Technical: Ferrari with the most aggressive, Mercedes with the biggest rear wing in Montreal

The present 4 high groups, Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes are set to make use of a medium downforce configuration rear wing at the Canadian Grand Prix, with the Brackley-based outfit choosing the most downforce spec rear wing. F1Technical’s lead journalist Balazs Szabo reveals the high groups’ alternative for Montreal.

The present Montreal circuit options excessive high finish speeds due to its lengthy straights. Combined with its fairly quick size, it is also the shortest lap of the season for an F1 automobile, going spherical in roughly 75 seconds.

The straights are linked by tight hairpins the place the automobiles brake right down to somewhat beneath 60km/h so the problem is to mix this robust top-end energy with efficient engine braking and choose up on the entry and exits to the sluggish pace corners.

Allied to this, the two hairpins and the chicane imply the internals are intensely loaded 3 times a lap after which pressured additional beneath the acceleration forces, main Montréal to be referred to as an engine breaker in the previous.

The lengthy straights often immediate groups to go for decrease downforce wing as it isn’t solely essential for reaching the greatest general efficiency, however a scarcity of high pace might additionally make a driver weak down the again straight which affords a wonderful overtaking alternative.

However, as it’s at all times the case in Formula One, the alternative of the optimum downforce configuration is way from apparent. The intense braking zones require a secure automobile which might then favour the next downforce configuration.

The biggest job is for the engineers to decide on the optimum downforce stage for the Montreal circuit which might be harder than on every other tracks.

The pictures of revered journalist Albert Fabrega reveal that every one high outfits elected for a medium-downforce rear wing. However, there are small, however vital variations.

Ferrari seem to have the lowest downforce rear wing at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Their mainplane is extraordinarily small with the U-shaped convex curve of the central part being much less pronounced than the rivals’ options. The identical is true for the obligatory concave part between the outer a part of the mainplane and the endplate which can also be the least pronounced amongst the high 4 squads’ designs.

By distinction, Mercedes opted for a rear wing meeting that incorporates a very pronounced inside spoon-shaped part which results in an aggressively-designed concave outer phase. Thanks to this huge parabolic central part, Mercedes was capable of design a flap that’s much less steep.

McLaren and Red Bull sit between Mercedes and Ferrari in phrases of their alternative. Red Bull’s meeting sports activities a pronounced central part, however it’s much less aggressively-designed than the considered one of Mercedes. In flip, the flap of the Milton Keynes-based squad’s rear wing is far steeper.

McLaren has the same design to Ferrari in phrases of rear wing, however the outer concave part is extra pronounced, albeit the two groups have opted to totally different flap. Ferrari’s meeting incorporates a extra aggressively-designed tip part whereas the Scuderia additionally makes use of a Gurney flap.

Teams are divided in phrases of the V-shaped cut-out on the flap that sits over the DRS mechanism. Red Bull and McLaren opted for a comparatively large cut-out whereas Ferrari and Mercedes elected to make use of a flap that sports activities a linear edge.