Paddock insiders already have a name for Mercedes’ new front wing innovation — ‘W-duct’.<\/p>\n
We have reported that the German marque has already tested the F-duct style concept at the front of its newly-launched W03 car.<\/p>\n
The Finnish broadcaster MTV3, describing the system as ‘W-duct’, has provided some detail as to how it works.<\/p>\n
When the car is being driven in a straight line, air flows into the tip of the silver car’s nose and is dispersed in a W-like pattern across the length of the front wing.<\/p>\n
But when the car is cornering, the air flows more predominantly to one side or the other, improving the balance and handling.<\/p>\n
Unlike the driver-operated rear wing F-duct, which was banned for 2011, Mercedes’ system is entirely passive and requires no moving parts, and is therefore legal.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, team boss Ross Brawn on Tuesday defended Mercedes’ strategy of employing numerous technical bosses, including Aldo Costa, Bob Bell and Geoff Willis.<\/p>\n
“How it works is a mystery to me,” Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko told Die Welt newspaper, “but Mercedes must know what they’re doing.”<\/p>\n
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