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On the back of their partnership announcement with Ineos, Mercedes AMG F1 have today revealed the new car livery for the 2020 Formula One season. The new partnership sees the new silver arrows featuring red highlights for the first time since Mercedes returned to F1 in 2012.
They had an idea that Maybe they were sandbagging, but not that they were making a conscious effort to disguise specifics of the cars that were valuable to them. Driving a bit slower to hide pace is obvious, but they way they did it and the reasons for it were very specific and done to give them an advantage and mislead the rest of the grid.
Since 2014, arm chair experts here kept putting down the Chassis strength of Mercedes cars, claiming Red Bull had the best chassis and they lacked a good power unit. Thanks to John Owen, he really confirm in the article that some folks were right in pushing those arm chair experts back on their claims. Their cars couldn't have been seconds a lap faster, purely on PU alone, but no, some believed, it was all engine. He really mocks, not just those arm chair experts here, but all those so called pundits on print and digital media who peddled the same lines and Mercedes was happy with that!
They were led that way by Horner etc. who kept shouting that if only they had a better PU they'd win the title. Horner kept saying that Red Bull had the best chassis and aero and the media/pundits bought it hook, line and sinker.
I'd love to hear Horner respond to this now. To see what he says about the Mercedes being a dominnat chassis with dominant aero to go with the PU.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Nov 2020, 13:35They were led that way by Horner etc. who kept shouting that if only they had a better PU they'd win the title. Horner kept saying that Red Bull had the best chassis and aero and the media/pundits bought it hook, line and sinker.
Mercedes just kept quiet and kept winning.
McLaren fell for the same thing when they had the Honda engine, thinking it was the only thing holding them back.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Nov 2020, 13:35They were led that way by Horner etc. who kept shouting that if only they had a better PU they'd win the title. Horner kept saying that Red Bull had the best chassis and aero and the media/pundits bought it hook, line and sinker.
Mercedes just kept quiet and kept winning.
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Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Nov 2020, 13:35They were led that way by Horner etc. who kept shouting that if only they had a better PU they'd win the title. Horner kept saying that Red Bull had the best chassis and aero and the media/pundits bought it hook, line and sinker.
Mercedes just kept quiet and kept winning.
Its fair to say there is a different dynamic there as Mercedes are one team with chassis/engine and you can't call out your own. However, even though Honda and RBR are 'separate' and just partners, that certainly doesn't make it ok.djones wrote: ↑09 Nov 2020, 11:34Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Nov 2020, 13:35They were led that way by Horner etc. who kept shouting that if only they had a better PU they'd win the title. Horner kept saying that Red Bull had the best chassis and aero and the media/pundits bought it hook, line and sinker.
Mercedes just kept quiet and kept winning.
Exactly this. Every single race without fail one of the Redbull team is on the radio trying to make a point of the engine. Even the last race there was something like "your faster everywhere Max, its just 0.5 on the straights your losing".