Mercedes unveiled their car on the track of Silverstone a hour before noon. The reigning champion is the first to show a 2019 car in real life, with a shakedown planned under the guise of a filming day. F1technical did a first analysis/impression of the car Starting from the front, there's already one radical difference from the other launch previews and which nobody really anticipated: the endplates show an inwash design. Now it's not clear if the target is to get the airflow to the inside of the wheel, or if this is an actually more beneficial form factor to better help decrease wheel turbulence through a different interaction of airflows on the inside and outside of the endplate. The...
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