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**BariGrootrego** · 02-10-2009, 07:04 AM

Overheating cars are the norm with Newey, so no surprise there.
BTW today that had to stop after only 14 laps because they didn't know why the gearbox oil was to hot!
Well, maybe because there is not enough cooling for it?! Chronic disease of Newey designs, fast but highly unreliable cars.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73191

A striking feature is the small size of the sidepods: these taper down and inwards far more than other cars, and neither are they undercut, instead flaring outwards at their base. Their small size appears to be largely as a result of Red Bull finding different places for cooling outlets, there being two removable panels each side of the engine cover to vent hot air, one being high up near the pointed section of the engine cover and the other being in the unpainted section of bodywork above the exhaust outlet.

These are rendition to the normal exit at the end of the coke bottle shape, which is correspondingly much smaller in order to send more flow over the diffuser and beam wing. The aim seems to be the overriding philosophy for the tail of the RB5, the conventional shape of this area and the mechanical parts it contains has been discarded in favour of far more innovative ideas.

02-10-2009, 07:04 AM	#30
BariGrootrego Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	Overheating cars are the norm with Newey, so no surprise there. BTW today that had to stop after only 14 laps because they didn't know why the gearbox oil was to hot! Well, maybe because there is not enough cooling for it?! Chronic disease of Newey designs, fast but highly unreliable cars. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73191 A striking feature is the small size of the sidepods: these taper down and inwards far more than other cars, and neither are they undercut, instead flaring outwards at their base. Their small size appears to be largely as a result of Red Bull finding different places for cooling outlets, there being two removable panels each side of the engine cover to vent hot air, one being high up near the pointed section of the engine cover and the other being in the unpainted section of bodywork above the exhaust outlet. These are rendition to the normal exit at the end of the coke bottle shape, which is correspondingly much smaller in order to send more flow over the diffuser and beam wing. The aim seems to be the overriding philosophy for the tail of the RB5, the conventional shape of this area and the mechanical parts it contains has been discarded in favour of far more innovative ideas.
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