The battle for development in the 2022 Formula 1 season is being fascinating, especially due to the duel between the two top favorites to win the world titles, Ferrari and Red Bull.
Both teams are the ones that offer the most news every race weekend, although with different approaches, since those from Maranello prefer to introduce fewer updates, but when they do, they are of greater importance.
However, at the Belgian Grand Prix, which will be the first appointment after the summer holidays, the Prancing Horse riders will mount a new rear wing on their F1-75 to try to increase top speed on the long straights of the track. Ardennes.
It is a very similar version to the one already put on the track in Baku, with a flat main profile that begins to bend near the ends to reduce aerodynamic drag and achieve higher ground speed.
The Italian team has also adapted the movable flap, which has a nolder on the trailing edge, while that element arches towards the new side supports, all to seek an increase in efficiency, especially when the DRS is opened. .
Ferrari F1-75 rear wing detail at the French GP
This solution is very different from the one they premiered in Canada with Charles Leclerc, a piece that they used later but with minor modifications, and it had a pronounced spoon shape in the main profile, while the vertices that support the mobile flap were more rounded than the spoiler of Spa-Francorchamps.
Ferrari F1-75 rear wing detail in Baku
The Belgian track has two long flat sections, in the first and third sectors, although the second section requires more downforce. To do this, they will have to find the perfect balance , but it will not be easy, especially if the cars in red have to overcome possible grid penalties if they mount new elements of the power unit.
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