To be honest that Merc looks like a championship winning car and like someone alredy said , the car just look balanced.bill shoe wrote:I confess I'm still surprised that type of nose did not turn out to be the optimum aero solution. My "eye-rodynamic" analysis still rates it very highly in terms of air volume, if not aesthetics.dodds_turbo wrote:For those who need a reminder of what a horrendous looking nose looks like, let me just remind you of this:
http://i.imgur.com/MBVez8L.jpg
Last year for example Merc was ahead because of the PU , but the thing is that from what i have gathered Red Bull had the best chassis (about 0.1 sec engine adjusted), so the conclusion is that the difference yet again will come from the PU.
From my perspective Mercedes are confident that they will win both championships just by evolving the 2015 car , the problem with this being that evolving gives you less spectacular gains than for example a revolutionary design like Ferrari did.
Their bet is to start early on that 2017 car while adding bits and pieces to their 2016 car.
My calculation tell me that Mercedes are around 0.2 second ahead in race trim vs Ferrari , this means that they will probably the top dog in the first part of the season , but we will see on the second half because Ferrari has more space to maneuvre.