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As pre-season winter testing has come to an end, McLaren looks back on a troubled 12 days, admitting the team will face a difficult start to the season.
No, they will also have some performance parts. Coming so it will be more like 8secsantos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
Yeah, but there was something very dodgy about that post. No sources, no dates, no times, no nothing.mertol wrote:Ferrari don't seem to be full speed either considering they have 20km/h slower speed trap than sauber.
According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.santos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
Would that still mean that in most ways the basis of the W06 is still a W05, since the lots of stuff internally is compatible with W05 parts. So the W06 is inspired of the W05 even though Costa said it's an entirely new car. It's inspired not evolved.MercedesAMGSpy wrote:According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.santos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
But I thought the car is completely new, right from the structure, not a evolution... According to Aldo Costa...MercedesAMGSpy wrote:According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.santos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
What would be the benefit of running so many W05 parts now? Surely the point of this testing period is to suss out their new car? Unless the design of these parts haven't changed?According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.
Chassis wise and internal packaging wise it is completely new; however it's still running the old aero package. Old front wing, old rear wing, old diffuser,... .Chene_Mostert wrote:But I thought the car is completely new, right from the structure, not a evolution... According to Aldo Costa...MercedesAMGSpy wrote:According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.santos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
I suggest you spy. Some more for reliable info.
For one there is a huge overhead time to produce a new aero package. If they had to wait to had all the new parts finished, they would not be able test a new car.dodds_turbo wrote:What would be the benefit of running so many W05 parts now? Surely the point of this testing period is to suss out their new car? Unless the design of these parts haven't changed?According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.
Also 'performance parts are still to come', I presume this means in Barcelona/Melbourne?
There will be further optimalisations. You have to understand that with a modified chassis and front crash structure your airflow structures are changed, forcing you to reoptimize to the new situation. And teams always find small gains, year after year. They never truly are at the optimal point. If they were we'd be having a naturally evolved spec series.Chene_Mostert wrote:But if the "old"wings and diffusor is optimal why would they change it? Is there a guarantee that the these parts will be changed? What if the New parts look exactly like the old parts?
But red bull didnt have a couple of days in abu dahbi in November to run the new engine like mclaren and honda did. Those 2 days should have meant the could be consistently running in JerezKingHamilton01 wrote:Just a thought for those who constantly mention how little McLaren Honda have ran etc, Red Bull only ran 21 lap's in the whole jerez test last season and to my knowledge McLaren have ran over 70 Lap's so far!
I suggest you see the difference between new parts and old parts, the new parts are still to come.Chene_Mostert wrote:But I thought the car is completely new, right from the structure, not a evolution... According to Aldo Costa...MercedesAMGSpy wrote:According to Craig Scarborough Mercedes is using the old floor and loads of other old W05 parts. In other words, this is just the beginning.santos wrote:Well if Mercedes is working on reability, not showing their pace and with a full tank is runnig just one second slower then Ferrari, when they start to work on the performance they will be what? 5 seconds faster?
I suggest you spy. Some more for reliable info.