Hmmm, the Y250 vortices of the Alfa Romeo are spinning in the wrong direction in this animation. :/

Your guys’ technical breakdowns are hardly technical. Honestly, this guy theorizes, and does not actually explain anything new for seasoned F1 fans. Instead he uses tired, arbitrary and generalized phrases. Lame.

Get an aerodynamicist. He was Carp!

I bet if the Mercedes and Alfa aerodynamicists watched this video, they would be laughing their heads off 😁😂🤣👎

Wish they’d have addressed the boundary layer along the spinning tire and its effects on the out wash vortices.

nice video. very helpful

This is getting ridiculous now. You guys are just trying too hard to look smart. Did Someone just got a hold of Adobe After Effect in the office recently?

Half of the vortices are shown spinning in the wrong direction and it's driving me mental

Basically the third world Scarbs for PeterWindsor

Interesting! Do you think we'll see a convergence in wing styles as the season progresses? And how fast could the teams that "got it wrong" (or less ideal) adapt? As I understand, changing the front wing design would mean changing the whole aerodynamic package of the car. So maybe, teams like Mercedes and Ferrari would rather stick to their own, very different, design philosophies?

I think he's missing a bit on the Alpha wing. I think the big plank yes does do the downforce like he says but it also forces a lot of air to race around it, thus helping the outflow around the tire.

Hire scarbs, this is a joke. That graphics team you have is a first year student quality.

These guys don't have a clue about aerodynamics. They just keep regurgitating trite remarks and pretend to be experts. The Y250 vortex is spinning the wrong way for crying out loud.

This is like the dollar store version of scarbs

Loving the #AlfaRomeoRacing wings!!

Oh, you finally inverted the car and the helmet on the background. It took more time than completing a lap for a williams car noways.

The y250 on the sauber is rotating in the wrong direction in the video, on the outboard section where the high AOA meets the flatter section would produce a bottom in rotating vortex hitting the front face of the tire at an angle instead of straight green flow as shown

Please please ; in future all the technical explaining , make Graphic added comment please. I now understand much better, Thank you

I can't believe this guy described vortices as "baby tornados". Guys, please be serious.

Thak you for making another video about fron wing

Can u do a video on pu and party mode

are the wings now not more important and any damage in a race could have serious consequences?

Huff. Firstly, this analysis does not make sense when the wheels are pointing straight. For there you can start to speak about how the car is generating downforce whilst cornering. This is particularly important on the outside of the front wing as the rear of the car is rotating into the turbulence of the outside front tyre. Now this is particularly evident with the sauber as the is a clear demarcation of geometry between the downforce generating section and the flow structure section. Creating such ubrupt geometric difference suggests that the section interacting with the tyre is that part with the curious lack of slot gap. However, if considering there is a large blockage behind the wing created be the tyre then the principle shifts from flow separation concerns to flow volume concerns. Meaning that the flow volume interacting with the tyre allows for greater consideration of the high pressure rather than the low downforce creating pressure. This is why they have a gurney flap to help aid a greater high pressure interaction. Normally for example high pressure is just an energy wasting process, like trying to blow on your drink to make is go up the straw. Now that there is this exasperated high pressure section this could be used to interact with a low pressure region and create a more dominant flow structure. The low pressure comes of the end plate and thus allowing for a stronger and wider outwash. The strakes under the wing of the merc does something similar in a more conventional way. But, rather than exaggerating the tyre blockage they are trying to exaggerate the low pressure of the wing section that is outside of the tyre. Which is better? neither, one is stronger and one is more efficient. But, if there was a team that understands the flow structures that interact with the rear of the car in yaw, it is merc. something something......

Does anyone have expertise in CFD? How difficult/expensive would it be to do an analysis of approximations of the two wing types?

Lets have race without front wings

I need to redesign my aircon vent that can create vortices around the headrest with sufficient outwash to ensure my rear passengers have sufficient cooling

So now we know about the '250' but what about the 'Y?'

How do the blown hubs affect the flow around the front tire?

What a duo! JBL and that sofa.

Love these graphics!

Been trying to watch this now for a couple of weeks. Can anyone tell me who these guys are? Ever been near an f1 car? Or even watched a race live?

next video on autosport, Alfa is faster than Mercedes

My precious

Very well done 👍

When the air passes through the car, it feels refreshing like in front of an electric fan.

i know just a small bit about aerodynamics and they got it almost all wrong. like the step in the end plate of the mersedies. the high part will have lower pressure difference and will have a big but slow spill over vortex. the step part will have way higher presser then on the other side of the end plate and will have a small but powerful spill over vortex. if u combine them u can get a vortex in a vortex or u can make them blend.u can have the big one pull the fast one to the outside. or the small one can pull the big one to the inside. u can have them murage in to a ovel for a short bit and use that as a wall. or it can produce counter rotation so that the top of one vortex will power the bottom of the other. having tall but narrow high speed air instead of big round and slower spinning air. wat i think the merc idea is to have the angel of the step down vortex be way to the outside. this being helped by the curve of the end plate and the ridge on the outside end of the of the end plate. the big and slow vortex will want to hit the tire.but at the 3'o clock moment it will hit the 12'o clock of the fast vortex and be powered to the outside of the wheel. wiles the small high speed vortex has time to lose its power and fade in to the big opening in front of the tire. again im no expert but, i know better then to just just add random vortexes inside the front wing streaks. they are there to maintain laminar and more impotently strait flow.

JBL talks like he’s trying to stifle a fart every few seconds.

They nerfed our front wing? Let’s build a tons of wings on our barge boards.

I have never seen a person with a more kubical head than JBL.

Surely it would be easier to just show us cfd modeling, those lines are nice but they still over simplifying things.

Alfa front wing should be band on the grounds of FIA directive of stopping out wash.....I do think.

the purple lines do this and according top this Chap not only do these wings create down pressure ...They create Weather Tornado's and the SUCH ...what a LARK!

Y'all can talk about ur alfa and mercedes front wings, but my front wing is innovative, advanced, ultra light and better than the Lidl budget frontwings of mercedes and especially alfa romeo. I cant believe everyone takes this newbie team and its horrible frontwing serious, while i have been a respectable designer for decades and get little to no attention in this video.

I wonder why F1 never build bodywork on the back of the tires. That's where all the drag is happening. If FIA allows it F1 could have been even faster.

Oh dear....

Jbl actually called the vortex a baby tornado! What a lad!

All you talk about is the front wing.

Not long now it's getting so close first race 🤗🤗🤗

y250's in the wrong direction :/ come on guys. I feel sorry for the presenters who (hopefully) saw this and were dissapointed by it but had to do the talk anyways as if it wasn't obviously wrong.

I'm fairly certain than Mercedes gonna show up in Melbourne with lots of Ferrari's design cues just like every other things they copied from Ferrari. James Allison might have done to them what he did to Ferrari.

People... I have a fun game... Have a shot each time JBL says Vortex... :D Trust me it's real fun..... :D :p

That Alfa is gonna suffer mightily if its front wing gets damaged in any way.

Who else thinks they installed the frosted glass because the comments lit up w/ creepy comments every time a video came out with a woman walking past in the background?

Yawn... Modern Formula 1 should be renamed Formula Aero and sponsored by a bubbly chocolate bar.

You should hire an engineer or aerodynamicist for this stuff...shouldn't be too difficult

I'm sorry but what are the qualifications of these guys to supposedly go "in depth" on these explanations? this whole video reeks of overly complicating VERY BASIC airflow concepts?...

These guys dont know shit and that simulation is just animated. journalists arent engineers

0:20 wtf is this guy talking about?

F1 + nuclear reactor engines.

Can y’all consider inviting Mark Priestley? An actual former F1 engineer is always good as a perspective.

Blue air, pink air, purple air and swirling vortices. Seriously? Guys you can do better than this.

Good Analysis..😊😊

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These Autosport guys are clearly just blagging it. No qualifications to speak of. No technical information whatsoever. We have just a single image of a wing, with some speculative coloured animations generously drawn over it. Is this what F1 has come to now?

Good analysis! Mutch better than Rich energy Scarbs!! : D

F1 used to attract millionaire playboys and blondes bc of it's sex appeal, now it's just a geekfest for geeks and nerds(like these two blokes), lost most of its raw and risky nature & replaced it with safe, logical snd rigid one.

shouldv done a ferrari vs merc front wing airflow comparison not against alfa

been watching these shitty F1 videos pre season on Autosport now for what feel like months! All I have to say is - OI AUTOSPORT, NOOOOOOOOOOOO. WTF1 have more credibility these days! Is F1 where real motorsports fans dont go or something??

Without Scarborough and Windsor , this channel is so boring. No professional analysis and infantile guessing about facts. USELESS!!