F1 Silverstone paddock insider spots new Red Bull floor, and Mercedes wings
Our reporter in the F1 Brꦅitish Grand Prix paddock, Lewis Larkam, spots major car upgrades

Red Bull
Floor Body Performance - Flow Conditioning. Subtle re-profiling of the surface above and behind the lower SIS tube. Optimising the upper floor surface further based upon research and comparison wiಞth full scale results to get more energy thus presure to the fl꧒oor edge wing.
Updated floor body and floor edge on the RB20
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Floor Edge Performance - Local Load. Minor re-profiling of the edge wing with attendant detail. Given higher pressure upstream, the edge wing detail has been su♉btley changed to add more camber deriving more load whilst respecting the necessity for flow stability.
Mercedes
Front Wing - Circuit specific - Balance Range. Trimmed front wing flap. Trimmed/ smaller chord flap, reduces front wing load to achieve sensဣible car balance 🐷if low downforce rear wing is chosen to run
Rear Wing - Ci𝔍rcuit specific - Drag Range. Reprofiled flap. Reducing local flap curvature reduces local flap load and offloads the mainplane - results in a lower downforce and lower drag upper wing.
Updated Mercedes W15 feat𝐆ures new front wing, front corner, rear wing and rear corner
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Front Corner - Circuit specific - Cooling Range. Smaller front brake duct inlet and exit. Reducing the brake duct inlet and exit size reduces th🧔e mass flow feeding an♑d cooling the brake disc and calliper.
Rear Corner - Performance - Local Load. Upper lip realignment. Better aligning the uppꦇer caketin lip to the local onset flow improves flow attachment through a range of conditions resulting in more local load.
McLaren
Rear Wing - Circuiꦍt ♓specific - Drag Range Lower Downforce Rear Wing In anticipation of higher isochronal circuits, a less loaded Rear Wing assembly is introduced for this event, with the aim of reducing drag efficiently.
Beam Wing - Circuit specific - Drag Range High load Beamwing With the target to widen the operating range of the newly introdu꧑ced low downforce wing, a high load Beam Wing has beenܫ designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Beam Wing - 🐭Circuit specific - Drag Range Mid load Beamwing With the target to increase the operating range of the newly introduced low downforce wing, a mid load Beam Wing has been designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Beam Wing - Circuit specific - ♛Drag Range Low load Beamwing With the target to increase the operating range of the newly introduced low downforce wing, a low load Beam Wing has been designed to trade downforce and drag efficiently.
Coke/Engine Cover - Circuit specific - Cooling Range Additional Cooling Exit The ne💖w Bodywork features an additional cooling exit, allowing an increase in cooling massflow, resulting in both an increase in overall cooling capacity as well a🌱s efficiency.
Upgraded McLaren
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Aston Martin
Front Wing - Performance - Local Load Modified twist distribution of the wing elem🉐ents changing the front view shape. Changing the twist distriಞbution of the wing modifies the spanwise loading to improve the overall performance of the wing and downstream interactions.
Rear Corner - Performance - Local Load The small element on the outboard face of the lip has been replaced with a twin arrangement. The twin elements offer an improvement in alignment and downwash for improved wheel wake management increasing the load on surrouဣnding geometꦗry.
RB
Halo - Performance - Flow Conditioning. The winglet on the top of th📖e Halo will be removed in some configurations. The airflow around the Halo influences the downstream areas of the car including the rear wing, making removing it rel🌼evant in certain circumstances.
Sauber
Floor Fences - Per💫for🌱mance – Flow Conditioning An additional, alternative trim of the floor fences. The different trim of the floor fences further optimises the flow of air in this crucial area of the car, improving the overall flow and aero efficiency of the packages.
Haas
Floor Body - Performance - Local Load Modification of the exp🍬ansion with this new floor. The different expansion increa🌜ses the floor suction and therefore the underfloor mass-flow, resulting in overall more load coming from the floor.
Floor Fences - Performance - Flow Conditioning Alignment of the floor fences. The new floor geometry requires a different alignment of the front floor fences, as the direction of the incoming floor changes 🥃with the floor expansion.
Floor Edge - Performance - Local Load The new floor body required a modification of the floor edge as well. The new floor body has a different expansion and therefore requires an adaptation of the floor edge wing, which is now more coherent with floor body and is able to extract more flow, res🦩ulting in a local load increase.
Sidepod Inlet - Performance - Flow Conditioning Updated Inlet geometry, now with a🐻 longer higher lip. This geometry allows to deliver a cleaner floe to the rear end of the car, resulting in an overall performance increase.
Coke/Engine Cover - Performance - Flow Conditioning. The updated Inlet geometry required a mino🐓r revision of the sidepod. The new Sidepod Inlet geometry required changes that protrude quite backwards on the sidepod, which was therefore updated accordingly. The new sidepod is now able to accommodate😼 some top cooling gills as well.
Mirror Stay - Performance - Flow Conditioning. The new Si𒊎depod Inlet required a new rear stay of the mirror. The updated rear stay of the mirror has changed position and was optimized to condi꧃tion the top sidepod flow in order to increase the load of the rear end of the car.
Rear Corner - Performance - Local Load Different position and trim of the lower quadruplane (FIA geometry) The ne💖w floor required to optimize the flow around the rear tyres as well.
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