AMG.Tzan wrote: ↑04 May 2024, 15:41
They’ve gone back and forth with this floor edge design a million times since 2022! That’s not new! They add multiple strakes and then they make it simpler again!
When are they going to add something new to this car? I get the feeling that the only thing that changed in 2024 are the sidepods and the suspension! The floor must have stayed the same, there’s no other explanation…
Same thing goes for the rear wings! 2 rear wing designs in 3 year…
The problem is is aero isn’t additive, you can’t just add something new here or there and expect it to work. So, what you see are small detail changes, typically because they’re constrained by the flow field as designed by that year’s concept.
For big changes to work, you have to change everything, starting at the nose / front wing, and working backward. That just doesn't work in the cost cap era.
Furthermore, it doesn’t matter what they do if they have correlation issues, because it’s never going to be right. As I said before, no one purposely designs a bad car from the get go, and if there are correlation issues, you could argue Merc is trying to fix things they can’t see in CFD or the WT… they’re trying to fix things they can’t see which means the fix is never guaranteed.