thuggy:
Whoopsy:

https://www.planetf1.com/news/christian-horner-fia-porpoising-intervention/

https://www.planetf1.com/news/mercedes-shocked-fia-flexi-floor-hint/

Could it be that Horner again is using some bendy parts on the car, like last year's bendy wing?

 

Yup looking like it, RedBull and potentially Ferrari as well.  Genius of Adrian Newey if he foresaw the issue and engineered a passive fix.   Like I said they all play the game, Horner trying to position Mercedes as whiners trying to change rules, complaining about the second stay they put on, the whole time creating a smoke screen to new bendy bits that you couldn't see on his cars.  Its all part of the game as I said.

Im truly curious how much the teams budget in the budget cap era to investigating and analyzing each others cars and performance?  Like RedBull I believe were they ones who officially "protested" the Ferrari engine a fews years back, Mercedes on the RedBull Flexi wing, all required engineering cycles to find, analyze and the present.

 

Yes, he is the master of reading between the lines, hence why he is so good. If something isn't specified as black and white, he WILL see grey and try and paint 50 shades of grey out of it. 

F1 will miss him once he decided to hang up his boots. Or pen for that matters. Every other designers are just to rigid and not think outside the box enough. 

No sympathy for Mercedes, they thought outside enough to have a zero sidepod concept yet overlooked the floor. 

Newey, and in a way, Ferrari designers, realized a while ago that the floor will flex and they can use that to their advantage. So when the floor flexes, they provide the optimum downforce, in the Red Bull's case, but a tad too much in the Ferrari, hence they were bouncing quite hard. Mercedes designed theirs to run optimally when it's NOT flexing, so once they start flexing, the car becomes uncontrollable, or underivable in certain driver's words. 

 


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