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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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No. This straight thru tunnel only serves as a bypass now and does not enter the brakes. This was one of the suggested ways in addition to blocking the internal channel to the brakes that Mercedes could make their upright conform to the rules.
Sweet! I'm guessing fast (large radius) corners have little or negative Ackerman top optimize total front-end lateral grip, and slow (small radius) corners have lots of Ackerman to help drag the inside wheel (fore-aft) which helps rotate the car.ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 19:24Apparently the car is able to vary its Ackermann according to corner radius! DAS is just a part of a system which was introduced last year.
Source (Italian): https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-se ... n/4773020/
i thought ackerman steering IS varying the steering like this, progressively turning the inside wheel a bit more with more lock, what's new?ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 19:24Apparently the car is able to vary its Ackermann according to corner radius! DAS is just a part of a system which was introduced last year.
Source (Italian): https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-se ... n/4773020/
Ackermann is the difference in steering angle of the wheels, with the inside one turning in more than the outside usually. It is normally fixed in the steering geometry, on this car (and the W10) it is constantly variable according to the article.izzy wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 20:47i thought ackerman steering IS varying the steering like this, progressively turning the inside wheel a bit more with more lock, what's new?ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 19:24Apparently the car is able to vary its Ackermann according to corner radius! DAS is just a part of a system which was introduced last year.
Source (Italian): https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-se ... n/4773020/
yes that's what i said, it's varying the steering progressively, the inside more than the outside, that's just normal Ackerman they do it with the geometry, it doesn't need hydraulics. The translated article just says "adapt the convergence of the front wheels according to the radius of the curve" which is basic standard Ackerman - the more lock they put in, the bigger the angle differenceScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 20:52Ackermann is the difference in steering angle of the wheels, with the inside one turning in more than the outside usually. It is normally fixed in the steering geometry, on this car (and the W10) it is constantly variable according to the article.izzy wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 20:47i thought ackerman steering IS varying the steering like this, progressively turning the inside wheel a bit more with more lock, what's new?ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 19:24Apparently the car is able to vary its Ackermann according to corner radius! DAS is just a part of a system which was introduced last year.
Source (Italian): https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-se ... n/4773020/
Pretty much, since 2021 will in effect run under the same rules we are running in today. The ban will come with the rules change, which has now been moved to 2022.
