So, new thread, because it neither fit's in the cars thread, nor the car comparison thread nor the Team thread.
(Or maybe it does, then please move this post (-: )
To start the discussion, a small rant by me (Don't take it to seriously) (:
What I want this thread to be, is a comparison of all the Mercedes powered cars (and to a lesser extent teams). So McLaren, Williams, Aston Martin and Mercedes.
What's their performance now, were are they comming from, what's their cars concept, from which concept do they come?
And what's their performance and their progress (to different things!)
When I'm looking into this forum (also in other media) I see a lot of statements along the lines: Mercedes car is not working at all and they got their concept completly wrong. This suprises me, because they are not that much slower than Aston Martin and much faster than McLaren and Williams.
In fair assesment in the performance/progress categories for me would be: Mercedes progress is low, maybe they just got the loss from rule changes back, but their performance general is still more or less on the same level as Aston Martins. The impressive thing is to me, the step Aston did, so their performance considering where their coming from.
So AM progress great, Mercedes progress not so much. Performance, both pretty much the same, AM slightly faster.
Basically the same for McLaren and Willimas. I'm in interested in your opinion on the performance/progress of these to teams. And McLaren vs Aston Martin, since they were on the same level last year.
I feel like people are coming from the first hybrid era, where Mercedes was dominating everything and think or expect, this is somehow the natural order. Mercedes should just be better than everybody else. So Mercedes not 0.5s faster than the rest, means something went wrong.
A theory by me is they just outspend everybody in that era and while developing the first hybrid power trains? If you got information or an opinion on that, please share (:
If that is true, I further would say, compared to Ferrari and RedBull, Mercedes didn't adapt to the cost cap as well as these two teams. Distinguish between what's important and what not, and set the teams structure up in a way that it can do these important things as good as possible.