zibby43 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2019, 06:36
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The article also states.
"One thing is certain: the power advantage that Ferrari has on the straights this season is enormous. The competition speaks of up to 55 hp (40 kW). Converted in times Ferrari wins on track parts with many straights up to 0.8 seconds. That's what you say, for example, Renault and Mercedes. "The advantage is absurd and legally impossible to accomplish because the technology is already very exhausted," states a high-ranking member of a Ferrari competition team. Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto knows the allegations and holds against it: "the projection is not so large, as is claimed."
Due to fuel, they could gain 25-30HP on each time they are allowed by the rule, as we could see on both Renault and recently Honda side. But the other 25-30HP could be down to both being a slippery car and a more powerful MGU-H, which could harvest beyond that 80kW into a presumably 90-95kW figure and that`s a 12-15% increase, though I don`t fully understand why could not be managed to get 120kW after 6 years of continuous perfecting the technology ...
Then we should take into account that maybe Ferrari`s philosophy is more towards the qualy hence how to reach max. HP output thus their ICE consumption is something more relaxed. In contrast, Merc is all about efficiency and race pace, as Toto told us, a statement we should consider that is not the classical PR - BS ... We didn`t hear that in the race Merc drivers need to save fuel as Ferrari drivers do. In qualy it doesn`t matter for the fact that they use 2.5kg fuel per 90 sec at a 100kg/h fuel flow rate but in the race every 10kg worth 3 to 4 tenths a lap. And thus Ferrari needs to use more fuel during the race and things are getting even-steven as they say
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And another factor is cooling. Merc acknowledged that 2019 car design has had a major flaw regarding this matter and their update in Germany was mainly in order to correct that. But it was not enough and this led to hampered them further regarding spec.2 and 3 PU potential gains, both regarding ICE but most of all from the fuel side which is more considerable these days (on the entire year I`ve just hear one sigle fuel 18HP gain in Hungary, had I`m not wrong). That`s why Lewis said it was a year with poor results on this area. So they couldn`t run their ICE harder coz they didn`t have the proper cooling and the main reason was they were more focused on bolting more downforce on the car. But it was too late in the season to make drastic changes and it`s something that would be surely addressed on 2020 car ...
