Zynerji wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 22:15
PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 22:04
Zynerji wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 20:19
They are ALL guinea pigs. It's a prototype series.
Some just perform under pressure better than others.
Guinea pig means someone who is experimented on.
Lewis has been trying experimental (unproven, unorthodox) setups up until now and he doesn't want to do that anymore.
Unorthodox for whom?
And in what manner?
They ran with different rear wings in Montreal, but I didn’t see any images of each from the rear, so there could have been different beam wing set-ups as well.
The ‘apparently’ very limited suspension movement/adjustment of the W13 is a worry (it really constrains the mechanical solutions to both porpoising and bouncing - if the two are unlinked); it is almost as though there is an over-reliance on design tools (that are themselves reliant on accurate coding and input data).
I have my doubts over the ‘stub’ winglets covering the upper SIS; they are required to have an open section (meaning that they are not a pure aerofoil) which is intrinsically draggy, I could see some sense in it IF it was utilised as a part of the cooling extraction (it would/could be used to create an air curtain to control front tyre wake - think Dyson air blade). However the surfaces/sections rules mean that this is not possible without having the ducting required built int the chassis structure.
What is worth bearing in mind is that for all of the talk of ‘huge’ gaps to the front of the grid, the percentage difference between a 90 second lap-time & a 90.7 second lap-time is tiny (0.7777777778%), so the car is far from being fundamentally poor; it is just a slightly less good interpretation of the rules.
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