Now you'll see how much of a shit box that Merc really is, also the season is over till somebody gets a floor like red bull
The "vertical oscillations" depend on whether they are high frequency or low frequency. I think both Mercedes and ferrari have the same oscillation frequency now just that Mercedes have a higher volume of said oscillations.
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion yet.
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Agreed.
Possibly... also not beyond the realm of possibility that they tell 6 teams to raise the ride height and they all say nah we would rather not race
Mercedes did that themselves. They've made a bad car. Hard to have much sympathy for them when they made such a great car for the last eight years, good to see someone else step up.
That's too big of a change for next year. If they ever decide in it it will be 2 years away. I still think it can't happen without significant expanding of budgets.
A lot of teams are already pushing for that due to inflation
At least they will have something else to blame than themselves like it usually happens.
I agree with you.
I am glad that FIA have got involved, they had to, but also glad they have found a way to help with give some advantage back to Mercedes.
There are different types of active suspension, one could be implemented next season; real active suspensions, and adaptive or semi-active suspensions. The former is a more time consuming implementation than the latter.
Mercedes haven't developed a "bar car", thats a poor understanding of whats going on. As Martin Brundle said its an excellent car, bar the bouncing. They are having a terrible season by their high standards and they are third in the constructors 26 points behind ferrari. Not last like Williams. Thats a bad car.
From what others have said including Horner, The Merc is a fast car, the only problem is their bouncing and that could be because of the lack of wind tunnel time.
The bouncing is due to the core design of the car, I cant see how it can be called great car . Its a shitbox for their own expected standards. And yeah it is third fastest but that comes at a significant inconvenience and/or harm for the drivers. So it may be a good car but not when humans drive it.
With all due respect, Lewis is 30 points behind his teammate, I don't think with this years form he was ever in contention for a top. Except Russel, all drivers in the table ahead of him had 1, 2, or 3 DNFs so far, and he is still lots of points behind them(Russel is pretty close to top).
Don't think they have much choice. Bad idea to run a brand new engine with an old repaired turbo unit. Recipe for the turbo to break down and damage the new engine.
It certainly seems so.
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Why not? I still haven't seen evidence they favoured Max so blatantly that Perez isn't allowed to race him. Max just has more racepace than Perez.
Perez was clearly told over the radio not to fight. It doesn't get much clearer than that. No surprise after that he just cruises to second place instead of pushing the car to the absolute limits
Checo's tires were done.
The difference is that lewis is doing all the experimental car work with Mercedes. He apparently didnt leave Baku circuit till 2am loval time last sunday. Thats with incredible back pain, he stayed on to analyse the data with the engineers. Mercedes are smart in using lewis for all of the experimental stuff on track and leaving george with the stable (for them) car as a reference benchmark. But all people see is the surface that george is scoring more points than lewis.
Mate you live in a parellel world
. When a driver is told "no fighting" when in 1st position he definitely has no chance of a WDC.Thanks for that post. Interesting. Still dont get why Mercedes havent cut away the end of the floor closest to the rear tyres as ferrari and redbull have both done. Ferrari copying RB by adding a "ice skate" to that section.
Let's totally forget about race pace, tires etc. Max was gonna pass him either way, better to do it cleanly.Mate you live in a parellel world
