Red Bull question Mercedes ‘B-spec’ progress
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Horner's gotta get the dig in somewhere, doesn't he?
What gets me is just how dominant Verstappen is. How is it possible that their car is THAT MUCH faster than everyone else's, even without DRS? It can't just be aerodynamics, can it?
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.
it seems his preferred car setup (strong front, light back) and his driving style with it (he does many small corrections - super visible when you look on older F3 videos).
here is the video I took so this from ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9yP6BSyTU
I did know that he prefers a other setup than Perez, but I didn't know to what extent and what difference that made. As this driving style is second nature for him by now, and it really seems to be faster, I don't think someone could learn this later on life - at least not as good.
edit: forgot to add, besides the floor of the RedBull, to which every other team said, that they are more than just a bit behind, they also managed to give their DRS more power than just reducing drag. they guide the air in some way, that, with the open flap, they get even more speed of of that - probably introducing done vortexes to destroy the air stream for other downforce elements, but I'm just guessing
Based on how other teams reacted to the RB floor in monaco, it really could be mostly better aero. The Honda PU is also likely the best one on the grid currently, but it's not by a large margin.
Interesting. So do you think Mercedes made major modifications to their floor after monaco?
No. The upgrades bought to all cars are published by the FIA.
Here's an article covering the last race
Weird - that article is displaying weird for me. I can't see the list.
funny that RedBull writes about their diffuser change, that it's inspired by a competitor
I'd expect nothing less tbh. All F1 teams are big old copy cats.
It’s possible. Every team will be trying to copy what they can from it, if they have the budget left and if it’ll actually work with their cars concept.