giantfan10 wrote:look here is my view on this then i'm really done.....mercedes is no master of aero...
Again, who says?
they became dominant when the Pu rules changed in 2014 and they had the best pu...
Uhhh, no. They had the fastest car in 2013, it just used the tires pretty heavily.
in 2015 they became smarter and took a page from red bull... top speed means next to nothing in formula one ... ists your cornering speed that counts.... how did mercedes achieve this in 2015 you ask? IN MY OPINION the simplest and cheapest way to accomplish this when you have an aobvious power advantage is just to simply run more downforce to that point that produces faster lap times for you due to cornering speeds without loosing too much speed on the straights...
Sure, there's no doubt that Mercedes have bolted on a higher drag package than last year, that would suggest that they're getting advantage somewhere else, and that's certainly likely to be downforce.
However... Your assertion was that what allowed them to do that was having a better PU. That's where we disagree.
Instead, what allows them to do that is simply having a different aero philosophy from Ferrari. Mercedes have found that their ideal L/D is in the higher drag range than Ferrari's ideal L/D. Because of that, they're setting up the car for reletavily high drag. Their PU is clearly
not what is allowing them to do that, if it was, they would have maintained their high straight line speeds
and gained downforce. But they've not, they have severely compromised their straight line speed in order to gain this downforce.
where was this super duper mercedes aero in the very recent past?....mercedes suddenly discovered a trick that other teams cant figure out? i think not
Well, as I said - in 2013, they had the fastest car. They had the best aero package on the grid.
What they didn't have in 2013 was great mechanical grip, and that severely compromised that season.
