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Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director - Business), Paddy Lowe (Executive Director - Technical), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Niki Lauda (Chairman), Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoffrey Willis (Technology Director), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Dane (CM)
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (44), Nico Rosberg (6)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
If those are vortex generators, then, it's pretty safe to say it would separate better(sort of an air curtain) the airflow under the nose from the airflow of the FW but would they really want a vortex at such point?GrizzleBoy wrote: If you look at the inner most part of the FW flaps from directly head on, they've always looked more like vortex generators to me the way they have such sharp tips that look as though they're meant to be cutting through the air instead of passing smoothly through it.
Having the high AOA could be for stronger vortex creation as the air would be more violently "disturbed".
Also, if you wanted to stop the low pressure area directly behind the rest of the front wing sucking in/messing with air from around the nose area that feeds the rest of the car downwind, wouldn't having a strong vortex coming off the tips of the inner FW be a good idea as a vortex of air is less easily disturbed than a "flat" stream, no?
Having one element tip stacked on top of and behind the other would also make the overall vortex stronger assuming the individual vortices work together.
Hopefully at least one part of that was correct/relevant.
/armchair aero
I wonder if their much shorter nose is part of this. Maybe there is a relationship there; maybe the short nose allows or requires them to do this where others with "conventitional" noses can't or don't need to.Artur Craft wrote:It always caught my eyes, since last year, how Mercedes is the only team with a FW shaped like this:
http://s12.postimg.org/hngeiemf1/W06_jerez.jpg
You can quickly compare with others here:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 42#p557542
I wonder if that isn't one thing which they could improve on W06(or is everybody wrong or Mercedes found a trick here)?
They run the inner part of the flaps with too much AoA(that's why there is that curve/fold). I can't think of possible benefits of sending airflow that high early on as it's an airflow which you would, supposedly, want to directly reach the undercut, and then, cokebottle.
On the outer flap, it's understandable as you will need high AoA at some point in the FW(afterall, downforce is needed) and there seems to be the most efficient place as it helps decrease the drag around the front tires vortices.
You can say: "They have CFD/wind tunnel and all the resources, so they know far better than any armchair on the internet" which is perfectly true. But so does every other team and nobody else does this with their FW.
Sorry if this was discussed already.
What's so surprising? Everyone's acting like rosberg didn't do 150 yesterday, and merc cars in general doing very good mileage.Diesel wrote:Hamilton's now over the 50-lap mark... Jesus.
... he's actually on his 70th nowDiesel wrote:Hamilton's now over the 50-lap mark... Jesus.
What's log exhaust anyway?ojlopez wrote:I was wondering if Mercedes "temporarily" ditched the log exhaust just to mess up everyone's heads? I mean, everybody must be thinking "Yeah, Mercedes did great last season with a log exhaust, we must do some research on that". And now Mercedes is not using it.
I would like to see everyone's faces if Mercedes runs a log exhaust when season starts.
The One you can see on the Picture in the Article. Saves tons of Space but costs a little Performance. It just looks like a Straight Log rather than 3 Individual Pipes coming out of the Cylinder Head.Aaronque wrote: What's log exhaust anyway?
#aerogollumturbof1 wrote: YOU SHALL NOT......STALLLLL!!!
