Secrets Of Newey's Exhausts

Newey and Vettel

Adrian Newey.

One of F1's greatest designers, and also the man Lawrence Stroll has paid half the value of his "new factory" (~$100 million) to build a green dumpster driven by a rookie (Alonso, obviously) and douchey Latifi (Stroll).

He also, at one point, was the reason for Sebastian Vettel winning 2 back to back championships, coming in similar dominant fashion to Hamilton for the past 100000000 years, taking 11/19 wins, and 17 podiums in just a single year.

But how did new use his big, beautiful brain to come up with something so insane, he had a -0.444% gap the same year, and -0.138% gap in the previous gap (huge in F1 terms)?

(Shown Above) Vettel cooks literally everyone in Germany, 2011, colorized

Well, he pulled out a good old Newey trick, utilizing it whenever the FIA weren't giving penalties for literally breathing the wrong way or banning literally everything innovative - the blown diffuser.

So how does this mysterious device actually work?

Well, first we must understand the working of a regular diffuser:

The bread and butter of all F1 cars - the diffuser

Using the fast flowing air under the car, and the Bernoulli effect (faster flowing air has a lower pressure), a "vacuum" of sorts is created, and the car is sucked to the ground.

Of course, to those who think this is explanation is too simple, you are welcome to ask away in the comments and I will be sure to get to your question.

However, if we use the even faster flowing exhaust gases, and push them through the diffuser, you get even more downforec in the rear, and this leads the drivers to get on and off the throttle to produce massive downforce, as they wished.

(Shown Above) The bane of literally the whole 2011 grid

Newey also use this concept to different effect in different cars, and different drivers actaully adapted their driving style to match this, such as:

• Nigel Mansell

• Vettel

• Hakkinen

• Raikkonen

• Alonso

Thought they do get more complicated then this, stay tuned for the next blog for more on these insane F1 innovations!

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-Kartik Sharma