It’ll be interesting to see if they give up on their no-pod design at Barcelona. Mercedes was quickest in testing in Barcelona with a more traditional sidepod, but may have already seen the depths of their problems, or never would have switched to the no-pod design, imo. That means they may have been sandbagging the least of any team in the final day.
I believe that Bahrain is the only circuit with a race so far that has the same layout as the pre-2022 regulations. LEC qualified 1.76% slower in 2022 than VER in 2021, but HAM’s fastest lap in testing in 2022 was a second slower than the 2021 Q3 lap + 1.76%. Maybe it’s futile to try to compare testing to Q3 from the prior year, but Mercedes could go back to more traditional sidepod given their performance at testing, all the data they have from testing and everything they have learned about the car since then
siskue2005 wrote: ↑13 Apr 2022, 20:36
silver wrote: ↑13 Apr 2022, 20:33
siskue2005 wrote: ↑13 Apr 2022, 20:29
Ok, that was said by Toto
I was looking for George's comments
Did you read the article?
Ok
So it sounds like major major upgrade is coming to Barcelona, which IMO is the best way to tackle this