dylan@lemmy.ml to Formula 1@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoRed Bull question Mercedes ‘B-spec’ progresswww.speedcafe.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down11
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minus-squareitsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 year agoNewey has history with ground effect. He studied it an uni, he implemented it in the Williams FW07, and recently the AM Valkyrie. In a nutshell, he’s the best for this current specification of F1 car.
minus-squareGuyDudeman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoBut surely he doesn’t have some secret… and we all got a real good look at Perez’ floor at Monaco, didn’t we?
minus-squareitsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIt ain’t a secret now haha. Their design is more mature than the rest of the grids. That’s it really.
minus-squareGuyDudeman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHahaha… Do you think Mercedes worked on/replaced their floors between Monaco and Barcelona, since they had an extra week?
minus-squarebogdoomy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoi really doubt it, you can’t really swap in a random new floor and call it a day, it has to fit in with the rest of the aero philosophy of the car
Newey has history with ground effect. He studied it an uni, he implemented it in the Williams FW07, and recently the AM Valkyrie.
In a nutshell, he’s the best for this current specification of F1 car.
But surely he doesn’t have some secret… and we all got a real good look at Perez’ floor at Monaco, didn’t we?
It ain’t a secret now haha. Their design is more mature than the rest of the grids. That’s it really.
Hahaha… Do you think Mercedes worked on/replaced their floors between Monaco and Barcelona, since they had an extra week?
i really doubt it, you can’t really swap in a random new floor and call it a day, it has to fit in with the rest of the aero philosophy of the car
Makes sense.