On the eve of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, Mercedes showed off their long-awaited upgrades for their troubled 2023 F1 car which includes new sidepods, front suspension and floor.
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Wow this is really a cool development. I guess we won't have 10 cars looking the same as last year.. merc making big change
The floor is nowhere near as exposed as last year. Almost filling it up now
Zeropods are dead. Long live weird pods
it is still zeropod. Reshaped, but same philosohpy.
Sorry, but that isn't "Zeropod" any more, not at all. Its concept and philosophy thats SIMILAR in that it tries to keep some of its benefits without having the massive disasvantages. But it changed so much that its not at all a Zeropod concept anymore.
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Wow this is really a cool development. I guess we won't have 10 cars looking the same as last year.. merc making big change
The floor is nowhere near as exposed as last year. Almost filling it up now
Zeropods are dead. Long live weird pods
it is still zeropod. Reshaped, but same philosohpy.
Sorry, but that isn't "Zeropod" any more, not at all. Its concept and philosophy thats SIMILAR in that it tries to keep some of its benefits without having the massive disasvantages. But it changed so much that its not at all a Zeropod concept anymore.
it is still zeropod. Reshaped, but same philosohpy.
Sorry, but that isn't "Zeropod" any more, not at all. Its concept and philosophy thats SIMILAR in that it tries to keep some of its benefits without having the massive disasvantages. But it changed so much that its not at all a Zeropod concept anymore.
It is zeropods
Absolutely not. Sidepods are clearly visible from the front, top and the sides. From the top you can even clearly see their shape from front to rear. Thats not Zeropods.
Sorry, but that isn't "Zeropod" any more, not at all. Its concept and philosophy thats SIMILAR in that it tries to keep some of its benefits without having the massive disasvantages. But it changed so much that its not at all a Zeropod concept anymore.
It is zeropods
Absolutely not. Sidepods are clearly visible from the front, top and the sides. From the top you can even clearly see their shape from front to rear. Thats not Zeropods.
You can compare it to other cars it's still zeropods , just a different design
Zeropods
It's difficult to compare with the Ferrari 641 because there's so much more floor real estate now. And also you can see how far out the tires are in the Ferrari. In the current formula, the tires are a critical "aero device" as they interfere with the airflow pattern of the bodywork much more drastically than in 1990.
Absolutely not. Sidepods are clearly visible from the front, top and the sides. From the top you can even clearly see their shape from front to rear. Thats not Zeropods.
You can compare it to other cars it's still zeropods , just a different design
Zeropods
what the w13 had will and always be the zeropods idea
They've ditched zeropods but developed the good ideas behind it to this new approach with an elongated but low sidepod and cannon exits.
Absolutely not. Sidepods are clearly visible from the front, top and the sides. From the top you can even clearly see their shape from front to rear. Thats not Zeropods.
You can compare it to other cars it's still zeropods , just a different design
Zeropods
How about vertical pods. Vertipods.
Zeropods is just playing with semantics for the sake of it, there's obviously nothing "zero" about them, they're quite present.
Absolutely not. Sidepods are clearly visible from the front, top and the sides. From the top you can even clearly see their shape from front to rear. Thats not Zeropods.
You can compare it to other cars it's still zeropods , just a different design
Zeropods
what the w13 had will and always be the zeropods idea
They've ditched zeropods but developed the good ideas behind it to this new approach with an elongated but low sidepod and cannon exits.
Let's just call it the halfpod and be done with this argument.
Clearly they have slightly more volume overall than last season, but still way less than the other teams.