mmred wrote: ↑17 May 2019, 15:27At low speed the behaviour is dominated by suspensions.... Red bull has indeed good aero and always had the best suspensionroon wrote: ↑17 May 2019, 04:07Unless it involves coarse geometry. Moving attachment points and resizing large components will incur monocoque or gearbox changes. Otherwise I agree. This is still an aero formula. It's why Red Bull have remained competitive despite their power units. If something's wrong with a car, there's a good chance it's the aero.
To add to the other post mentioning downforce at lower speed. I'll counter to the point about significant downforce at low speed by saying that a small downforce difference between two top teams that's significant at +150kph becomes too small to matter much at low speed, even if downforce is important at low speed. The differences in performance even when struggling with an aero issue are so small.
But to counter this counterpoint... low speed corners in F1 is only partially about apex speed. A big part of saving/losing time is about how quick the car is for all the rest of the corner.... much of which happens in the braking and acceleration before and after the actual corner. Has Red Bull's aero performance in recent years not shown most significantly in their braking performance? Famously demonstrated by Danny Ric's dive bombs.
Ferrari is highly expected to be worse than RB/Merc at Monaco this weekend... I'm surprised to hear this news. I've never seen in the last few years Ferrari to have so small chance at pole on a Tuesday before a race weekend. This car problem is big and real, and significant for low speed corners apparently.
