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Who will win the 2022 Formula 1 constructor's title ?

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Interesting from Ross Brawn about teams asking about additional strengthening of the floor in certain areas, and about FIA and F1, allowing increse in minimum weight limit to allow for the stays.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
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.
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Seen from the front, there's actually some decent sized openings there, they're just lower down and a bit vertical in configuration. That Merc looks awful on track though, much worse porpoising than the other teams. The floor is sending showers of sparks up as it bounces off the track, horrible.
 
Mr Jack said:
Seen from the front, there's actually some decent sized openings there, they're just lower down and a bit vertical in configuration. That Merc looks awful on track though, much worse porpoising than the other teams. The floor is sending showers of sparks up as it bounces off the track, horrible.
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I wonder whether they’ll go back to the other version of the car. I’ve not seen lap times. They could still be sandbagging though.
 
maun said:
No doubt mercs new pod design will be banned by this time next week, once a couple of others realise its quicker and they can't copy they'll cry to FIA who will ban it.
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Ross Brawn already said he cannot immediately see anything overly wrong with it.
 
It does look terrible, in a straight line and around the corners too (turn 10 is repeatedly catching Hamilton out).


Entai said:
Ross Brawn already said he cannot immediately see anything overly wrong with it.
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He did say that the crash structure wasn't in the spirit of the regulations - the very words they used when they said they might ban anything under.


Lopéz said:
They're completely different, are you looking at the right pictures?
The new look reminds me of the Lambo 291. Wonder if the performance will be similar :D
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Yeah the inlets are somewhere between the (impressive, if rubbish) 291 and the (impressive) Jordan 195.
 
Been a long time since I seen the floor of the cars properly scraping against the road.

Are the planks still under the cars? Or is this down to flexing, cars leaning into corners?

edit: just checked, still got a plank, 10mm thick, they're actually a lot thinner than I though.
 
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maun said:
Hope so, F1 more enjoyable when teams are innovative with the rules.
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Ross Brawn: “There is no doubt that the Mercedes concept is something we didn’t anticipate. It’s a very extreme interpretation of the regulations and inevitably there is going to be a lot of debate.”

Who knows, it might not be quicker anyway.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
I wonder whether they’ll go back to the other version of the car. I’ve not seen lap times. They could still be sandbagging though.
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Hamilton's sitting third in the timings (not they mean much) and did a decent number of laps this morning before I started watching. They were in the garage a long time though so perhaps they put some new parts on that just aren't working?

Horner being very coy in an interview with Sky.
 
this_is_gav said:
He did say that the crash structure wasn't in the spirit of the regulations - the very words they used when they said they might ban anything under.
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When??

Sam Collins explained it earlier, the side crash structure has not been changed or altered at all.

All teams use a standardised side impact crash struture, built and supllied by Red Bull Technology.
 
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