I didn't remember the Red Bull reverted to twin keel!f1316 wrote:So, whether a twin keel or not, it does seem as if Ferrari have worked to lower the bottom wishbone; meanwhile, Mercedes and TR have raised the upper wishbone. Is this, in some way, a different way to try and do the same thing - I.e open up set up possibilities for a new type of tyre?
Interestingly, in 2007 - when having to deal with the (to them) new demands of a Bridgestone tyres - Red Bull resurrected the twin keel:
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/56506
At the time, as scarbs' article explains, that was about making the front weight biased tyres work; you'd think that these new tyres are very rear weight biased, but I can't help thinking that there's something in the idea of going to this kind of suspension set up (if indeed they have) and a very new type of tyre.
As for the SF70H, I don't see the lower wishbone being that low. The upper one's front pickup comes near to the nose top surface, and a look at f1 cars shows the lower pickup is unlikely to be much closer to the upper one than this :
Indeed, I think that the only way of having higher superposed wishbones (i.e, maintaining an acceptable distance between them) is the Merc / Toro Rosso route. The question is : did the other teams discard this solution, or simply they didn't evaluate it?
