Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director - Business), Paddy Lowe (Executive Director - Technical), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Niki Lauda (Chairman), Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoffrey Willis (Technology Director), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Dane (CM) Drivers: Nico Rosberg (6), Lewis Hamilton (44) Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
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Is that floor legal? how is it that the floor is allowed to slope down at the junction of the step? it is supposed to be 50 mm step but at that point it is no more than 25.
"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe."Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
Is that floor legal? how is it that the floor is allowed to slope down at the junction of the step? it is supposed to be 50 mm step but at that point it is no more than 25.
where do you spot the step in this picture? The floor dimensions are specified for the surface facing the ground ...we cannnot se this at all in this picture and there is no reg specifying floor thickness really (plank ,yes ) ...
what you see here is no more than core material covered by carbon fibre .No need to run the core material full thickness across the width of the floor here so they keep thickness for rigidity in some areas and machine down the core in other areas ..the step you are seeing is a matter of favorable drapability of the fibres by the looks of things .
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i have to say, mercedes must have invested enormous sums of money in this car, the attention to detail everywhere, the packaging, everything. Its amazing. I know you cant judge anything from just looking, but even the packaging in the sidepods, a discipline where rb has been absolute amazing until this year i think, the merc just looks amazing. How clean everything is. How many nosecones they used already this year? 3? And its a new crashtest everytime. The airflow treatment, with the brilliant nosecone design, frontsuspension lower arm starting in one piece, the detailed "Barge boards" under the chassis, the snowplough, 4blade bargeboards and so on and so on. The gearbox with outer shell so they can easily change suspension pickup points etc- etc. The floor which we just saw a great picture of. This car is mind blowing. And the others need to do an extraordinary job to catch up for sure
"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe."Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
You can almost imagine the airflow going through that front wing.
"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe."Murray Walker, San Marino 1985