Wow, this is getting blown out of proportion. I'm not accusing anyone of not being ready although it was mentioned by someone else in the thread.basti313 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2022, 13:48Yes, I am talking about these as well.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑01 Mar 2022, 12:52I was talking specifically about the kiel probes that Mercedes seem to have all over the car and which others seem to have few, if any, of.basti313 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2022, 11:10
??? I am surprised by this conclusion. I saw tape on every car. The McLaren or the RedBull were plastered with Al tape on the floor. Below they have strain or pressure sensors in testing.
That other teams take another approach does not mean they do not have sensors.Especially on the RedBull you could see a big bulge of sensor wires in the lower sidepod during testing.
Why Merc is using these and others are doing more indirect measurements with strain sensors for example I do not know. But I can not see where you would put of the discussion on "prepared" or "not ready" or where you can make a conclusion on what they try to measure there. Integrating the strain sensors well into the floor needs to planned well ahead as well.
Maybe it is simply buried in the concept that Merc needs to know the flow more accurate, where others have downwash and do not care so much about this flow.
The other point of course is, that the other teams may run the strain sensors in the floor also in the coming races. They just add the wiring for FP1 and 2 and throw it out after Friday. The bigger sensors Merc uses disturb more and I think it is not so easy to remove them.
It's not a bash at any other team or me saying "yay, Mercedes are the best because they're doing this", it was simply an observation that they are using a lot of these particular sensors and I was surprised that others aren't using them to the same extent.
So, sorry if you think this was an attack on a team you support - it wasn't. It was a general observation about what Mercedes are doing compared to what others are doing.