Confirmed: The F1 Upgrades For Upcoming 2024 British Grand Prix

After the spicy Austrian GP last week, in which both Lando and Max collided, the stage is all set for another round between these two at the iconic Silverstone. Here are the FIA approved upgrades teams have implemented for the 2024 British GP

By Joshua Burnett

Published August 1, 2024

Confirmed: The F1 Upgrades For Upcoming 2024 British Grand Prix

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MERCEDES-AMG PETRONAS FORMULA ONE TEAM
MCLAREN FORMULA 1 TEAM
ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO FORMULA ONE TEAM
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Component	Description	How It Works
Floor Body	Subtle re-profiling of the surface above and behind the lower SIS tube	Optimizing the upper floor surface further based upon research and comparison with full scale results to get more energy thus pressure to the floor edge wing.
Floor Edge	Minor re-profiling of the edge wing with attendant detail	Given higher pressure upstream, the edge wing detail has been subtly changed to add more camber deriving more load whilst respecting the necessity for flow stability.

MERCEDES-AMG PETRONAS FORMULA ONE TEAM

Component	Description	How It Works?
Front Wing	Trimmed front wing flap	Trimmed/ smaller chord flap, reduces front wing load to achieve sensible car balance if low downforce rear wing is chosen to run.
Rear Wing	Reprofiled flap	Reducing local flap curvature reduces local flap load and offloads the mainplane - results in a lower downforce and lower drag upper wing.
Front Corner	Smaller front brake duct inlet and exit	Reducing the brake duct inlet and exit size reduces the mass flow feeding and cooling the brake disc and caliper.
Rear Corner	Upper lip realignment	Better aligning the upper caketin lip to the local onset flow improves flow attachment through a range of conditions resulting in more local load.

MCLAREN FORMULA 1 TEAM

Component	Description	How It Works?
Rear Wing	Lower Downforce Rear Wing	In anticipation of higher isochronal circuits, a less loaded Rear Wing assembly is introduced for this event, with the aim of reducing drag efficiently.
Beam Wing	High load Beamwing	With the target to widen the operating range of the newly introduced low downforce wing, a high load Beam Wing has been designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Beam Wing	Mid load Beamwing	With the target to increase the operating range of the newly introduced low downforce wing, a mid load Beam Wing has been designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Beam Wing	Low load Beamwing	With the target to increase the operating range of the newly introduced low downforce wing, a low load Beam Wing has been designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Coke/Engine Cover	Additional Cooling Exit	The new Bodywork features an additional cooling exit, allowing an increase in cooling massflow, resulting in both an increase in overall cooling capacity as well as efficiency.

ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO FORMULA ONE TEAM

Component	Description	How It Works
Front Wing	Modified twist distribution of the wing elements changing the front view shape.	Changing the twist distribution of the wing modifies the spanwise loading to improve the overall performance of the wing and downstream interactions.
Rear Corner	The small element on the outboard face of the lip has been replaced with a twin arrangement.	The twin elements offer an improvement in alignment and downwash for improved wheel wake management increasing the load on the surrounding geometry.

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Component	Description	How It Works
Halo	The winglet on the top of the Halo will be removed in some configurations.	The airflow around the Halo influences the downstream areas of the car including the rear wing, making removing it relevant in certain circumstances.

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Component	Description	How It Works?
Floor Fences	An additional, alternative trim of the floor fences	The different trim of the floor fences further optimises the flow of air in this crucial area of the car, improving the overall flow and aero efficiency of the package.

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Component	Description	How It Works?
Floor Body	Modification of the expansion with this new floor	The different expansion increases the floor suction and therefore the underfloor mass-flow, resulting in overall more load coming from the floor.
Floor Fences	Alignment of the floor fences	The new floor geometry requires a different alignment of the front floor fences, as the direction of the incoming floor changes with the floor expansion.
Floor Edge	The new floor body required a modification of the floor edge as well	The new floor body has a different expansion and therefore requires an adaptation of the floor edge wing, which is now more coherent with floor body and is able to extract more flow, resulting in a local load increase.
Sidepod Inlet	Updated Inlet geometry, now with a longer higher lip	This geometry allows to deliver a cleaner floe to the rear end of the car, resulting in an overall performance increase.
Coke/Engine Cover	The updated Inlet geometry required a minor revision of the sidepod	The new Sidepod Inlet geometry required changes that protrude quite backwards on the sidepod, which was therefore updated accordingly. The new sidepod is now able to accommodate some top cooling gills as well.
Mirror Stay	The new Sidepod Inlet required a new rear stay of the mirror	The updated rear stay of the mirror has changed position and was optimized to condition the top sidepod flow in order to increase the load of the rear end of the car.
Rear Corner	Different position and trim of the lower quadruplane (FIA geometry) T	The new floor required to optimize the flow around the rear tyres as well. The improved incoming flow on the rear corner allows an increased expansion, resulting in a higher local load.