Agree.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 19:33With so many different tracks, the chassis has shown it works brilliantly everywhere. Sidepods indeed cause no problems with drag (quite contrary, as we've shown here before), the 5-6 km/h top speed difference in Baku is mostly down to RB removing upper beam wing I would guess.
A total of 4 different rear wings are used and the car is always so well ballanced, this shows the engineers did nothing short of a perfect job chassis-wise, both regarding aero and suspension and how the two work together. I don't think the team produced a better chassis (relative to the field) in the last 15 years, maybe even since 2004.
I would like to add that, in terms of speed gain on straights, I think SF should focus on the front wing as well. Observing the on board cameras it is evident that the third element of the RB front wing, the highest one, is divided into two sections. The first of these sections, the one attached to the nose, is very short, leaving the second free to flex as speed increases.
The "third element" of SF is also divided in two parts, but with the first section much longer. The floating part, so to speak, being shorter, it lowers much less in the straights, creating more drag.
Someone much better than me in this matter could post some pictures or explanatory videos.
It seems however, and not from today, that RB has a considerable advantage in the use of "elastic" and rigid (stiff) materials at the same time. Otherwise it would not be explained how they manage to pass all the load tests when the car is stationary.