1 week to design and simulate a part seems fairly tight. Doesn’t leave much room for iteration on the result unless they know EXACTLY what flow they need to control and what they need it to do.Vanja #66 wrote:formu1a.uno team was also completely wrong about configurations for Hungary and Spa, while Nugnes announced updates before Vasseur confirmed there will be changes in Hungary. If the team made the Hungary change to the floor based on CFD alone, they could have easily found more useful downforce with further geometry improvement and CFD testing.
To bring a small update like this to a track of any kind, you need at least 2-3 days to make the tools, lay down the laminate, cure the parts and finally bond the new bits to existing floor in exactly the right place. Shipping is one more day, so they had about 1 week available between Silverstone and Hungary for design and simulations before the new bits got approved. Since that first week there were 2 more weeks by the end of Spa weekend and 1 more week after Ferragosto to extract the maximum from an interim update. Quite feasible to bring another small change to Netherlands and 2-stage update package later in Monza and Singapore
This goes against those that say they aren’t headless right now.