cplchanb wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022, 21:15
Are you expecting ferrari to publically say that they screwed the pooch with a missed opportunity and that the merc concept is already superior to theirs??!
This line of questioning from whoever asked it was always going to produce the expected answer.
In my view, it makes a lot of sense to hear Ferrari tried developing this nano-pod design, they were minimizing sidepods consistently from 2017-2021. It also makes a lot of sense they opted for something different if it showed greater potential - something completely different in this case.
To improve the aerodynamic floor performance with any given floor design you have to get more air to the rear wing and then to the beam wing, in that order. Getting more air on top of the diffuser is tertiary. Rear wing creates more suction and will help beam wing as a secondary effect as well. To that end, I'd never go Mercedes direction and start putting stuff higher, clogging up the flow ahead of rear wing. But that's just me...
And then we have the effect of wide sidepods punching a hole through the air for those big fat rear tyres...
AR3-GP wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 05:34
Look at the twitter thread above your post. The Ferrari has longer gears. For a given wheel velocity, the Ferrari will be at a lower RPM.
The better way to look (imo) is to look at the actual wheel speed (velocity), not RPM. From there its apparent Merc might be turned down.
That post above mentions RB and Merc, not Ferrari. All we have is terminal velocities and there are a dozen reasons why Ferrari is faster and only one of them is Merc being turned down. Let's not read too much into unofficial graphs...