In addition to the extensive updates introduced by Force India at Silverstone, the team made some further changes ahead of the Hockenheim race. One of these revisions concerned the assembly of the winglets placed in front of the car's sidepods (see arrows). Instead of being connected to the sidepod...
Over the course of the German race weekend Williams adopted two separate solutions to the rearmost flap of the FW30's front wing. One change featured a narrower flap (bottom image, red arrow), while the other boasted a wider flap with a steeper profile towards its centre (top image, red arrow)....
In Germany Ferrari have become the latest team to adopt a vertical fin (see blue arrow and inset) to connect the winglets placed in front of the sidepods with the rearmost edge of the car's barge boards. Also introduced by Honda here at Hockenheim, the fins decrease the vibrations of the sidepod...
Like Honda, BMW Sauber have introduced in Germany a couple of horizontal rectangular winglets on the top edge of the F1.08's chassis (red arrow) just in front of the cockpit. These work in conjunction with BMW's distinctive delta winglets further down the nosecone. The air passing over the car from...
One a number of changes within a revised aero package that Williams tested at Hockenheim last week in preparation for the German Grand Prix is these updated flip-ups in front of the rear wheels. The vertical endplate is reduced in surface area and under the main flip-up there is now an additional...
Honda have introduced a revised aero package in Germany. A curved vertical fin (red circle) now connects the boomerang-shaped winglet in front of the sidepods to the rearmost edge of the barge board. This solution is not dissimilar to one introduced by BMW Sauber at the start of the season and has...
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