bananapeel23 wrote: ↑31 May 2024, 15:37
Andi76 wrote: ↑31 May 2024, 07:35
bananapeel23 wrote: ↑30 May 2024, 15:58
The Ferrari floor edge still looks so basic compared to Red Bull. Surely there is still a lot of headroom for development for Ferrari.
You shouldn't assume that ornate and complex automatically means better and more advanced.
I know more complex doens't automatically mean more better, but in the case of F1, the more complex solutions tend to correlate with better performance. Ferrari is vertianyl running a much more primitive floor edge than Red Bull in particular. That seems (at least to me) to mean that they haven't been able to fully explore that region to extract all of the performance that is on the table. Perhaps their floor edge is perfect despite its simplicity, but I kind of just doubt that given that the other teams keep pursuing ever more complex solutions. If simplicity is best, you owuld expect the other teams to also pursue simplicity.
I understand what you're saying and that's certainly not wrong, but at the end of the day it's how the parts interact, whether they're complex or simple, that matters and the development of those parts is based on that. So you would have to come to the conclusion that Ferrari will soon be in the lead with a nice gap, because a lot of the Ferrari parts, especially in the important ground area, seem relatively simple compared to Red Bull. Therefore, the development potential would be significantly greater and easier to find. At the end of the day, however, it is neither simplicity nor complexity but how the parts interact, whether simple or complex. Of course, you are also right that in the course of development, many things simply become more complex. Nevertheless, the development status and development potential itself should not be determined by what is simple or complex and where. Because while one team is developing in one direction, the other team is developing in another and this always depends on necessity (especially in times of budget caps), as well as on the concept of the vehicle and its aerodynamics. So it may well be that this area promises less of a performance increase for Ferrari than it does for Red Bull or McLaren, for example. Therefore - what you say is certainly correct, but it is also true that an assessment based purely on complexity should generally be treated with caution.