Ahhh that was the start of the 22 season though.Ground Effect wrote: ↑18 Oct 2023, 12:21James Key had said a while back that the team had actually considered some of the concepts that ended up being more successful, but ended up going the conservative route. So it's likely some level of R&D had already been done, meaning they weren't exactly starting from zero when the switched philosophies.K1Plus wrote: ↑18 Oct 2023, 11:35What is also encouraging is that, despite following the Red Bull concept, the engineers understand what each part does and why it's supposed to do that, they understand the design of the concept, unlike some other British teams (The one owned by a daddy).trinidefender wrote: ↑18 Oct 2023, 11:31
It was also mentioned that the Toyota Cologne tunnel cannot simulate yaw very well. That would make sense considering a common trait among the McLaren cars for the last 5 years seem to be a weak mid corner front end. Consistently losing time on long corners. Especially 2018 where the front tyres were too close to the front of the floor so in any turn there was a lot of dirty air hitting the floor.
If that is true then it tracks with the tunnel not being able to simulate yaw well.
Secondly and, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there an issue where the Cologne tunnel cannot run full 60% models in it?
22: "We saw all these great ideas, we just didn't have time to look at them because of catching up with Covid and we were being conservative, we are now kicking ourselves for not pushing more"
23: "By the time we realised that we had the wrong approach to the floor, it was too late to do much more with the car, so we had to start over"
These are not exact quotes at all, but capture the point of what was said. I think that since then a lot of what is on the car probably exceeds what they saw at the start of last year, and is informed by this and last years cars, with particular note to the Red Bull floor that was revealed this year. The sidepods this year are way more developed than what was on the grid last year.