Audi’s radically different sidepods
Several of you have inquired about Audi’s new sidepods.
New parts were expected for the Bahrain tests – and the team has turned up with radically different sidepods for the opening day of running at Sakhir.
After running with conventional inlets at the Barcelona shakedown, Audi has switched to a design with more verticality, allowing it to be narrower overall.
This has allowed engineers to sculpt the sidepods’ leading edge, shrink-wrapping it around the side impact structures and also creating a channel over the top.
The premise here is to reduce the length of the airflow’s path to the rear to ensure it retains energy.
Audi sidepod comparison