DGP123 wrote: ↑28 Sep 2023, 16:14
mkay wrote: ↑28 Sep 2023, 15:12
Won 2021 and managed to create a platform that will dominate 2022-2025.
The depressing reality
There just isn’t enough evidence out there to suggest Merc have the brains or ability to turn this around. I don’t see anyone touching RB in this regulation, a view pretty much shared.
Unfortunately, with the championships sewn up, the team mate battles at Merc, Ferrari & McLaren, look like the only interest until the 26’ reset.
The issue is that they have to recover the current gap + whatever RB will find with the RB20 without any major changes to the regulations.
It means they have to be much more efficient in the development. I have never seen a team recovering such a gap to a dominant team without any changes to the regulations.
In 2003 we had the tyre war, in 2012 there were some important changes, in 2017 we had a major change, in 2021 the changes to the geometry of the floor had a massive impact on lap times, etc.
Nothing is planned for 2024 so... It's going to be extremely difficult. I think even recovering half of the current gap would be almost a miracle.