I think Toto was genuinely honest in his assessment. They do not know how to fix this (yet), so they are not purposely holding something back.adrianjordan wrote: ↑26 Apr 2022, 10:28Someone may have mentioned this already, but if they did I couldn't spot it for all the people screaming and flapping because they think the ship is sinking.
Does anyone else think that Merc have realised they're too far behind at this point to be in title contention and are holding back on upgrade until they have a lot more data and a proper understanding of the porpoising problem? The side effect of this being that they will, as a result of being lower down the table, then have more resource allowance in the second half of the season to work hard on the W14?
Correlation issues are difficult. It means you are not able to validate a fix other than in real use. Being blind design-wise you can only fall back to a last known working baseline (of which there is none since the regs changed) or copy a working design of a competitor (lot of work due to the difference in layout and tricky since the other cars are marginal on the same issue).
This weekend there was no time to test anything. I can see them bringing some test items in Miami, but just to validate the models. If successful they can select a direction for a bigger upgrade.