The American owned outfit never tried to hide the fact that the livery renders it released were anything other than from an early stage of development, so it was no surprise that what appeared at its Barcelona filming day is very different.
The front wing and nose are a more developed variant of the one seen from the launch, with the detached mainplane set ahead of the wide stub-style nose to help drive flow beneath the body, which has been narrowed in its cross section on its underside to help too (blue arrow).
Haas VF-22 details
Photo by: Haas F1 Team
The front wing flaps aren’t as shapely as the renders, with a more purposeful design employed across their span.
This results in the adjustable section in the middle of the two upper flaps providing a notable division with the section that meets with the nose, as the angular and triangular separator (green arrow) will undoubtedly propagate a vortex and power the airflow downstream.
The front wing endplate is also different from…
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