Today's unveiled Mercedes AMG F1 W09 resembles a lot its sucessful predecessor, the championship winning W08. And this is no coincidence, as team boss Toto Wolff reveals. However, there are some interesting changes to come this year with the new car.
No it's been like that since pre season testing.atanatizante wrote: ↑23 Aug 2018, 21:35Seems to me they followed the new trend with an elongated slot at the edge of the back of the floor: they enlarged the last slot or it was the same?
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Those ribs helps to extract the heat from rims. During braking rim heats up also during cornering temperature of tyre rises and rim conducts the heat. (Something like those ribs on your CPU cooler )
Mercedes has better Tyre wear than most and has an issue transferring heat into the core of the tyre (the surface heats up but not the core). I think Scarbs might be right.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑24 Aug 2018, 10:21More likely the ribs allow heat to be removed from the wheel and thus not heat the tyre.
But wouldnt the centre of the rim be heated while braking and from then it propagates over the whole surface? Those ribs looks more for transfer the heat outmantikos wrote: ↑24 Aug 2018, 12:48Mercedes has better Tyre wear than most and has an issue transferring heat into the core of the tyre (the surface heats up but not the core). I think Scarbs might be right.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑24 Aug 2018, 10:21More likely the ribs allow heat to be removed from the wheel and thus not heat the tyre.
Exactly - remember, they heat the break disks before the race to make sure enough heat is transferred into the core of the tire. In fact, Mercedes was the first ones to introduce a black ribbed strip on the inside of the rim to further aid in getting heat into the core.
The Mercs have had very compliant suspension for some years now, they always look much softer than the other cars. I doubt it goes nose up at speed, maybe close to level if it change that much.Drica wrote: ↑24 Aug 2018, 15:18Is it possible that, because of the merc running low rake angles, the car develops a nose up attitude on the straights? Watching the TV coverage, it seems that the rear squats a fair amount, and it leaves an impression of the rear ride height being lower than the front ride height.
