A few weeks ago my colleague Igor commented that Ferrari had given the main problem of the designs of his single-seater, outdated wind tunnel. An aspect that was greatly by conditioning the aerodynamics of their cars, and that leaves them in inferiority with respect to many of its rivals, which does have latest wind tunnels.
The Scuderia has put the batteries and plans to improve its facilities at the end of summer. With them they hope to put an end to the problems affecting its wind tunnel. So much so, that they used the of Toyota Motorsport, located in Cologne, to assist in the design of the Ferrari 150 ° Italy.
Ferrari has been identified that their wind tunnel produces erroneous data, which do not correspond with reality. This detail was confirmed when they compared their results with those obtained in the Toyota. In addition to contributing to the design of its current single-seat, also they used in order to calibrate their own. The conclusion is known by all, of the Maranello needs more than a simple hand of sheet metal and painting.
The changes have already begun to try to alleviate the situation, and the technical director Aldo Costa said yesterday in Turkey that there will be major reforms later this year:
It is not uncommon to have a problem with the wind tunnel, unfortunately when what we have received much attention. These cars are very complex in terms of management of vortices in many areas, and there are certain areas where it is not working too well. So we have analyzed parts of the tunnel and aspects of its architecture. Redesigning probably will be after the break of August, around September or October.The Italian confirmed that they have used the Toyota facilities:
We investigate the Toyota wind tunnel, so we have the possibility to compare three different environments, our tunnel, yours and the track, and also a fourth because the CFD (computational fluid dynamics). I think that we have made considerable progress, and I hope that we will have a very good correlation between the tunnel and the track for September or October. By then we hope to forget about the problems has been accusing.
