Poll: F1 2022 - Pre-season testing and discussion

[Psycho Ned]

Least it'll give Mick a decent yardstick to race against if they're trundling round at the back again. Beating Mazepin showed us nothing of his potential talent!

 

[MM-Seat]

Mercedes looking to run quite extreme slim pods tomorrow by all rumours.

I love rule change

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Mercedes looking to run quite extreme slim pods tomorrow by all rumours.

I love rule change

Still some sidepod but my god there's nothing there almost

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNd0LHnXEAYoA7p?format=jpg&name=medium

 

[Stumble Bum]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1501809645488328706

 

[Stumble Bum]

 

[Slam62]

Lol, that's more like it

 

[JBeck]

Wow

 

[Entai]

Hamilton's Merc porpoiseing horrendously

 

[Mr Jack]

Okay, I apologize to everyone I told the Merc thing was a rumour. Wow!

 

[this_is_gav]

Yup, fair play Mercedes, fair play.

 

[SoliD]

Horner moaning already.

 

[englishpremier]

What's all the excitement about the side pods? They look similar to the ones at the last test to me.

 

[Junglist]

The absolute mad designers did it.

 

[Kenai]

What's all the excitement about the side pods? They look similar to the ones at the last test to me.

Notsureifserious?

 

[englishpremier]

Notsureifserious?

Well all those going on about it including BBC haven't shown a side by side photo yet.

 

[this_is_gav]

What's all the excitement about the side pods? They look similar to the ones at the last test to me.

From F1 Technical (I'll link rather than hotlink or rehost): https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1040445#p1040445

 

[Mr Jack]

What's all the excitement about the side pods? They look similar to the ones at the last test to me.

They've essential created a side wing and got rid of the side pod altogether.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Wow, that’s extreme. That won’t be easy to copy. Probably makes the floor more effective too. How are they cooling the car? Red bull will be up in arms.

 

[Mr Jack]

It's really great see the sheer variety of design in these cars on track. The differences are really striking.

Horner moaning already.

Red Bull have put out a statement denying he said anything. Make of that what you will.

Edit: And now they've changed their position to that they've "made no official comment" on the Mercedes. Horner did say it, but they don't want to associate themselves with having said it or something. Weird, tbh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1501852717001711622

@chrismscotland : This is the original source (in German)

 

[CaptainRAVE]

What's all the excitement about the side pods? They look similar to the ones at the last test to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/c...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf