Vanja #66 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2023, 17:52
Stiffer tyres don't change the fact these floors are much more sensitive to ride height changes then any in the last 40 years. It doesn't change the fact Ferrari didn't do a good job with their 2023 suspension and its compatibility with aerodynamic behaviour...
And the not-good-enough job on suspension doesn't change the fact the car is capable of producing suficient downforce, but not yet able to transmit the downforce to tyre contact patches in the best way possible.
Why skirt around the fact the floor is just not versatile?
The 40 year comment is not relatable. The ride sensitivity will also include fuel burn and basic downforce increase with speed. Those two factors are more drastic than tyre diameter. So again maybe the floor is just not good enough.
It cannot be that the floor is well designed if half a millimeter throws it off. Those sidewalls wont move 2mm between outlap and two sectors purely from temperature increase.
The teams do expect the floor to be moving across a wide range of heights, especially with fuel load burning off.
It's my hunch, the suspension is not wholly to blame; if at all.
I do not know much about it to say it's a big problem or not, but maybe they need to redesign the floor more than the suspension.
Now as for the Newey comment. Yes better suspension can maximize the floor staying stable at a sweet spot range to produce more load. This is a different argument for overheating tyres. Reason being the car seems to work well when pushed for 1 lap on low fuel. So the suspension seems to be fine in this sense.
When the car has to be fueled for the race, we start to see the narrow window the floor works in as fuel load changes.
The two, suspension and floor are related indeed, but the onus is on the floor.