You assume they haven't ball parked this through CFD?chrisc90 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 01:33Id say taking a grinder to your front wing is showing a sign of desperation and you dont know whats happening with the initial part of your setup which affects the rest of the air flow across the car.
I cant see any valid reason for doing such a thing, without having CFD/airflow data to back up what your doing.
The chances of it are pretty slim id imagine.MadMax wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 01:34You assume they haven't ball parked this through CFD?chrisc90 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 01:33Id say taking a grinder to your front wing is showing a sign of desperation and you dont know whats happening with the initial part of your setup which affects the rest of the air flow across the car.
I cant see any valid reason for doing such a thing, without having CFD/airflow data to back up what your doing.
Heck, they may have eaten a sandwich or two whilst considering it.
Back in the day when teams had a lot revenue than they did now stuff like this was common.chrisc90 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 01:33Id say taking a grinder to your front wing is showing a sign of desperation and you dont know whats happening with the initial part of your setup which affects the rest of the air flow across the car.
I cant see any valid reason for doing such a thing, without having CFD/airflow data to back up what your doing.
On FP1:Mercedes expected to be in strong form in Mexico and were not disappointed. "That was our best Friday of the year," said a happy Russell, setting himself high goals: "We should be able to get a podium here." Hamilton also exuded optimism: "The more we understand the car, the better it feels." Marko judged from afar: "I'm afraid Mercedes could become an opponent for us here."
Lewis Hamilton had to wait until 13 minutes before the end before his Mercedes was finally able to drive. Before that, it stood in the garage for a long time due to cooling problems. Those have now been resolved. Mercedes was a bit too optimistic when calculating the cooling.
I'd think the FP2 time is part of it. There was track evolution of course, but they are able to put that into perspective. Setting a 1s quicker lap time is a lot, and miles ahead of the level Alpha Tauri and Alpine improved (or not) from FP1 to FP2.
Its seems right if the other cars are draggier than the RedBull. The energy required goes up dramatically with the square of drag.atanatizante wrote: ↑28 Oct 2022, 14:11How reliable is HAM`s comment in Ted Kravitz's official interview before the Mexico race saying that Honda now has almost 100% deployment over the entire lap compared to Merc and other manufacturers which have only 70 to 80%?
Another question is regarding how the F1 teams can figure out how much deployment the PU from another manufacturer has over an entire lap. I mean which are the methods to determine that fact ...
