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Mercedes AMG F1 W04

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Mercedes AMG F1 W04

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company is still the same .
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New front brake ducts as well?
And only Lewis is trying the new rear wing?
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I haven't seen the passive DRS wing on Nico's car. When he turned to the straight, it looked like the ordenary wing..
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Nico ran it only for the first few laps.
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astracrazy
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a lot of updates this weekend, Merc on the move hey.

hopefully they'll all work
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gray41 wrote:Nico ran it only for the first few laps.
Thanks for the update.
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The DRD will probably not work. It's so difficult to get that one right.

The nose, that looks like a relative straight forward update. I think the biggest issue with it was to design it in such a way it could pass the crashtest. Which it did, so I certainly can see them running it in the race.
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turbof1 wrote:The DRD will probably not work. It's so difficult to get that one right.

The nose, that looks like a relative straight forward update. I think the biggest issue with it was to design it in such a way it could pass the crashtest. Which it did, so I certainly can see them running it in the race.
Is'nt it only a "skin" change of the nose? The structual inner cone probably hasn't changed. In that case no crash test is needed.
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no the nose actually was crashtested, I believe it was said so on the previous few pages of this topic
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wesley123 wrote:no the nose actually was crashtested, I believe it was said so on the previous few pages of this topic
Okay.
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What the hell is that? A monkey throne?
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turbof1 wrote:What the hell is that? A monkey throne?
Nothing new, they always use that in combination with DRD.
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I never took notice of it. Can someone explain the purpose of that ehmm.. Piece of vertical carbonfibre attached to the monkey seat?
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Chances are they're just testing the DRD for use at Spa and Monza. It's then likely to come back off the car for Singapore, for example. But great to see that they're making such progress with the aero of the car in parallel to be able to experiment with the DRD.

It's early days but for all the criticism they've had they really are shaping up to being the team to beat.
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