The Canadian GP is only a day away. Almost everyone has got some sort of upgrades apart from McLaren and Ferrari. Most Upgrades are related to front brake ducts and rear wing.
Team | Component | Reason | How The Upgrade Works |
ORACLE RED BULL RACING | Rear Wing | Re-profiled rear wing flap across the span | Optimizing the flap geometry in an iteration from the previous design to extract locally more load whilst maintaining adequate flow stability for all the conditions encountered. |
Front Corner | a larger front brake cooling exit duct | The brake energy for the Montreal circuit is high enough to necessitate an enlarged exit duct from the front wheel bodywork, moving both inboard and upwards. | |
MERCEDES-AMG PETRONAS FORMULA ONE TEAM | Front Suspension | Realignment of track rod and lower wishbone forward leg. | Realigning both the track rod and the lower wishbone forward leg to the local onset flow from the front wing reduces boundary layer losses and hence improves the flow to the floor. |
Front Corner | Increased inlet size. | Increasing the brake duct inlet size, increases mass flow to the disc, which in turn increases heat rejection from the disc to the air. | |
SCUDERIA FERRARI | None | ||
McLaren | None | ||
ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO FORMULA ONE TEAM | Beam Wing | Twist distribution is revised with lower tips. | The spanwise loading of the beam wing is modified from the revised twist distribution, which increases the load generated, particularly near the tips. |
BWT ALPINE F1 TEAM | None | ||
WILLIAMS RACING | Front Suspension | A shorter steering arm is available for this event. | This changes the ratio between steering wheel angle and road wheel angle and affects the drivers’ ability to control of the car. |
Rear Suspension | A new rear pullrod is available. Geometrically it is unchanged other than it provides a larger range of ride height adjustment. The construction is updated to provide a weight saving benefit. | The new pullrod design simply brings the car closer to the legal weight limit. It also allows the ride height to be adjusted within a larger range without the need to physically swap the pullrod component. | |
VISA CASH APP RB FORMULA ONE TEAM | Rear Wing | The camber & incidence of the upper wing profiles is an evolution of the previous design. | The profile redesign provides more efficient downforce generation than the previous wing, whilst retaining the same range of drag suitable for high-speed circuits. |
Front Wing | Shorter chord and reduced incidence compared to previous flap. | This smaller front flap reduces the amount of overall load generated by the front wing assembly, in order to balance the low drag rear wings expected to be used at this circuit. | |
STAKE F1 TEAM KICK SAUBER | Rear Wing | Redesigned main plane and flap | The new profile of the rear wing, with a reduced flap and redesigned main plane, fine-tune our aerodynamic profile for the low-drag requirements of the Canadian GP. |
Beam Wing | Redesigned beam wing profile | Together with the main rear wing update, this reprofiled beam wing improves the aerodynamic performance in the situations expected to be encountered in Montreal. | |
MONEYGRAM HAAS F1 TEAM | Front Wing | Less cambered Front Wing Flap without IB hook | Due to potential low front balance requirements a revised Front Wing Flap is available: the reduced camber lowers the front load and increase Efficiency of the FW itself. |