FERRARI ADDS CRITICAL COMPLEXITY
During pre-season testing, the bargeboard area on the Ferrari looked fairly basic when you compared it to the Mercedes, but small developments have been introduced, most recently in Bahrain, increasing the complexity and performance of this very influential area.
The bargeboards basically help everything else to work; the front wing, cooling, underfloor, diffuser and Coke-bottle area would all suffer if these components weren’t working properly, so it is a huge area of development.
The front area, with the three vertical red vanes and the components below them, combine to help pull airflow out from underneath the raised front of the chassis. This, in turn, reduces the blockage behind the front wing to improve its performance. The lower area helps prepare the airflow for the leading edge…
