the gearbox and the suspension, is now bigger.
“Due to the work on the diffuser, we also had to review the flow to the rear wheels, where various appendages are different from those on the F2009.” ) SOURCE : New Ferrari ?very different? from ?09 car – F1 | ITV Sport
Since there are already photos available on the other threads, i will upload one
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Detail of the nose cone
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Detail of the side pod
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Comparison between Last year car and this years
TOP VIEW:
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Initial observations: clearly shows that the overall length is much longer with larger wheel base probably to accommodate bigger fuel tank
front view:
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Initial observations:
Copying a successful design is pretty easy way to start i guess the nose looks so much like red bull design,
The front wing looks much like last year (evolution)probably they haven’t revealed the final one
Surprisingly the rear wing is much lower.
The Air box seems to be little smaller and placed higher.
PS: i really didn’t like the color scheme though, its personal i guess
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