It is speculated that Newey was already trying to turn them away from this path over the winter and losing his power to influence the development is why he left. The Imola update toppled the whole thing over.organic wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 21:25Yes but they pursued peak load particularly during 2024 during which time they made the issues far worse. I suspect Newey would've turned them away from this path had he been here still. Maybe they wouldn't have discovered the issue with the instability so soon or at all, but I think the car wouldn't be so uncompetitive
Singapore 2023 was the preview of the kind of behavior that this concept could produce when operating at the extremes of load and ground clearance. Judging by the performance of the VCARB on friday, it was never a suspension problem. It was aerodynamic.