clownfish wrote: ↑16 Sep 2022, 14:07
Can anyone offer any thoughts on the car's tyre behaviours in terms of difficulty getting temperature in/having low deg?
I wondered if maybe they are running higher pressures in an attempt to eliminate the undamped spring effect from the tyres to help control porpoising, and therefore putting less heat in as a side effect.
I don't believe they have difficulty to get temp in the tyres, otherwise they wouldn't get the hard tyres to work so easily in Zandvoort for instance. From the outlap on they were quick in that stint.
There are two forms of deg. Wear, the most obvious, but also thermal deg. The latter is the change in chemical composition of the rubber due too long or over exposure to (too) high temps. I believe the Mercedes is very good at the latter, which means they are good in controlling tyre core temps on long stints.
Getting temp in the tyres initially and keeping the core temps under control are not necessarily connected as one has mostly to do with surface temps and the other with core temps.
This also indicated that the suspension of the Mercedes is not the issue this year. On the contrary, I believe it is their strongest point.