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Mercedes AMG F1 W04

Team: Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoff Willis (Technology Director), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Ron Meadows (SD), Matthew Deane (CM), Ross Brawn (TP), Nick Fry (CEO), Toto Wolff (Exec Director), Andy Cowell (MD of powertrain),
Drivers: Nico Rosberg (9), Lewis Hamilton (10)
Team name: Mercedes AMG Petronas

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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:43 am

Craig Scarborough ‏@ScarbsF1
Mercedes W04: tidied nose, coanda pods, pushrod front susp, revised roll hoop & vanes on the splitter
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:47 am

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What is this? The normal sidepod 'cooling fan thing' fit's the entire shape and size of the opening doesn't it?
This looks like the brake duck blower, i.e, smaller! What would this be cooling?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:49 am

KeiKo403 wrote:What is this? The normal sidepod 'cooling fan thing' fit's the entire shape and size of the opening doesn't it?
This looks like the brake duck blower, i.e, smaller! What would this be cooling?

That fan feeds a duct that curved around to cool the SECU
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:49 am

elf341 wrote:It really does not look very different to W03 final spec. Are the sidepods even changed?

I'm hoping that they have a frong wing upgrade - still sporting BGP-style endplates.


You do realize they had a new Fw last year with new endplates ?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:51 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that nose was very low to the tarmac...looked as if it was going to scrape!
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:52 am

Maybe they will have a heavily updated version for the final test like Red Bull last year, perhaps this first test is to try and get on top of the coanda and other issues.
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:56 am

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:56 am

Doesn't look good enough to me!
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:57 am

Anyone else notice a thin piece of CF connecting from the Monkey seat to the underside of the RW bucket?

What would this be for?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:59 am

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:59 am

Yeah i noticed that, at the minute I'm assuming its something to do with the filming?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:00 pm

Huntresa wrote:
elf341 wrote:It really does not look very different to W03 final spec. Are the sidepods even changed?

I'm hoping that they have a frong wing upgrade - still sporting BGP-style endplates.


You do realize they had a new Fw last year with new endplates ?


Ah having checked just now you're right about the new 2012 endplates. For some strange reason I thought they were essentially unchanged. Certainly, they had been for near-on three years:

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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:05 pm

What would be the benefit/point of that small thin piece of Carbon fibre that connects the Monkey seat to the Rear wings lower bucket?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:07 pm

The extra opening in the roll hoop for gear-box cooling is gone?
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Post Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:09 pm

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When people say that you can follow the lines of the RedBull like the air is...
Adrian Newey is "feeling" the path of the air and he can design it that way..

From the looks of it... it seems like all the designers at Merc felt was the pain in the ass from the last seasons results...

This thing looks ugly... But well... we can still hope for a good pace!
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