Red Bull engine cover

[Andy B]

The distraction effect works it has 8 wheels.

[Dare]

Made me think of the old
Hill Embassy car

[Steven Roy]

Red Bull isn't Ferrari's B-team; they're powered by Renault. Perhaps Red Bull will quickly send Toro Rosso a copy of the design (assuming it works, and noting that Toro Rosso do have Ferrari engines) to avoid the FIA's ire?

The FIA would probably prosecute STR for spying.

The one thing you can say for certain is everyone else will have a fin in their wind tunnel this week and that may be the distraction.

Adrian Newey thought of it so it must be good is the kind of logic I like and use.  You can bet it is also used by F1 teams since Newey's cars have won more races than Schumacher there is good reason to worry when he comes up with something new..

[Chameleon]

Red Bull are saying now that it helps with the stability of the car on entry to corners - under braking, in other words.  In my view, that is all it can do.  It acts as a dirty great rudder sticking into the airstream, except that it's not designed to turn either way.  I can't really see it having much effect on the rear wing and it's unlikely that it helps to clear up the wake of the airbox.

Kamm's Law states that airflow will break away from a rearward facing slope of the car once the angle between the horizontal and the slope exceeds 7 degrees.  Turn that sideways and you have the amount by which the airboxes may come together at the rear.  Otherwise the air would break away into eddies and you'd have the dreaded drag.  I can't see cars that have been in the windtunnel ignoring such a simple way of avoiding drag.

Unless nobody told Honda about Professor Kamm...