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Sandpit Steve said:
CT05 Nose Cone said:
Concept doesn't look bad, hopefully the regulations will force the teams to actually paint them as well.
We can all blame Toto Wolff for that one, when he did the interview about weight saving and said that they asked everyone in the team how they could save weight over the winter - and the winners by far were the marketing department, who managed to go from 6kg to 3.5kg of paint and stickers, as the engineers were saving a few grams here and a few grams there. Now everyone’s on the ‘let’s not paint the car if we can avoid it’ train.
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marine boy said:
Sandpit Steve said:
CT05 Nose Cone said:
Concept doesn't look bad, hopefully the regulations will force the teams to actually paint them as well.
We can all blame Toto Wolff for that one, when he did the interview about weight saving and said that they asked everyone in the team how they could save weight over the winter - and the winners by far were the marketing department, who managed to go from 6kg to 3.5kg of paint and stickers, as the engineers were saving a few grams here and a few grams there. Now everyone’s on the ‘let’s not paint the car if we can avoid it’ train.
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Big Nanas said:
The PU specs were agreed a couple of years ago. The same 1.6 V6.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/more-ef...
Thanks! Missed that one. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/more-ef...
Drivers not impressed so far - https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-making-2...
Sandpit Steve said:
Those end pieces of the front wings look like they’ll give an instant puncture to any other car’s tyre that comes close to them.
Exactly this. At first glance they look like the old narrower front wings and you think "thank god, no more annoying front wing damage", but then you see those things.... sigh.TheDeuce said:
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Cold said:
The 10mm width reduction will almost certainly mean Monaco will become an overtaking fest.
Try again...C'mon now, we've had the metric system nearly 60 years
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Wonder why Ross and co couldnt see the problems the last regs would cause.
A narrower front wing would have avoided all that outwash nonsense and also reduced them breaking off in a 2 car battle.
No wonder he cleared off double quick after they hit the track and bounced all over the place in a pretty stupid fashion.
A narrower front wing would have avoided all that outwash nonsense and also reduced them breaking off in a 2 car battle.
No wonder he cleared off double quick after they hit the track and bounced all over the place in a pretty stupid fashion.
A slightly more positive take on it by Mark Hughes
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/uncate...
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/uncate...
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