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Mercedes F1 chief technical officer James Allison is confident that his technical team has found the root cause of the German-Anglo squad’s recent gearbox failures and can make the necessary changes to avoid its reappearance.
The Merc, or the Pirellis?Mattchu wrote:Seems pretty tough the Mercedes...
Surely if it's obviously a flexi-wing it'll be banned in no time.diego.liv wrote:F1analisitecnica.com usually is spot on with their technical analysis
Merc is trying to make the double T-wing to flex at a maximum point in order to create more rear downforce, creating a faster air flow that hits the rearwing.
On a sidenote, other italians at the track/commenting online were saying that the double-T was flexing "a lot"
How would flexing the wing help? Generally speaking there are two reasons to flex in F1, (1) to extend the geometry outside of the legality boxes e.g. front wing flexes closer to the ground, (2) flexing to reduce drag e.g. front wing flap reducing angle with speed.diego.liv wrote:F1analisitecnica.com usually is spot on with their technical analysis
Merc is trying to make the double T-wing to flex at a maximum point in order to create more rear downforce, creating a faster air flow that hits the rearwing.
On a sidenote, other italians at the track/commenting online were saying that the double-T was flexing "a lot"
Jesup, that was painful to read, it's so badly written that translators can do anything with it.kooleracer wrote:https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferra ... ff-878379/
According to the italian version of motorsport. Mercedes are due to release a update worth at least a full second.
dans79 wrote:kooleracer wrote:https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferra ... ff-878379/
According to the italian version of motorsport. Mercedes are due to release a update worth at least a full second.
IF the article is spot on, based on what i recall about physics it could be this waymikhak wrote:How would flexing the wing help? Generally speaking there are two reasons to flex in F1, (1) to extend the geometry outside of the legality boxes e.g. front wing flexes closer to the ground, (2) flexing to reduce drag e.g. front wing flap reducing angle with speed.
You can put the T-wing more or less where you want in terms of height so i don't see a benefit of flexing downwards. What about flexing rearwards to get closer to the rear wing, why would this increase downforce. If anything it would unload the rear wing.
The only way i see flexing to benefit is to reduce the angle of attack of the the element itself so you can have an aggressive aoa for downforce generation but lose the drag at higher speed.
