Yeah, doesn't look good at all right now. The balance is all over the place.
Early to judge if it's just a matter of setup, or this concept is faulty.
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Yeah, doesn't look good at all right now. The balance is all over the place.
They all have less than ideal setups, the Ferrari just power slid through turn 11.
Sure looks like it
Traction is often not great out of corners and twitching seems more mid corner, down force not yet consistent?Emag wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022, 11:03Yeah, doesn't look good at all right now. The balance is all over the place.
Early to judge if it's just a matter of setup, or this concept is faulty.
The revised W13 may look like a completely new car, but it is not. More like an evolution. "We have only built new bodywork. The innards underneath have remained the same. In Barcelona we simply had more air between the bodywork and the components underneath," explains team boss Toto Wolff. Chief engineer Andrew Shovlin confirms: "Mechanically, the car is the same as in Barcelona. Only the outer skin has changed."
#AMuSWing shaped mirror mount
Most of the discussion was about the sidepods. Mercedes integrates the upper crash structure into the wing element that protrudes horizontally from the chassis. Officially, the wing is considered a holder for the rear-view mirror. But this creative interpretation of the regulations is already stirring things up.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner threatens resistance: "These are not mirror mounts, but two wings. They also have vertical baffles built on top. They have nothing to do with the mirror mount."
Said fins partly point outwards. This is interpreted by the competition as an outwash element. "From our point of view, Mercedes went a step too far. That does not correspond to the spirit of the regulations. For us, these wings are illegal," Horner railed. Mercedes is calm about the criticism. The car was thus approved by the FIA. The FIA inspectors had the CAD data on their desk weeks ago.
The new side box concept has another advantage. It creates a lot of free space on the base plate and thus gives more freedom for the front diffuser tunnel. "The area is strictly regulated, but that's where we found great potential for development," an engineer tells us. The inlet into the floor has been modified accordingly.
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... k-bahrain/
If the car is understeering in repeated similar scenarios and oversteering in again similar scenarios its setup.
Lap times are well over 5s slower than 2021 pole time. Car's aren't that close to their limit, so all problems right now are coming from figuring out the setup that suits them (or teams keep the same poor setup while they test something else). There's nothing dramatically different on the new car that could influence poor behaviour during slower testing laps other than setup.
Yes this is what I'm thinking too. Today they just want rear downforce, as long as they have lots of that they can work on balancing it and all that, with the rest of the data. From this point of view, some porpoising and understeer could be quite promising even.
