Andi76 wrote: ↑10 Jun 2022, 23:26
Like i said - Barcelona is a well known track. As one of the two or three best teams Mercedes knows exactly what to do there, thats the reason why they were so good there.
This is the case for every team, which cancels it out.
When the zero-pod concept is such a great concept - why did they have problems on any other track?
This can be due to a variety of things.
This argumentation is also incredibly flawed when you consider that they released the big update in Barcelona. So you have exactly one reference to draw your conclusion, and this conclusion even contradicts what actually happened.
You conclude that the zeropod design is flawed, yet at THE aero-dependent track on the calendar, the car has performed best thus far. It doesn't really take much to realize how that makes no sense. If the zeropod was flawed and the cause of all problems, they would have fared worse at Barcelona.
And why got all the teams with similar concepts got worse and all teams with other concepts did improve?
Is that actually the case to begin with?
And why do all the micro/zeropod concept cars have drag problems?
How can you ever conclude that to begin with? Apart from "drag problems" not really being a thing in F1 due to the power these cars have and it being a downforce-dominated formula, there is little evidence to suggest it being the case.