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Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director), James Allison (Technical Director), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Aldo Costa (Technical advisor), Mike Elliot (Technology Director), Mark Ellis (PD), Geoffrey Willis (Director of Digital Engineering Transformation), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (Trackside Engineering Director), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Deane (CM), Loic Serra (HVD), John Owen (CD), Ashley Way (DCD), Rob Thomas (COO), Loic Serra (Performance Director), Jarrod Murphy (HA), Eric Blandin (CA)
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (44), Valtteri Bottas (77), Stoffel Vandoorne (reserve), Esteban Gutierrez (reserve)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
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Not expecting the team that has got a dominant car for 7 straight years, has the biggest budget and biggest staff size to suddenly screw up.
The longer wheelbase of the Mercedes doesn't play much of a role. Wheelbase changes are generally made by lengthening/shortening the gearbox casing as far as I'm aware. If we compare the front of the side-pod to rear face of the engine (estimate) volume, the Mercedes is still more tightly packaged.Blackout wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 12:14Mercs sidepods and rear bodywok never impressed me because their car is 17 meter long since 2017. So their sidepods look much smaller and thinner than they really are, on that stretch car. But what's quite impressive now is that this RBish bodywork almost completely wrap the radiators even at the back. There is barely space for the air to exit them.
We nead a rear 3/4 view
https://sf.viepratique.fr/wp-content/up ... -w11_4.jpg
Mercedes appears to have done a far better job of the front under-cut than I initially gave them credit for. The distance between the widest part of the monocoque and the narrowest part of the side-pod is potentially the smallest of the three. Both the Ferrari and Red Bull have greater vertical space however, with the Red Bull likely being best due to the narrowest of the cooling inlets.atanatizante wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 13:22https://postimages.org/
Not the best side by side pictures (especially from Ferrari side) but I think you guys can figure out what every team has done with their sidepods and rear car area ...
Maybe someone could give as a better picture and detailed explanations, comparing and stuff...
6 years.Pyrone89 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 13:22Basically what we are looking at here is a car that has the best of RB, Ferrari and the W10 combined. Unless they made a screw-up somewhere (and Mercedes does not do that in design, they reserve their blunders for 1 race a year) this car is going to at least challenge for the title again or more likely be the car to beat like the past 7 years.
As much as you can help constantly (almost every other post) repeating the claims that Mercedes have had a dominant car since 2014, this actually isn't the case, but we'll leave that for another thread.
You are very welcome! I agree. Somers has great content on his social media (Twitter, YouTube), and appears occasionally on the Missed Apex Tech Time Podcast (which are also can't-miss episodes).izzy wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 12:32Thanks, it's a nice summary isn't it, and a new f1 word (for me): 'face area'zibby43 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 07:03Matthew Somerfield (@SomersF1) on the W11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawIxugA_Lw&t=2s
Yes, and biggest staff. Dont have direct link but believe it was researched some time ago by Formula Money. Quite a big gap to RBR even adjusting for engine spendingFemi wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 19:50Do Merc really have the biggest budget considering Ferrari have a $80mil year-on-year headstart?