Willem Toet claimed rake wasn’t about trying to create more floor df but a balance thing.Farnborough wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 22:26Try looking at all plan view of mercedes F1 since Brawn year, the concept hasn't really changed.AR3-GP wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 22:18It's funny seeing these pictures. The W14 is very similar in it's shape in the mid-section to the pre-2019 RB/Merc formula cars.vorticism wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 21:58It should generate something like a Y250 vortex, just higher up, further back and smaller. The RB14/15/16 had a downwashing wing in the same area. Maybe the W14 version is more aggressive. All teams currently use sidepod downwash/outwash generating sidepod vortex generators. Question is, what does a larger one offer to the W14?
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Notably they've always avoided rake (they've all got to effectively work with it now in the tunnel angle underfloor) Wolf even joked about the RB "driving around doing a handstand" while that raked floor concept was building experience over in RB design direction.
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