Ferrari brought the reshaped floor inlet to Miami and the reprofiled fences to Austria. Not to mention McLaren brought floor changes to Baku,Austria and Jeddah (boat tail).organic wrote: ↑31 Jul 2023, 22:37In 2022 by Hungary (pre-summer shutdown) Merc, RB, Ferrari had all brought 2 extensive floor upgrades along with a bunch of other developments - 2 extra RWs for Ferrari for instance.scuderiabrandon wrote: ↑31 Jul 2023, 22:32Another major package is confirmed for the 2nd half of the season so not unlikely.
If you look at teams like AMR, MCL, MB all of them brought substanstial amount of upgrades during the 2022 season without exceeding. With further optimization of financials, material/manufacturing cost, you'll see teams be able to fit more development into the budget cap.
This season we've seen only 1 new floor spec for Ferrari, no new floor spec for RB or Merc. Seems most teams are finding less performance from floor upgrades now, just from speculation.
I think it is a case of which area the teams are focused on. RBR obviously won't bring anything substanstial until absolutely neccessary and Merc have been laser focused on the sidepods.
Ferrari found quite substantial gains with the re-profiled floor fences but still run a very conventional ground effect floor. I don't think it is a coincidence that MCL and RBR who both run these very peculiarly shaped tunnels dominate the high speed corners.Neither do they run any of the kick points in the center boat section as we see teams run across the grid from RBR down to Williams I think there is performance to be found still.