Maybe they're planning larger scale updates, which is easier to do when you're on the front. Why waste budget on smaller stuff?
Plus they seemed to be best at higher speed turns anyway.
Maybe they're planning larger scale updates, which is easier to do when you're on the front. Why waste budget on smaller stuff?
But also: "Still inconclusive if the Ferrari is split turbo or not. "GrrG wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022, 14:46Scarbs split turbo
https://i.imgur.com/l1g1sKo.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOnZZ6IWQAQ ... name=large
Entirety? People are still arguing whether it's split turbo or not.
This is the thing.... Even in scarbs sketches the intake elbow to conpressor is extremely tight. Mercedes and Honda had this and change to bigger sweeping elbows here to reduce flow losses.
last season higher downforce cars would still run less wing but their downforce level still higher than the 2022 cars so seeing just a slight reduction in wing downforce setting for jeddah on a 2022 set up can be expected....
This works if you have a way faster car then 80% of the cars out there and you still easily get a podium. With a thighter field it really changes that equationVanja #66 wrote: ↑23 Mar 2022, 21:44Bit off topic, but I would push these engines as far as I have to within expected reliability. If you earn 2 full PU penalties and have the best PU, like Ferrari might have, you can realistically do the Ham-Brasil-21. Even a podium would be a great result. With these cars and race-friendly aero, my feeling for the best season-long strategy is to push like hell. Every race.Hoffman900 wrote: ↑23 Mar 2022, 15:40This. These regulations mean we’ll never see them all in except for very rare occasions, and thus looking at trap speeds will always be misleading of true potential because it only has to be turned up ‘just enough’.
Pfff, true... Hard to say. Maybe they had two specs aready, or they now tilt the entire thing (with endplates) to change the angle... This photo should be from the race, the silhouette looks bigger, i.e. the angle looks bigger, maybe even camber.wowgr8 wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022, 17:58Looks the same as Bahrain to me
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FODVAUPWYAE ... name=large
Well, is the field really that tighter? Especially when you have a brand new PU, while those ahead have at least 5-6 races old PU components, some components even more...Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022, 20:00This works if you have a way faster car then 80% of the cars out there and you still easily get a podium. With a thighter field it really changes that equation
If it is split turbo, I was trying to make sense of why the airbox is so far back. Also, why there seems to be no plenum elbow ahead of the engine, where you might expect the compressor inlet to be. Maybe they've flipped the compressor around. They have many seasons of experience running the inlet over the compressor shaft.
Yeah probably not any closer this year, but they didn't know that before the first race. Maybe first race they ran conservative and maybe they'll adapt as they go. Maybe using the same rear wing on a lower downforce track will come with a more aggressive map this race.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022, 20:29Well, is the field really that tighter? Especially when you have a brand new PU, while those ahead have at least 5-6 races old PU components, some components even more...Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022, 20:00This works if you have a way faster car then 80% of the cars out there and you still easily get a podium. With a thighter field it really changes that equation
Well, forget “entirety” as I was exaggerating obviously. Let’s say that they’re much more relaxed about showing it the way they are. Would have not been the case in the past. But as has been pointed out by the users who have answered me, most parts of the PU are frozen already.
The thing is, since it was testing they didn't need to fully optimize the car for Barcelona.