1) why is the yellow colouring not extend laterally 'all the way to the tub'
Now that is something. Between these and the Ferrari grid-fins, I don't know how the regulations are allowing these sorts of developments.
This keeps getting more and more interesting. I wonder whether they are chasing performance mods that are supposed to take the car from 99% to 99.5%, whilst the car is actually at 80%.
They really have no clue, right ? Maybe they are waiting for the new windtunnel to become on line, but it takes you quite some time to get the windtunnel and your modeling in sync.
That sounds about right. For example there doesn't seem to be anything for the understeer in these updates. It always seems that they are always chasing something in the updates for the cooling instead of where the issue lies which seems to be weight and understeer. Since Wache took over as the main guy from Newey it seems to be a pattern when you look at how many inlet and sidepod variations since mid to late 24.
So this picture suggests that the sidepod change is :
Maybe the front wing has some work to do but the rest of the car looks AOK on aero and more importantly when they bring updates it either has no improvement or a loss. Weight is the main issue but I think there is something in the front suspension / steering geometry that needs fixing and certainly the gearbox needs to be sorted out as well because those are the 2 areas that the drivers seem to be complaining about and struggling with. The huge amounts of understeer is horrible.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑16 Apr 2026, 23:47Insane level of intricacy. Explains that the slowness of this car is not down to aero. It's just overweight. I can see why they are not panicking.
