thomin wrote:I have a question regarding the DRD. It sounds to me a lot like a passive F-Duct. Mercedes was running one in 2010, so I wonder whether that could give them an edge here. I seem to remember Brawn saying that it was a mistake to put so much effort into the passive F-Duct, because it took them the whole season to make it work properly. That could be beneficial now however.
AFAIK, the passive F-Duct was all within the rear wing of the car, so there is a fundamental difference to the DRD. But I would imagine that the hardest part is to tune the device so that it's activated at precisely the point you need it. But the same problem applies to the passive F-Duct. So could Mercedes' experience with the passive F-Duct help them now, or is this so different that they'll have to start from scratch again? Because if they can't fall back on their old data, I really wonder if this DRD is worth the effort as nobody but Lotus seems to think it's a path worth exploring...
Sory but your'e wrong. Mercedes couldn't find performances in other areas, specialy when car was hard on tires, also it lacked aero devolopment, so they tried to make effort in that particular area. In other hand Lotus had performances in some hand, and they tried to find gain in that area, specialy when they knowed how much they have lost raw power from engine after coanda exaust. It was worth the risk for them specialy when they knowed DDRS is banned next season. I dont know if other teams decide to use such system specialy when is hard to tune the device, but if Lotus succeeded it will gain them nice advantage. Red Bull tried similar concept of DRD, but it looked similar how DDRS worked. You know Red Bull started winning races and win championship after they maked DDRS, so i think it's worth the effort.
