Checkout The Impressive Low Drag Upgrades For 2024 Italian Grand Prix

The most anticipated race on the F1 calendar is here where the machine matters more than the man. The Temple Of Speed, Monza will see the new challenger Lando Norris, and the old guard Max Verstappen battle it out on the straights passing each other at 200 miles per hour.

By Joshua Burnett

Published August 30, 2024

Checkout The Impressive Low Drag Upgrades For 2024 Italian Grand Prix

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Red Bull Racing
2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Scuderia Ferrari
2024 Italian GP Upgrades For McLaren Formula 1 Team
2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Aston Martin F1 Team
2024 Italian GP Upgrades For BWT Alpine

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Red Bull Racing

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Front Wing	In order to achieve the targeted range of aerobalance with the level of rear wing, the second flap element has been trimmed to reduce the lift at a given speed
Rear Wing	In order to achieve the targeted aerodynamic drag the flap chord has been trimmed to reduce the load and therefore the drag.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Rear Wing	Flap tip backed off and camber reduced to drop local downforce and drag; suitable for a high L/D track like Monza.
Rear Wing	Both chord and camber reduced on the flap to drop local downforce and drag; suitable for a high L/D track like Monza.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Scuderia Ferrari

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Front Wing	The depowered front wing flap provides the required aero balance range associated to the optimum downforce level anticipated for Monza. Different trims are available, to allow modulation
Nose	Minor optimisation of the nose camera position for a better interaction between front wing upwash and front suspension legs, offering an improved flow quality downstream
Mirror	Minor update, a shorter mirror stay will be introduced for this event. As for the nose camera update, primary aim is to improve flow quality towards the back of the car
Floor Fences	Not event specific, this update features updated front floor fences targeting an improvement of the losses travelling downstream. The reshaped boat and tunnel expansion have been subsequently reoptimized, together with the floor edge loading and vortex shedding into the diffuser, which also receives the benefit of the deeper undercut.
Floor Body	Same As Floor Fence
Floor Edge	Same As Floor Fence
Diffuser	Same As Floor Fence
Coke/Engine Cover	Same As Floor Fence
Rear Wing	This update features depowered Top and Lower Rear Wing profiles in order to adapt to Monza layout peculiarities and efficiency requirements. Both a new design and the carry-over of last year’s geometries (TRW and LRW) will be available

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For McLaren Formula 1 Team

Component	Reason For Upgrade
High Cooling Front Brake Duct	To cope with the specific demands of this circuit, the Front Corner geometry has been revised, with the primary aim of increasing Brake Cooling performance while maintaining aerodynamic efficiency.
New Front Wing Flap	The Front Wing Flap has been redesigned to extend the available aerobalance range, which could be a requirement given the specific circuit layout
New Sidepod Shape	The new Sidepod results in an improvement in flow conditioning, beneficial for overall aerodynamic performance, mainly on the rear of the car.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Aston Martin F1 Team

Component	Reason For Upgrade
A new flap for the front wing with reduced incidence.	The less aggressive design decreases the load on the wing to balance the car with the lower loaded rear wing which will be used at this event.
Smaller beam wing with a short chord second element.	This beam wing has lower loading than the previous version and works in conjunction with the upper wing for this event to achieve the required drag range.
Upper rear with less aggressive sections, this assy has two options of flap.	This is a less aggressive upper wing cascade with lower load and drag than previous versions for use at this circuit efficiency.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For BWT Alpine

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Reprofiled front wing flap	This less loaded flap has been introduced to cover the required balance range when running lower rear wing levels as it is typically the case at this track.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Williams

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Part of the trailing edge of the front wing endplate is removed and the dive plane is reoriented.	This reduces drag but also affects the local load and the flow structures from the front wing endplate. In Monza, this is an efficient way of improving lap time.
A smaller and reprofiled rearward flap for the front wing is available	This revised geometry helps reduce local load on the front wing to provide the total front load required to balance the small rear wings that are used at this circuit.
An optional trim is available to the rear wing upper flap. This reduces the chord length of the flap.	This optional trim will be used depending on how we want to balance downforce and drag during the weekend. This trim simply reduces the area of the rear wing and therefore provides less downforce and less drag, which may be efficient for Monza

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For VCARB

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Front Wing	This smaller front flap reduces the amount of overall load generated by the front wing assembly, to balance the low drag rear wings used at this circuit.
Floor Body	Increased local downforce generation and management of the flow structures and losses as they travel downstream to minimize their impact
Rear Wing	Low downforce circuits demand more efficient, less-loaded rear wings. Less cambered aerofoil sections at lower angles of incidence generate less downforce & less induced drag.
Beam Wing	Reduces the load generated by the Beam Wing to allow further tuning of wing level to suit low downforce circuits.
Halo	Improves the losses shed from the Halo and their impact downstream.
Mirrors	Removal of specific elements around the mirror body which generate downforce & drag at a ratio which is less efficient than that required at Monza.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Kick sauber

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Low balance front wing flap design	The smaller front wing flap reduced the load generated by the front wing to ensure that we can rebalance the low-drag rear wing introduced for this circuit.
Redesigned forward floor body	The revised forward floor body increases local load while maintaining the cleanliness of the flow reaching the rear end.
Small change on the diffuser sidewall design	This change helps to increase high energy flow into the diffuser and at the same time to better control the tyre jet.
Low drag rear wing assemblyLow-balance	This new low-drag RW assembly reduces the efficiently load. We can combine the main plane with a more loaded optional flap to tune load and drag.

2024 Italian GP Upgrades For Haas

Component	Reason For Upgrade
Low camber Front Wing Flap	A specific Front Wing Flap design for low balance, to be coupled with the low drag Rear Wing introduced in Spa.
Re-profiled Lower wishbone and pushrod fairing	This step completes the front suspension fairing update, which started in Zandvoort together with the introduction of the new Front Wing. The re-profiling of the remaining suspension members allows them to be more compliant with the incoming flow

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