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Today's unveiled Mercedes AMG F1 W09 resembles a lot its sucessful predecessor, the championship winning W08. And this is no coincidence, as team boss Toto Wolff reveals. However, there are some interesting changes to come this year with the new car.
Really interesting!
Hot race setup...
Maybe trying to direct the flow in front of the vertical fin more vertically (by keeping the air trapped until closer to the fin) in order to improve extraction of the air on the rear side?
The Ferrari engines have been spewing since testing, when they fire up it's like an old two stroke billowing smoke everywhere. Lots of seepage somewhere in the system.Sierra117 wrote: ↑10 Apr 2018, 20:46I'm not a trained engineer so I'm prolly gonna say weird stuff but it is a bit of an anti climax to see the car isn't as fast as was made to believe in the reports. I thought it would blitz past in Bahrain with the long straights and the tighter body of the car without needing to use higher engine modes.
Instead we have Ferrari who got pole and the win, having better mechanical grip and being gentler on tyres while incorporating Merc's long wheelbase design. Hopefully the Barcelona updates are good.
Btw what was that oil coming out from the back of the Ferraris? Is that rerouted to avoid the whole oil burning thing? Shouldn't a car spraying oil into the road making it slippery be illegal?
Makes you wonder how they still meet the oil use regs.Maritimer wrote: ↑10 Apr 2018, 22:10The Ferrari engines have been spewing since testing, when they fire up it's like an old two stroke billowing smoke everywhere. Lots of seepage somewhere in the system.Sierra117 wrote: ↑10 Apr 2018, 20:46I'm not a trained engineer so I'm prolly gonna say weird stuff but it is a bit of an anti climax to see the car isn't as fast as was made to believe in the reports. I thought it would blitz past in Bahrain with the long straights and the tighter body of the car without needing to use higher engine modes.
Instead we have Ferrari who got pole and the win, having better mechanical grip and being gentler on tyres while incorporating Merc's long wheelbase design. Hopefully the Barcelona updates are good.
Btw what was that oil coming out from the back of the Ferraris? Is that rerouted to avoid the whole oil burning thing? Shouldn't a car spraying oil into the road making it slippery be illegal?
