Yup plus look at the floor edges of every team. I think all but a couple run the RB18 floor cuts and twisted floor section which extracts air and has gurneys around where the sidepods do most of their outwashingCs98 wrote: ↑18 Feb 2023, 11:59You say that but we have 7 cars following a very similar concept after one year of new regs. Only three of those cars actually started out using the concept (RB, AT, Alpine). And using AM as an example. They were actually quite quick at the end of the season using their RB copy, much quicker than at the start.LM10 wrote: ↑18 Feb 2023, 00:34The concept of copying is overhyped. Remember the Racing Point being almost a total copy of Mercedes. They still were miles away performance wise. A car being a “copy” will never be as fast as the “original” one. You can only hide details of your own car to prevent others implementing it on their own car.
If you have some kind of a silver bullet on your car which you’re trying to hide for 2 additional weeks, it most probably is going to be a hard or almost impossible thing to copy anyway in times of a budget cap. Other than that, it’s always the whole car which works in synergy and can never be copied to the point it works the same.
So copying is very prevalent, even more so now when 7 teams are following a similar concept meaning there’s better correlation for applying stolen ideas.
If RB can hide something like this for a couple of weeks I guess that could have massive benefits in a world where these solutions are easily copyable for the majority of the grid. Maybe they're not RB's current main competition but I guess just assuming that is getting complacent?
