Mercedes AMG F1 W05

[MercAMGF1Fans]

Has anyone got any trackside impressions from the W05?

I'm going there on Saturday.. will take pics etc

[Bredd]

Would love to know if there is under or oversteer occurring. If the drivers are having to work the wheel hard and any general impressions.

[theformula]

Would love to know if there is under or oversteer occurring. If the drivers are having to work the wheel hard and any general impressions.

I agree. There has been a disappointing lack of insight from the media, such as the likes of sky and autosport, into how the cars look to be handling and how the drivers are managing that.
They have people standing trackside, yet they are shedding very little light into this matter...

[heimana]

http://i.imgur.com/e302Owd.jpg

different engine cover? can we have more pictures of the rear with the new one?! look very interesting

[BorisTheBlade]

In the pictures above they are running a new engine cover, right? Due to the cooling needs in Bahrain...

I realised that as well. In the shots where the car breaks the fin is almost non existent. Looks like what Red Bull mostly uses. Definitely different to the pics of back of the car.

[BorisTheBlade]

http://i.imgur.com/e302Owd.jpg

different engine cover? can we have more pictures of the rear with the new one?! look very interesting

Can't find anything in today's AMuS gallery.

[f1rules]

seems the cooling outlets so far is not enough, so theyve added another

[gray41]

http://xpb.cc/thumbnails/2014/f1-2014-b ... LT_450.jpg

Rear of the car with engine cover.

[heimana]

http://xpb.cc/thumbnails/2014/f1-2014-b ... LT_450.jpg

Rear of the car with engine cover.

looks like the toro rosso

[dans79]

Times are almost completely irrelevant, they could be running heavy or down on power in comparison to the other teams for testing...

I'm talking about comparing to a known quantity, like last years qualifying times. Assuming a team isn't cheating, If someone goes out tomorrow and puts in a low 1:34 of high 1:33 people would sit up and take notice. A fast lap time is a line in the sand, or a statement of intent to your competion.

[atanatizante]

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I'm curious though how this will act at low speed, when vortices are weaker and when downforce is needed the most.

On other forum people says they could use the heat from the rear brake when the driver is underbraking ...
This heat is channeled towards the same space used last year for (part) blowing and that`s the reason they left the upright in front of the rear tyre.
This way they could energize the airflow in this area and this will end into a vortex which is generated by the squared upper diffuser edge ... btw. almost every team has a rounded diffuser edge in order to gain some advantage from the tyre wake low pressure but Merc which is apparently doing something else ...

[MacX]

Interesting new engine cover?

[BorisTheBlade]

http://xpb.cc/thumbnails/2014/f1-2014-b ... LT_450.jpg

Rear of the car with engine cover.

+1
Looks as huge as i thought. Also the lower outlet on the right side looks bigger. So maybe they have the intercooler on the left side.

[tomek108]

http://www.nextgen-auto.com/gallery/pic ... ev/164.jpg

In this picture it looks that a car is in high speed. Rake is not so huge, so that means that a car has a decent amount of downforce or maybe has soft suspension setting due to the interlinked suspension, or maybe both...thoughts?

[diego.liv]

http://www.nextgen-auto.com/gallery/pic ... ev/164.jpg

In this picture it looks that a car is in high speed. Rake is not so huge, so that means that a car has a decent amount of downforce or maybe has soft suspension setting due to the interlinked suspension, or maybe both...thoughts?

Assuming Nico was in the same set-up, here you can see it's not a super rake
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/02/20/b ... hr-2014-p/