Juzh wrote: ↑07 Sep 2021, 10:34
zibby43 wrote: ↑07 Sep 2021, 04:27
And your point is? The RW is a very inefficient (i.e., draggy) form of downforce. The last thing I’d want to do at Monza is run any more RW than I absolutely have to.
Accordingly, the 2020 RW looks like a toothpick (on pole by 8 tenths).
2019 is the only wing that maybe looks a bit larger than what I would typically expect at Monza, but that’s the car that required downforce at all costs to work as a consequence of the FW changes.
Merc were running more wing everywhere that year.
Ferrari were on pole in 2019, also. That’s when they had the thirsty PU.
Dude, red bull ran toothpick wings and was still always slower on straights than mercedes powered cars. Only on the very top end were they starting to catch up with their zero drag approach. These very low wings quite obviously hurt them in corners. If you can't understand this then not much else to say.
Simply, if you have more power you can bolt on more wing because engine will compensate, and that's what mercedes and their customers did over the years.
Hmm Merc were faster on the straights? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the RB PU being inferior to the Merc unit in past years? Whether Renault or Honda?
No, no. I’m sure it was exclusively down to rear wing levels **at Monza** (which is the only circuit I’m discussing).
What did I say in my previous post that you could possibly disagree with?
The lone point I was trying to make was that Merc has never run tremendously more RW/downforce (relative to themselves at other circuits or relative to their competitors) at Monza.
I readily acknowledged they carried more downforce in 2019. But, ironically, that year, they did so DESPITE the PU being inferior to the Ferrari unit.
The Merc been arguably the most aerodynamically efficient car on the grid every single year except maybe 1, which is one of the reasons they don’t have to carry a stupid RW level in Monza.
DESPITE the fact that the PU can handle it. There’s simply no reason to, at **Monza** . . .
My apologies... Rookie mistake. I lost track of the thread I was in.
