Exclusive pictures of the Ferrari power unit

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A LESS TWISTY DESIGN

Last year’s 059/3 had a very long manifold, that would climb upwards along the ICE and wrap around it.

The new-for-2015 pipework is shorter, more compact, and less twisty. Thus, it can feed more power to the internal combustion engine, while also making the turbine work more efficiently. The latter can produce more energy, which in turn benefits the MGU-H. The tubes sit closer to the car’s floor, reaching the turbine from below. Said turbine seems to have been lowered, while the wastegates installation is also different from last year.

Also worth noticing are the yellow-sealed ducts used to feed cooling air to the engine. Water circulation inside the engine was one of the first examples of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) application. This is due to a high degree of correlation between simulation and reality, as the liquid is flowing in a closed circuit (CFD applications on aerodynamics are a very different story).