This part was on the Alpine too during pre-season testing.BlueCheetah66 wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023, 15:52The designers at AM really do love to play around with fillet rules. First ones to design the T tray wing and now this.
This part was on the Alpine too during pre-season testing.BlueCheetah66 wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023, 15:52The designers at AM really do love to play around with fillet rules. First ones to design the T tray wing and now this.
There’s certainly quite a bit of reverse engineering of the telemetry that Mercedes would be able to do with regards the AM’a downforce and drag numbers thanks to sharing the PU, gearbox, and suspension, but it is what it is.
There are only so many ways to do the job with the same tools starting from a similar position and aiming at a particular result. The odds are that the outcome will be very similar, especially if the person doing the job has seen a version of it that fits his 'picture' of the solution, deliberately or not.
Would the same solutions work with a very different aero balance/map? Probably not.
Mercedes isn't "looking" at Aston Martin's suspension data. They are just supplying parts. None of the telemetry is going back to Mercedes, beyond the embedded PU customer support staff.Sevach wrote: ↑06 Mar 2023, 04:47Would the same solutions work with a very different aero balance/map? Probably not.
Suspensions in F1 are setup to maximize aero, with a few possible exceptions like the setup teams run in Monaco.
Can Mercedes deduce how much downforce Aston has by looking at their suspension data? I think so, but in end Mercedes still has to reach those numbers with their surfaces and floor.
I posted this in the team thread as it had no technical merit toward the AMR23.Holm86 wrote: ↑07 Mar 2023, 20:52Not sure if this had been posted, but it's a cool little video
https://youtu.be/G49q1D0GrTU
Is this similar to Red Bull in that the tunnels appear far more rounded all over and wide as well as low?