shady wrote: ↑23 Feb 2023, 20:33
Andi76 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2023, 15:01
On Sky Germany it was just confirmed - the cockpit was moved towards the front axle, by almost 20cm.
Thats what the picture I posted said, while others mentioned that it was further back. This guess was 230mm..
https://i.imgur.com/kDhgm4a.jpg
That comparison is completely useless and it's very obvious that the pictures were taken from different angles, probably with different lenses, just have to look at the front and rear wing , how they differ in size, the relative position of the front wheel deflector (which is prescribed by the rules so cannot be different)
One can look at the very same car from two angles and come to the conclusion that it's somehow different:
Any attempt to stretch or distort one image to fit the other and then to the compare cars without having a
very similar picture is futile, and drawing any conclusion based on such a 'comparison' is just impossible, as even the same car will appear different otherwise, as the comparison of the projection on the red line shows:
Or to hammer the point home: the very same model of a car in Assetto Corsa viewed from just slightly different angles (camera positions are in the pic) will result in something very similar to that comparison, arguably even more believable since the proportions are still correct, et voila - the cockpit is in a different place:
As i was writing this NickD explained it really well,
his analysis has the cockpit in the same place, the pictures posted by Mercedes have it in the same place,
my visual analysis had it in the same place.
And to show how much 20cm would actually be i have used the
vanishing point in this image of last year's car to get a decent enough estimate of a cockpit position changed by 20cm forward based on the 3.6m wheelbase:
It is hard to find an image of the W14 from a similar angle (will update the post if i see one) but i think that, apart from the fact that it would be very hard to even fit a driver into that car, it's rather clear that the cockpit simply can't be that much more forward on the W14 relative to the W13: