We are being told to expect new parts on the car for its first tests. I presume the aim if this were the case, would be to pull airflow from under the nose to create some front downforce and speed the flow up back towards the diffuser. Either above the gearbox or increasingly rumoured the exhaust routes forward and exits in front of the sidepods. This leaves few reasonable option for the pipes location. I understand the exhaust does not exit at the rear of the car. Starting narrow and sweeping out to the maximum width, the diffuser is complemented by several fences.Īmongst all of this detail no exhaust pipe is apparent, This is clearly one of LRGPs trump cards. Compared to the simplistic Ferrari diffuser, the Renault under tray is far more developed. It appears as though the differential is lower this year, although Allison couldn’t confirm this. Around this area the Titanium of the gearbox is exposed to the airflow. Curiously LRGP have not used a rear wing mounting pylon, the exposed beam wing, sits on two supports to mount to the rear crash structure. For the wing endplates, LRGP appear to have followed a red Bull solution by joining the endplate to the top of the diffuser. A simple tall cooling exit vents at the end of the tail, with in this is the oil cooler fed by the F-duct-like inlets aside the airbox.

This low line effect is further accentuated by the move to Pull Rod rear suspension, the engine cover being wider at the bottom and very low around the gearbox. Their unusual tapered exit, created a wide low duct exiting across the top of the diffuser. The lowline rear end features downward tapered sidepodsĪlthough small cooling outlets next to the cockpit are evident, there were no other apertures made into the sidepods at all.

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