While the identity of F1’s top four teams seems pretty settled right now, things are far more open in the midfield. SomersF1 takes a look at the floor upgrades for Alpine and McLaren which made their debut at the AzerbaijanGP. ⬇️
, who are vying for honours at the head of the chasing pack, are pushing on hard with car developments.
And whilst this area is hidden away out of sight, we can still appreciate how the changes visible on the top surfaces can have an impact below.In McLaren’s case, the alterations being made might at first appear to be isolated to the floor edge and edge wing, but definition and contour changes been made to the entire surface of the floor.
At the rear of the floor, it’s clear to see that the interface between the sidepod and ramped kickup has also been recharacterised in order to take advantage of the changes that have been made upstream . As a consequence, the rear portion of the floor has also been modified to make better use of the new flow structures generated ahead of it.The changes made by Alpine are not as extensive but could be just as rewarding from a performance standpoint, given they are optimisations of the design language that was already present in the old specification.
The sidepod redesign centred around the size of the inlet, with the aperture widened but reduced in height in order to both improve cooling efficiency whilst increasing the size of the undercut to reap the aerodynamic rewards that’s on offer for doing so.
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