23 days left! The new season of F1 is about to kick off! As teams have released their cars and liveries for the new season, and have taken to the track in pre-season test races that begin today, fans have finally heard the familiar sound of engines! So today, let's take stock of the new cars released by each team.
Chronologically, on February 4, Haas team debuted a concept art for their new car, the VF-22. It's a car with a ferrari power unit and transmission configuration. In terms of suspension, Haas team chose a pusher layout, that is, the joystick is mounted on the top of the front of the car, in contrast to the pull rod layout, that is, the rocker is installed at the bottom of the front. In addition, the front nose wing of the VF-22 is more down than the 2022F1 concept car released by the FIA last year, which is used to cut the air flow to ensure the stability of the air flow under the nose wing. At the same time, the side air intake of VF-22 is much smaller than it used to be visible to the naked eye.
The left side is a tie rod type The right side is a push rod type
The red bull new car RB18 released on February 9 is more than 90% similar to the FIA concept car, and it is clear that the Engineers of Red Bull understand the importance of hiding clumsiness, and this display car is also called the "FIA 2022F1 concept car in Red Bull livery" by the F1 official website, although some are not too distracted, but this really arouses the appetite of all fans!
Then, on February 10 and 11, Aston Martin and McLaren released the AMR22 and MCL36 in succession. Aston Martin's AMR22 differs significantly from Haas's new car, in terms of the design of the side radiators: the AMR22 uses a gill-cooled slat design that was lifted in 2022, and the entire side compartment is more sunken and slender. However, there is a point where the overall shape of the AMR22 is slightly eerie when viewed from the air...
McLaren's MCL36 made a very bold attempt at the front and rear suspension, he was the first team to show the tie rod front suspension, and in the rear suspension, McLaren completely abandoned the traditional putter tie arrangement.
On February 14, Little Red Bull released its new car AT03, and Little Red Bull continued to use the design of the front section lift, the rear extreme downward exploration narrowing, and the AT03 wheel cover is also one of the most concise.
The February 15 release of the Williams FW44 was a sight to behold in the side box design, unlike other teams, the williams designers focused most of the cooling system on the front of the side box, where they set up a huge radiator entrance, while they shrunk the side box as tightly as possible, so that the side box was reduced to a further rear position. In addition, the FW44's engine cover air intakes are also unusually large.
Ferrari and Meben unveiled their new cars F1-75 and W13 on February 17 and 18, respectively. Ferrari's F1-75 is painted in a darker red colour and has a unique design on the side boxes, with a slow descent in the rear half but retaining an upward curvature ramp. In addition, the side compartment of the F1-75 is fused with the bonnet and has a sector-shaped section at the transition, while Ferrari has also designed a fish gill cooling plate on the top surface of the side box.
F1-75 with MCL36
The side box design of the new Mayben W13 is different from the Ferrari team, the W13 does not have a narrow and flat side air intake, but adopts an extremely narrow and short side box protruding design, which also leads to the narrowing of the line in the rear of the W13 vehicle is the largest of all the teams.
By sacrificing the air intake performance, a large outward side box area is created, which replaces the wind breaking plate that is banned by the rules, and together with the end plate pointing outward, the air flow flowing through the middle side of the body is washed out.
Alpine's new car, the A522, is the only new one designed with two-segment gill cooling slats, which designs a set of cooling slats on the underside of the hood, above the inside of the side box. Another set of cooling plates is designed at the front and outside of the upper surface of the engine side compartment. At the same time, the side box of the A522 as a whole is the neatest and smoothest looking of any new car.
But the livery is more enjoyed by fans than the design of the car, with the other of the two liveries being painted in near-all pink to celebrate their new partnership with BWT, which the team will use in the first two races of the season.
As for the Alfa Romeo team of the Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu that we are most concerned about, the new car is planned to be shown on February 27, and based on this arrangement, in today's pre-season test race, the Alfa Romeo team racing and helmet are camouflaged, but from the only pictures, the air intake of the car to the triangle is observed to be huge, perhaps the largest of all the released cars.
In today's test race, Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu did not drive a car, instead of the 38-year-old veteran Kubica, "China Week" is only on the sidelines to observe and learn, and tomorrow afternoon and the morning after tomorrow will be Zhou Guanyu's car test time, I hope that Zhou Guanyu can run well with the team and his own car in the pre-season test, and look forward to Zhou Guanyu's performance in the new season!