During the final week of testing, Ferrari's new rear wing featuring a 270° rotary flap made its appearance. An innovative solution that no other team had thought of yet.
Ferrari's new mobile wing works the other way around
The wing should offer a sensitive, though currently unquantifiable, aerodynamic advantage. Why? Simply because he works backwards. The lower edge of the movable flap, instead of remaining at the bottom as in all the solutions presented by the other teams, rotating by 270° ends up rising upwards.
In doing so the flap works in reverse and instead of generating a downward component, at least in theory, it contributes to the formation of a force that tends to lift the rear wing upwards.
Obviously this contributes to having a lighter rear end on the straight, with the resulting speed advantages. Initial hypotheses circulating in the paddock speak of a gain of around 8 km/h, but at the moment we believe we are not providing any data on this matter. The advantage may be tangible, but how much cannot yet be established with certainty.
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Read also in italian language: L'ala posteriore rotativa della Ferrari lavora al contrario
