Under the skin of the front-running 2015 F1 cars

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FERRARI: A COMPACT EXHAUST MANIFOLD

Last year’s F14 T had very long exhaust pipes that went upward and wrap around the internal combustion engine. Its successor features shorter and tighter ducts (compare both designs in red) that remain close to the car’s underbody and reach the turbine from below. The latter has been lowered while the wastegate has been moved somewhere else.

The SF15-T’s coolers are more horizontal and equipped with a clever louvre system that helps better direct the airflow, both on entry and exit of the radiators (click here for more details).