I would assume the impact of the deformation is at least twofold, in that it changes the way the wake feeds off from the tyre, but if it deforming it will be masking a little bit of the feel of the road as it does so.PhillipM wrote: ↑14 Feb 2023, 14:36The front wing has been scalloped and even shifted slightly forward wrt the tyre to deal with the tyre wake when cornering more, that's part of what was being worked on when they found the front tyres deform differently.
That's why I'm assuming they'll have more tweaks there as only finding that out mid winter is quite late.
Not sure if that is totally correct but it feels like it might be right.
I would guess this is not unique to the Mclaren, does this suggest that the feel of road from the car, or lack of, is down to this deformation?
Have other teams to anyone's knowledge managed to deal with this at all? If they didn't know before, I wonder if there is work to be done on the setup such as tyre pressures and the temperature to which we allow the tyre to reach, assuming that the tyre may deform less when cooler. Or whether the car simply turns out to be faster using a conventional setup.