organic wrote: ↑25 Jul 2022, 01:40Yeah they need more front end, like most teams. But it needs to be brought in a way that's efficient, cheap and realistic. Front wing upgrades are expensive & in the new rule regs the FW is fairly prescribed so not many avenues to gain tons of laptime there I think. The area for development to alter the balance is undoubtedly the floor which Alpine has been developing.
Earlier in the year they asked Fry about that. His response was "Upgrading the wing costs more than the floor to upgrade and get us a 10th of a second. Upgrading the floor will get us half a second or more". I suspect the front wing's importance to the overall DF of the car has changed along with the regs. Since the floor is where you're creating most of the DF and the teams are very limited in what they can do with the front wing, Most teams are just running the front wing above the height of the front of the floor to keep it from stealing air and creating turbulence to the floor. In past years the aero all started with the front wing as it was a big part of the out-wash, that isn't the case any more.
One of the things that came up on Sky sports today was that RBR had noticed that Ferrari was going off the gas sooner in the front limited high speed curves and then getting on the gas early. They used the rear DF to power out of the corner quickly. Turning a front limited corner into a rear limited. No easy thing to do, might be why LeClerc screwed up on execution.