2022 Car Launches and Livery Thread

[Bagwan]

Not quite 'sidepodless' but still impressively reduced nonetheless.
I always (wrongly?) assumed the sidepod dimensions were cooling airflow volume dictated but now it appears that they may have been more structure dimension related?

Judging from Merc possibly/allegedly being able to run their engines in a very lean high power mode last year... and now this, I can't help wondering if there is a corealation and Merc have made some clever cooling tech advances to allow them to be able to do either.

Pat Symonds says :
"The intercooler that I was talking about, I think, comes from Reaction Engines in Oxfordshire, the people who are doing this sort of air breathing rocket motor, and the sort of spin-off from that has been this really extremely efficient heat exchanger technology."

[Zico]

Pat Symonds says :
"The intercooler that I was talking about, I think, comes from Reaction Engines in Oxfordshire, the people who are doing this sort of air breathing rocket motor, and the sort of spin-off from that has been this really extremely efficient heat exchanger technology."

Nice quote find Baggie, thanks.
Had to google the company, looks to be real cutting edge thermal managment.
https://reactionengines.co.uk/motorsport/

I doubt Merc are the only ones using this tech though.

[Bagwan]

Nice quote find Baggie, thanks.
Had to google the company, looks to be real cutting edge thermal managment.
https://reactionengines.co.uk/motorsport/

I doubt Merc are the only ones using this tech though.

Probably not , since bag and Pat let the cat out of the bag .