PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑10 Mar 2021, 05:57
zibby43 wrote: ↑09 Mar 2021, 23:14
I feel like we're in the midst of a failure to communicate
The angled slots that used to be at the rear of the floor are now forbidden. Those slots are what were used to defeat tire squirt.
Here's the '21 floor of the Aston. Notice that there are no slots/holes anymore. There are a few vertical deflectors, but no tire squirt slots:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvpwLhAXAAY ... ame=medium
I immediately noticed that you equated tyre squirt control with the presence of floor slots. So I perfectly understood. Tyre squirt control is still present without the slots... (and was there before the slots too). Many ways to skin a cat.
Yes, that's because the entire field had adopted them as the primary means of controlling it, and why the floor changes that resulted in those slots being taken away *did* theoretically send every team to the back of the pack compared to Abu Dhabi-spec '20 cars by reducing downforce by 10%.
And I wasn't implying that you didn't understand. I was trying to ascertain what you were calling "tire squirters" in your initial reply. I have never heard about or read about any piece of furniture on an F1 car called a "tire squirter."
If you meant vertical deflectors, which obviously also help to create vortices and manage flow in a way to mitigate disruptive air from squirting into the diffuser's path, then obviously those are still allowed.
The difference in performance between a hole, a slot that loses performance as the floor deforms under load, and a mere vertical deflector, is pretty enormous.