Fair play or foolish play? I don't like it, I prefer the RBR way in this matter.
Looks like some sort of sea monster that lurks in the depths waiting for unsuspecting Nimo to swim by.
It would be a disaster with the budget cap to make a 2019 winter testing. It will affect the resources for developing the 2022 car those for the 2023 car if they waste time and resources to bring a B-version in 2022. The car has to be dominant and switch earlier than Red Bull on the next year car.Neuron wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 13:41Two options:DarthPlagueisTheVise wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 13:35I am honestly puzzled as to why merc are releasing so much footage of the new car. They could have just done the launch with the show car and then do a shakedown like RB
1. They are veeeery confident
2. Final car will be totally different
21:18: "Now after reading the rules I genuinely don't understand how is this legal."
Is that the guy that thinks the small lump on the inside of the head restraints is an aero device (it isn't, it's for the drivers to lean their head against), and the metal bar creating the lifting point below the roll hoop is an aero rake (it isn't)? That expert?
The teams all run their designs by the FIA so they're likely to be sure it's legal.Stu wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 12:43I’m not sure that we are seeing the final product here, there looks to be something draped over the floor in front of the pressure measuring tubes.
It could be the start of ‘the phoney war’ for 2022; getting other teams to waste their (restricted) CFD runs on investigation of how it works.
Depending on how you read the rules around double curvature in the floor, there is the potential for it not to be legal. There is no floor edge wing either, and that has the potential to be very powerful.
Mercedes also have a relatively sharp rear shoulder on the sidepod below that strake. The whole shape of the sidepod will be predicated on the way the strake functions. Teams would likely need to copy the sidepod design to really benefit.HungarianRacer wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 12:30Question is, how useful will that be for other teams? For this Merc, it seems to work well in concert with the relatively tall, concave, outward-cambered sidepod wall, a random, relatively shallow turning vane around that area wouldn't be that useful for teams with completely different sidepod shapes I'd imagine...siskue2005 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 11:17Yes, it looks like the mirror support and wavy floor is within rules and easy to copy according to ex F1 aerodynamics
Kyle.engineers comments that the front and rear wings are among the most cranked we’ve seen so far. Given they’re relatively ‘inefficient’ aero surfaces compared to, for example, the underfloor and diffuser, does this suggest they’ve struggled to extract the downforce there and need it from the wings instead?pantherxxx wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 14:4121:18: "Now after reading the rules I genuinely don't understand how is this legal."
That's exactly what I think about this floor.
With the new regs, the more downforce available probably allows for the most leeway with set up; easier to trim some off than not have enough.JPBD1990 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 15:27Kyle.engineers comments that the front and rear wings are among the most cranked we’ve seen so far. Given they’re relatively ‘inefficient’ aero surfaces compared to, for example, the underfloor and diffuser, does this suggest they’ve struggled to extract the downforce there and need it from the wings instead?
Or are they just doing a ‘downforce at all costs’ type approach…
My understanding of the "filming days" is for the teams own marketing, why do you think there is an obligation to release the footage to the public?cooken wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 14:14Doesn't all this on track running fall under the filming day rules? Hence would they be required to release all the footage, or at least some of it, to the public?
Still very possible (likely) that a lot of the aero features are several design iterations old, or just very early conceptual things they want to get correlation with before committing further developments.