organic wrote: ↑02 Mar 2023, 12:12
nico5 wrote: ↑02 Mar 2023, 12:10
organic wrote: ↑02 Mar 2023, 11:57
I have consulted the archives and they have mounted the medium-high df wing again on the car which was used for most of testing. Seems to be their wing of choice for Bahrain. Not dueling ferrari for topspeed then perhaps
It still is a lower df wing than their medium df wing from last year. It's somewhere halfway between the two specs they used for most of the season (Bahrain and Jeddah). I don't think there's gonna be a big gap in top speed at all. Ferrari only matched RB's medium df wing speed when they introduced the RW they ran in testing this year. Now RB has gone down a notch. If anything, RB might lose out in the acceleration if Ferrari's got some engine magic to show.
https://i.imgur.com/3OHK2vU.png
You reckon spec 1 is higher df than spec 2? I can't tell. So bad at judging these things. Angle on these photos is a bit different mind you
Last season it seemed like RB often had to use a compromised wing setup at medium-high df tracks such as Bahrain and Zandvoort. Seems to me that a med-high df wing was lacking in their lineup so would make sense if the wing on the car is that one
Exactly, spec 1 is what they run for the race in 2022 (Bahrain, also in Australia, Imola, Canada, GB, Austria, Dutch, Japan, US, Brazil, Abu Dhabi). The gap with their lower df wing was indeed quite big but not huge, though there were times they seemed to wish to be able to run the lower df spec but just couldn't get the balance right with it (Abu Dhabi for instance). Spec 2 from testing seems to be the compromise they've gone for. I think it's what they ran most of the time in testing so they must be happy with it.
