Vanja #66 wrote: ↑03 Jun 2024, 11:31
Not sure what AMuS usually comes up with for their articles, but this one's full of completely wrong assumptions and seems completely devoid of input from any actual team personnel inputs. If the rear of the floor stalls at low ride heights, RB cars would have ended up off track every weekend since 2022 and had a big double DNF in every race.
Furthermore, Ferrari has a very different aero philosophy when it comes to diffuser kick and there is no aero mechanism to stall it since their kick is higher up and has very different geometry.
The mythical triple-DRS was always a nonsense, was adequately debunked and I can't believe this high-speed floor-stall still comes up as an idea 3 years into this regulation cycle...
Having a complex rear suspension travel as a function of various parameters is one thing and it's clear Ferrari's been working a lot on this. But the floor stall as the overarching idea discredits the article completely...
What was the original source of this rumor? I think even Wache said it's not as complicated as people were making it out to be and
they were surprised people were not catching on what made their DRS powerful (but not so powerful on high-downforce tracks).
Edit: Also, can't the rear squatting on the straights mean the car is running on the softer side on the rear suspension? On the straights you get the highest speeds and the highest DF loads, so it makes sense for all cars to squat at least a little bit.