Juzh wrote:
1:28 CH reckons 2 seconds quicker with a DDD on an RB6 over an early season RB5 without one.
Early season RB5, yes I could definitely see a two second difference to a mid to late season RB6. Now, a Late season RB5 with DDD to early season RB6? I do not see 2 seconds but I could see a second or so. RB6 had so many differences to RB5 in a sense that the car capitalized on the DDD better than any other car, the double deck was built into the chassis for crying out loud, massive.
Point is this is not apples to apples, none of these 2013 contenders have a DDD, EBD; an 'X' factor if you will, that can be further developed to yield a second difference from late 2012. I could be very wrong so please hold me to it later though haha.
That and the fact that we have everyone under the sun (myself included) saying we won't see a Barcelona pole time breaking the 1:20 marker this year. I believe a mid 1:20 will be possible which is about a second quicker than one year prior. Using that sort of qualy timing assumption marker is a ledger, one can estimate teams possibly finding about a tenth per month meaning even if they were working double duty during the winter, a half a second is tough amongst the top teams. And of course all of this hinges on the fact that these teams are relying on their wind tunnel and CFD findings to correlate perfectly to the track, which they often don't.