Jolle wrote:Silent Storm wrote:Jolle wrote:Maybe... RedBull designed their cars around cleaver aero tricks (with mildly flexing the rules sometimes), now they get beaten by two solid packaged designed cars without obvious tricks. Time for a rework of management and design to make a solid design instead of hunting for loopholes.
I think Redbull have to run with higher ride height now due to titanium skid blocks and with that rake the floor might not be generating downforce at low speeds as earlier and with driveability issues from the PU making it worse, but the car seem good on high speed corners and when running heavy with fuel. I might be wrong but this is what I think is effecting that car.
I don't agree. The skidblocks don't add extra ride hight and RedBull always had the biggest rake.
RedBull have always been strong in generating lots of downforce at low and medium corners with blown difusers, flex wings and riding with so much rake because they had all the plank mounting screws at the front (with the FW on the ground).
Saw this in another thread that with titanium skidblocks they have to run higher ride height..
according to
https://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/2 ... ht-sparks/
Earlier this week at Silverstone, Charlie Whiting took questions from the press on a variety of topics, and his explanation of the substance and intention of the skid block regulation, when quizzed upon it by the BBC’s Andrew Benson, was fascinating.
The purpose of making them out of titanium is threefold: Firstly, it’s safer, because if they do come off they are about a third of the weight of the existing ones. Secondly, the titanium wears some 2-2.5 times more quickly than the metal currently used. Thus cars will have to be run a little bit higher to manage wear and teams won’t be able to drag them on the ground quite as much as they have in the past. The third effect is that you will see a lot more sparks, which some people think will look a little more spectacular.”
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