Mercedes W11 Speculation Thread

[Morteza]

[zibby43]

Hard to tell to be honest because the cars are so big these days. His hands look quite large compared to side of the nose overall.

I agree, the nose looks pretty similar to last years.

Also agreed. Looks the same size as last year.

I think we tend to forget how massive the cars are now, including the huge jump in size with 2019 FWs.

RB mechanic holding a FW, just to give a better indication of scale.

[Holm86]

And the tip of the nose last year was also pretty wide

[Just_a_fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQGgP9iXYAA ... ame=medium

That looks very different to last year's nose tip. The sides are parallel where last year's cut back inwards where the cape joined. Maybe the cape has been removed from the car for this year.

[SiLo]

Maybe we arent looking at it right, maybe that more rounded end of the nose has been shrunk to match the width of the rest of the nose further up from last year.

[Holm86]

A better look
It does look wider

[NathanOlder]

Any idea how wide last years nose was ? The start of that clip, the tape measure looks like its being used to mark the center of the nose and looks to be about 110mm so would be about 220mm wide in total ?

[De Jokke]

Atleast we already have a sexy nose!

[LM10]

I’m sure the Mercedes will look completely different to last year’s car and it will be the only car on the grid with a big concept change.
They probably came to the conclusion that with last year’s concept there was no significant performance gain possible anymore. There is no other explanation for such radical changes with just one season remaining before we witness major regulation changes.

[Holm86]

I’m sure the Mercedes will look completely different to last year’s car and it will be the only car on the grid with a big concept change.
They probably came to the conclusion that with last year’s concept there was no significant performance gain possible anymore. There is no other explanation for such radical changes with just one season remaining before we witness major regulation changes.

I agree, Mercedes concept was very well developed, and im sure they have hit a development wall with that concept.

[GPR ~A]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQGgP9iXYAA ... ame=medium

It appears that the round shape of the nose is gone.

[Just_a_fan]

They did state that they'd gone for a "downforce at all costs" approach last year. Perhaps they have pulled back a bit on that which allows/requires them to change the design a bit.

In a few short days we'll know...

[SiLo]

I think the changes won't be that big, the biggest one probably the movement of the crash structure in the sidepod, but it won't change the sidepod shape a great deal.

[wesley123]

I’m sure the Mercedes will look completely different to last year’s car and it will be the only car on the grid with a big concept change.
They probably came to the conclusion that with last year’s concept there was no significant performance gain possible anymore. There is no other explanation for such radical changes with just one season remaining before we witness major regulation changes.

The 2019 car was already quite a big departure.

The development wall isn't all that sure either; they essentially dropped development halfway the season because they were that far ahead.

I don't get why people are assuming radical design changes. The sidepod is a very logical development that can carry over to the next season.

[Holm86]

I’m sure the Mercedes will look completely different to last year’s car and it will be the only car on the grid with a big concept change.
They probably came to the conclusion that with last year’s concept there was no significant performance gain possible anymore. There is no other explanation for such radical changes with just one season remaining before we witness major regulation changes.

The 2019 car was already quite a big departure.

The development wall isn't all that sure either; they essentially dropped development halfway the season because they were that far ahead.

I don't get why people are assuming radical design changes. The sidepod is a very logical development that can carry over to the next season.

I don't agree, the philosophy of the W09 and W10 was very similar, of course the W10 was much more evolved and tightly trimmed.

Alone the fact that the W11 will have a totally different sidepod philosophy, means that this is not just an evolutuion.