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: Lewis Hamilton (44), Nico Rosberg (6)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
Odd, that's been on thd car since Spain...atanatizante wrote:Since Canada they have a new front brake fin, having an unique shape :
http://imgur.com/droL4PZ.jpg
And the story is here : http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-web ... t-fin.html
http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-web ... not-p.htmlatanatizante wrote:I read somewhere (sorry I can't recall where) that Lewis do much less simulator work nowadays and he mentioned that for Austria he just did some laps in order to try a new experimental throttle pedal ... anyone has more info?
This image from the Spanish GP during FP3 shows that you are correct:scarbs wrote:Odd, that's been on thd car since Spain...atanatizante wrote:Since Canada they have a new front brake fin, having an unique shape :
http://imgur.com/droL4PZ.jpg
And the story is here : http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-web ... t-fin.html
they are there to accelerate the air coming out of the engine cover, like they use on escape slides on airplanes, not directly for downforce but to keep the exit smallerSevach wrote:Has anyone figured out these Mercedes these wing shaped extensions of the Mercedes?
Nobody has copied it thus far...
Why aren't they shaped more like a downforce generating wing? effectively replacing the beam wing.
