Cocles wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 01:52
Were you not watching the sport back then? It was readily accepted that it was done to slow down Merc
Nonsense. Can you find a consensus from 2020 saying that it is readily accepted that the floor cuts will target low rake cars?!
I was following the sport and did not hear that anywhere. If anything, the majority of pundits thought the cuts would disproportionately affect the high rake cars (so everyone apart from Mercedes and Racing Point).
Given Red Bull's high rake arrangement, the initial thought was that it could come off worse because of the new floors. However, others argue that Mercedes could actually be the ones hurt the most from the arrangement.
If you look at it objectively it seems that both short wheelbase/high rake and long wheelbase/low rake philosophies are going to take a hit then.
But, how much will depend on the reliance each has on the aerodynamic functionality of the outgoing fully enclosed holes on their floor and diffuser, when compared with the losses they'll initially accrue from the trimming down of the floor, brake ducts and diffuser. ... Right now there is not a clear answer as to who comes off worse, but there seems no doubt it is going to have an impact.
https://au.motorsport.com/f1/news/why-f ... r/4939381/
Even in 2020, even Mercedes and Racing Point
themselves did not express concerns that the floor cuts would disproportionately affect them, unless I'm mistaken?
Allison's does not mention
any concern that the high-rake cars have been advantaged. Why would he omit
that from his comments if it is a pertinent political topic for Mercedes
before the 2021 season starts?
First and foremost, there has been a triangular cut-out to the edges of the floor in front of the rear wheels
which when you see it, you’ll think, ‘that doesn’t look that big’. ... It’s been our challenge over the weeks and months since those rules were set in stone to try to recover as much of the performance as possible.That has been quite an entertaining ride in the windtunnel and in CFD to try and make sure that we get that performance as far as possible back onto the car.
- James Allison
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the- ... ense-task/
It's all very well to mention it after the 2021 season starts and there is comparative data, but the time to identify and mention the concern and play politics is in 2020, no?!