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She ignores the speculation that there was ride height issues at eau rouge that forced them to run the car at a higher ride height that reduced floor DF.

There were no speculations. Cowell said on Thursday in Spa that they will race with the Imola floor, as they were not sure about the ride height (limit) with the new floor, having just 1 FP, so they used the one they know. In Budapest they also used the Imola floor, so no difference.

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She ignores the speculation that there was ride height issues at eau rouge that forced them to run the car at a higher ride height that reduced floor DF.

There were no speculations. Cowell said on Thursday in Spa that they will race with the Imola floor, as they were not sure about the ride height (limit) with the new floor, having just 1 FP, so they used the one they know. In Budapest they also used the Imola floor, so no difference.

You'd think that after the sprint race they'd have a pretty good idea of the ride height. You could measure the plank and replace it.

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I guess the team knows that too…
Nevertheless they decided not to use the Silverstone-spec floor already before the race week started and used the Imola-spec floor in Budapest too, after testing the 2 against each other in FP.

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Wonder if the silverstone floor is really only designed to work with the long sidepods. Krack was saying the longer sidepods are really for long fast corners like we have at Silverstone. The long sidepods change the flow at the back a bit. They create a stronger flow in the middle and protected that flow from the turbulance coming off the rear tires.

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Wonder if the silverstone floor is really only designed to work with the long sidepods. Krack was saying the longer sidepods are really for long fast corners like we have at Silverstone. The long sidepods change the flow at the back a bit. They create a stronger flow in the middle and protected that flow from the turbulance coming off the rear tires.

Ohh man! ,you can talk so much nonsense lol,because there are not a such a things. Different sidepods need different front wing, brake coolers, rear wings etcetera, yes you can test or use them like frankenstein ,but is not optimal. Anyway i think on Mercedes works really good the new rear suspension so I wouldn't be surprised if they gonna use it also or at least test it.

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Wonder if the silverstone floor is really only designed to work with the long sidepods. Krack was saying the longer sidepods are really for long fast corners like we have at Silverstone. The long sidepods change the flow at the back a bit. They create a stronger flow in the middle and protected that flow from the turbulance coming off the rear tires.

Ohh man! ,you can talk so much nonsense lol,because there are not a such a things. Different sidepods need different front wing, brake coolers, rear wings etcetera, yes you can test or use them like frankenstein ,but is not optimal. Anyway i think on Mercedes works really good the new rear suspension so I wouldn't be surprised if they gonna use it also or at least test it.

Before Hungry FP, Merc said the new rear suspension doesn't work well and they're not gonna use it for the rest of the year.

Sounds like you agree with me with regards to the floor only working with the longer sidepods....With regards to side pods what you're saying is generally true but here we're talking about 2 specific sets of sidepods that are very similar. So they may have been designed to work with all the same parts or some of the same parts or not.....we don't know that.