
No, that would be easy to solve. Somehow they have a lack of (mechanical) grip at the rear. I personally think it's a fault somewhere in the geometry of the suspension.Leon wrote:is the source of problems with rear tires is high temperature from exhaust gases?
Morteza AMG wrote:W02 seems to be much worse than the infamous W01. I just don't get it! They stopped developing W01 halfway through last season to start developing their new car. The result is worse! Their race pace is awful. Do they have any idea what they are doing with their car? The car can do well on a single lap, but drops pace afterwards. They had brought back those vents behind sidepods.[The image is courtesy of Daimler AG]
The team is getting boring. Just like you said; they can;t give an answer on anything. They don't know anything and they are not clear in many similair things.Adamski wrote:Sorry for another boring post, but for me, it is also boring what Mercedes do. We don't know now, what was the problem with Michael's car, maybe it is a wrong rebuild after his crash or overheating.
But the main problem is, that in Fridays, the drivers were so optimistic about the race pace, but in Sundays, the car start blistering the tires and it is about 1 or 2 seconds per lap slower, than the front runners.
Awesome lot of work for this team, and a real shame, as the chassis mainly not as bad, as it looks in race days.
I think it's not a determining factor, as you can see them winning a championship. In this way, we can ask questions, how the hell a "party team" can beat teams like Ferrari and McLaren.samstre wrote:what did you expect? after all it's still the same old honda crew that screwed up since BAR times.
I think they really did a very bad copy of the 2010 Redbull. There short whellbase is killing them: high center of gravity (the gearbox), bad cooling (also high), bad suspension geometry and bad aero. Even the exaust is probably not optimal. I really think the good qualy performance is only because Michael and Nico. Nico is famous for doing fast qualy laps from the times of Williams, wan't talk about Michael. One can notice that cars with longer wheelbases complain alot less about tyre problems then cars with a short wheelbase. Apart from aero I think the CoG has a big part in this. I really think they need a new designer with common sense. And they need real updates because I have not seen any this season. They should change half of the car not playing around with details. As this way the won't find 2 s of race performance.samstre wrote:To get back to "technical" part...
If you compare McLaren, Ferrari, RedBull and Mercedes... You can see that the Ferrari and the Mercedes are both quite "tailhappy" while the McLaren and espcially the RedBull look quite easy to drive.
The next thing we could notice was that Vettels RedBull was really good out of the corners - even when his tires were old.
Merc (especially Michael) had problems whith their rear. Nicos car looked (a little bit) better balanced. Thats why they had graining at their rear on option tires. Mercedes and Ferrari both struggle in generating downforce at the rear. And it looks like Mercedes miscalculated their suspension geometry (again).
-> Bad mechanical grip + lousy aero = MERC