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Mercedes seeks cooling through shark fin chimney
Mercedes promised it would try numerous engine cover solutions during testing, having presented the W08 with a normal cover and T-Wing at the launch. No one expected that the tests would come so thick and fast though, with the team resorting to various solutions as it ran through it planned schedule on day one, putting in 79 laps with Bottas and 73 with Hamilton. Here is the Mercedes running a relatively short shark fin configuration in combination with the T-Wing, as we can see the team is not only looking to use the shark fin to clean up flow to the rear wing but also as a cooling aperture, with hot air created by the power unit vented out of the large chimney atop the fin. In doing so it...
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