Ferrari accomplished an FIA take a look at final Thursday at Fiorano to trial the second try at introducing spray guards to cowl the wheels within the moist, in a bid to cut back the quantity of spray thrown up that decreases visibility.
As a part of the take a look at, Ferrari’s Fiorano take a look at observe was made moist on the straights and Charles Leclerc’s brother Arthur was despatched out with the brand new designs, which might be modified to be both totally enclosed or function holes.
Ferrari reserve driver Bearman was despatched out behind Leclerc to pattern simply how a lot better the visibility was in comparison with customary, uncovered wheels.
Talking at Imola’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the place the Briton will participate in Friday apply for Haas, Bearman stated it is “again to the drafting board” for the FIA as the brand new designs did not make sufficient of a distinction.
“I adopted Arthur Leclerc who was operating with the wheel covers,” Bearman stated when quizzed in regards to the take a look at by Motorsport.com.
“Thus far, not likely a lot to say about them. I believe you noticed the movies, it was fairly comparable. So I believe again to the drafting board, we have to maintain taking a look at it.
“We did a number of completely different configurations, however we solely moist the straights simply to see should you might comply with on the straights.
“We did 4 or 5 runs simply attempting completely different ranges of openness, as a result of if it is totally closed, it is also fairly robust for the temperatures of the tyres.”
Bearman felt the present spec of F1 vehicles’ heavy reliance on downforce generated from the ground, utilizing the bottom impact, made it more durable to mitigate spray.
“I believe the difficulty is that these vehicles make a lot downforce from the ground, the air is energised from there and naturally the spray follows the air,” he defined.
“The visibility was nonetheless fairly robust on the market. It was barely higher for certain, the work has gone into one thing, nevertheless it’s not fastened.”
The Fiorano design was a extra aggressive tackle a design that was trialled at Silverstone final yr with restricted success.
