According to rumours filtering in from Marenello, the team could return to a triangular shaped airbox, without the two horns that set the SF21 apart from the rest last season.
It’s understood that the team wants to move away from the oval airbox design it appropriated last season in order to provide less obstruction to the airflow destined for the rear wing.
This does mean that the Scuderia’s designers will have to find a way to provide cool air to the power unit and its ancillaries, which was catered for by the outer channels in the oval airbox design.
However, with the shape of the sidepods having to undergo an extensive redesign for 2022 it may have opted to repackage the various radiators and electronics housed around the power unit and in the sidepods.
Ferrari SF21 airbox detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
Ferrari SF70H side detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
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