F1 News: Mercedes Upgrades For Monaco Grand Prix Revealed In Full

Here's your full rundown of the upgrades Mercedes is bringing to the Monaco Grand Prix.

The F1 world is on fire with excitement about Mercedes' upgrades for this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix. As usual, these upgrades were revealed to the FIA who have since defined and described them in an official release. This is what we now know following this.

The Brackley team has brought 6 changes to their W14 this weekend, with the main three consisting of the front suspension, floor fences, and sidepod inlet. We've already seen plenty about these and have given a full breakdown of the suspension. The addition of the sidepod has also been covered, but now we get to understand the changes from the FIA's point of view.

Front Suspension

Primary Reason for update: Performance and flow conditioning. 

Geometric differences: Top wishbone forward leg inbound pick-up lifted.

Change results in improved positioning of the wishbone wake, which in turn improves onset flow into the sidepod improving cooling performance. 

Floor Fences

Primary Reason for update: Performance and local load.

Geometric differences: Change in fence camber.

Change in fence camber results in increased local load and improved flow to the diffuser and hence more rear load.

Sidepot Inlet

Primary Reason for update: Performance and flow conditioning.

Geometric differences: Wide and high sidepod inlet.

Improve flow to the floor edge, which results in more floor load and also improved flow to the rear corner.

Coke/Engine Cover

Primary Reason for update: Performance and flow conditioning.

Geometric differences: Wide bodywork

The increased bodywork width increases local downforce and also improves the flow to the rear wing assembly and rear corner.

Rear Wing

Primary Reason for update: Performance and local load.

Geometric differences: Increased camber rear wing flap.

Increased flap camber results in increased rear wing load, which in turn drops the pressure behind the car increasing rear floor load.

Rear Corner

Primary Reason for update: Performance and local load.

Geometric differences: Second cascade of caketin winglets added

The additional winglet array adds local winglet load, and also drops the pressure behind the lower suspension legs increasing local load on these too.