yener wrote:Since they have the shortest wheelbase, does that make the whole car shorter? If so they can produce more downforce with a larger one.
Think they would be better of with slower topspeeds and more angel on the wings.
The front wing looks still like the BPG one. Think thats a signal that they really don't have a clue to develope a better one.
The shorter wheelbase does have impact on downforce, but not in the sense of "longer car= more downforce" Their thoughts were that the limited size of the diffusor would have bigger impact on a ( compared to other cars) shorter floor. They were, like dren mentioned, thrilled by the idea of using EXPANDING exhaust gasses to generate or better simulate an airflow you would normally have on a "non bottle shaped rear" They have a quite massive reduction in width behind the double radiators, and compensate the turbulences, or fill the low pressure zone with exhaust gasses.
Just by increasing the angle of a wing you don`t earn downforce proportional to drag. This is very depending on the wing`s profile, and they gain as much downforce as they can for sure. As they are using a non developed front wing, one could say that they are happy with the airflow around the car this wing produces. Furthermore a forbidden double diffusor has the effect that you don`t need tons of downforce at the front, cause it is simply missing at the car`s rear. As you could hear both drivers complaints about the balance when MKII wing was mounted, speculations about the wing beeing "too effective" in relation to the rest of the car may be right.
Now that they`ve introduced the new exhaust system, which surely generates more downforce at the rear, PLUS ( and this is more important) the solved problem with tyre degradation, i expect MGP to mount the MK III wing within the next races. Because next year they sure want to have a new one
And, once again ( please don´t take it personal, cause you`re not the only one who wrote this) THIS WING IS NOT like the one that was mounted on BGP001....it simply isn`t.