Engine chief Andy Cowell, talks Mercedes power units, and how it is becoming ever more challenging to find further gains, now that we're up for the 6th season with power unit regulations.
It is from the video dans79 has posted above. Geoff Willis is explaining it standing next to a W09, so maybe it's from that car?roon wrote: ↑07 Jun 2019, 23:25https://twitter.com/techF1LES/status/11 ... 34848?s=20
What car is this from?
Engine out, scary! but they seem to think they've fixed it, there are only two mechanics working on it nowetusch wrote: ↑09 Jun 2019, 18:28An oil leak at ham's engine
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/merc ... k/4460987/
Ha, great, there's just a great feeling with this team isn't there, like it's such a brilliant place to work. You can see why there's this theory that part of their neverending success is that nobody leaves! When normally part of the cycle is that people in a successful team get poached to other teams, but with this team it's not happening
It looks like it, I know that the rear suspension on the W10 has a split lower wishbone; similar to how the RB15 front upper wishbone is split. If you look at the animation the lower wishbone and trackrod are shaped like a 'z' which was the geometry used in the W09.Morteza wrote: ↑07 Jun 2019, 23:27It is from the video dans79 has posted above. Geoff Willis is explaining it standing next to a W09, so maybe it's from that car?roon wrote: ↑07 Jun 2019, 23:25https://twitter.com/techF1LES/status/11 ... 34848?s=20
What car is this from?
There were differing reports in the media about why they did what they did. Mercedes themselves said, they were not ready for first test as the team needed more time to finish the car and hence, had decided to bring a car that was probably an earlier iteration (a few months old).IvailoStefanovBG wrote: ↑18 Jun 2019, 17:16Does somebody know why Mercedes tested two different aero specs in Barcelona pre- season testing? Were these two specs with completely different downforce levels?
May be they were trying to protect their Barcelona S3 performance advantage from any kind of video analysis from live TV footage? I guess we would never know.The silver arrow in the first test session in Barcelona tried the basic set-up: the front was chosen for the push rod strut, while behind it worked on four steering wheels and the height from the ground. The real Mercedes will appear next week.
I would go with they wanted more time, than trying to hide from video analysis. I'm sure every team had members stationed around the tracks with video cameras on tripods, it's far to cheap for them not to.
