IGOSNELL wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 09:36
Is there not more to Mercedes problems than the floor. Strange that the slimmest bodied car on the grid has these problems. It's the airflow over the top of the car not the problem? If it was just a floor issue they surely would have replaced it by now.
I don't think the floor design is the problem so much as the flexing is making it act like a tyre in many ways and upsetting all the aero philosophy. It makes perfect sense that the slimmest car would have these problems as there is no bodywork to help support the floor like there is on most of the other cars. The short term solution would probably be to put more material in to the floor (extra weight) or bring back the Barcelona sidepod although that wasn't that much larger then what they have now.
In previous years they would have probably had a whole new car for Australia, however this is the cost cap era and so it isn't that simple unless they want to break the cap.