That child is going to absolutely love F1, Ferrari and Kimi forever more
Great work all involved
Yeah, i do remember that. Someone was praising Mercedes, that it was so good and had so much downforce that they didn't had to do much to the car.garychopper wrote: ↑30 May 2017, 11:42I faintly remember it was mentioned somewhere that Ferrari's mule had the least amount of downforce increase from their 2016 car. Mercedes had a bit more and red bull replicated 2017 downforce levels quite accurately. One of the forum members was making fun of Ferrari's lack of downforce and how they were incompetent by failing to replicate these downforce levels.
It just so happens now that Ferrari is setting the standard for tire use...
I do not think it was on purpose. That was an accident, they just did not allocate any time on the mule car. You can see, that they glued some skirts and an old beam wing to it, not more.tpe wrote: ↑30 May 2017, 10:16You do remember I guess all the rumours last year about the DF levels of the mule car and how lower DF it had etc etc etc.
I don't believe for a second that they couldn't create a mule car with similar DF levels as the 2017 cars. I believe that they opted (at least MB) for a mule car with low DF levels in order to hide their true targets and they relied on simulations. Back fired. Good.
Here is one reason...basti313 wrote: ↑30 May 2017, 17:01I do not think it was on purpose. That was an accident, they just did not allocate any time on the mule car. You can see, that they glued some skirts and an old beam wing to it, not more.tpe wrote: ↑30 May 2017, 10:16You do remember I guess all the rumours last year about the DF levels of the mule car and how lower DF it had etc etc etc.
I don't believe for a second that they couldn't create a mule car with similar DF levels as the 2017 cars. I believe that they opted (at least MB) for a mule car with low DF levels in order to hide their true targets and they relied on simulations. Back fired. Good.
On the other hand Ferrari designed a special rear wing.
To me it is puzzling, that Merc did not allocate time to the testing. I still think that their big success is partially based on the tire testing they did with Pirelli the season before the domination. They should know how relevant these tests are.
We can´t deny the fact that Vettel is tremendously profesional. =D> =D> =D>giantfan10 wrote: ↑31 May 2017, 01:08JamesallenonF1 claims that Mercedes were complacent and assumed they would run away with the 2017 title too by sending Wehrlein to test the 2017 tires.
He also claims the Vettel visited the pirelli manufacturing planton more than one occasion to see how the tires were manufactered. He cites all of the above as a decided advantage for Ferrari because he claims that all the information that Vettel gathered was key in the design process for the SF-70H... visiting the factory was not illegal and open to any driver... only vettel chose to go....
Funny enough, the Red Bull seems to have a worse usage of the tyres. Quite weird, isn´t it?garychopper wrote: ↑30 May 2017, 11:42I faintly remember it was mentioned somewhere that Ferrari's mule had the least amount of downforce increase from their 2016 car. Mercedes had a bit more and red bull replicated 2017 downforce levels quite accurately. One of the forum members was making fun of Ferrari's lack of downforce and how they were incompetent by failing to replicate these downforce levels.
It just so happens now that Ferrari is setting the standard for tire use...