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I heard Merc updated FW, RW and engine cover / rear end for this race - the latter certainly looks a bit tighter, is this all correct?

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tranquility2k4 wrote:I heard Merc updated FW, RW and engine cover / rear end for this race - the latter certainly looks a bit tighter, is this all correct?
Rear wing endplates are a high downforce evolution on the ones seen from Spa/Monza, with a large leading edge slot and the three slits along the bottom edge.

No new front wing but the sidepods have been updated slightly. There's a new bodywork hoop behind the upper wishbone which no longer attaches to the floor.

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Chene_Mostert wrote:
SiLo wrote:I expect Mercedes to top the timesheet in all the sessions in Japan. I'd be surprised if that wasn't just a one off because they completely missed the mark with setup.
Suzuka FP1:
Exactly this kind of over confidence that lost them the last weekend...
Probably not, and the the rain kind of screwed a lot of the running up. But as soon as it was dry... look where they are.
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Suzuka - Qualifying

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Mercedes F1 W06 Hybrid - rear-wing endplate changes

Mercedes were back on form in Japan, where they continued to add developments to their car, among them this new endplate design on the rear wing.

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© Giorgio Piola

The inset drawing shows the endplate the team had used all season up until Suzuka. The main difference on the new version is the much longer vertical slot on the endplate’s leading edge (main drawing, lower right arrow - contrast with inset drawing, lower right arrow). The rest of the wing is based on the design used in Bahrain, also shown inset, with cuts in the flap where it meets the endplate (upper left arrow) and a small gurney flap on its exit edge.

Via Formula1.com
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Thinner compressor intake duct in 2015
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Blackout wrote:Thinner compressor intake duct in 2015
http://cdn.f1i.com/wp-content/uploads/2 ... e-1bis.jpg
Doesn't look any different in size to me compared to the 2014 photos, except it's going from round to square after the bend. But why is there a Renault engine next to it with a circle around, what looks like the mounting point for some pump or sensor?

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Jolle wrote:
Blackout wrote:Thinner compressor intake duct in 2015
http://cdn.f1i.com/wp-content/uploads/2 ... e-1bis.jpg
Doesn't look any different in size to me compared to the 2014 photos, except it's going from round to square after the bend. But why is there a Renault engine next to it with a circle around, what looks like the mounting point for some pump or sensor?
The image is from the article below:

http://www.f1i.com/z-flux-rss/exclusif- ... en-images/

Which seems to be some kind of comparison, I guess they just linked without altering it.

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PlatinumZealot wrote:It is the hydraulics i feel. Someone screwd up the settings. Mercedes hydraulics like the frics is set up on a track by track basis. So maybe somewhere somebody left the monza setting in place....


FRIC systems are banned since mid last year. All the teams run left/right interconnected hydraulic links.

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In my previous post i put disclaimer that i will only call it frics full well knowing that it us not front rear inteconnected. For lack of a better Just refering the remnant of the same frics system.
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Surely just better to call it interlinked or interconnected suspension then, seeing as FRIC is Front-Rear-Interconnected
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nice and exceptional

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https://twitter.com/SomersF1/status/650704609393160192 Apperently Mercedes has small tubercles running under the second but last wing element.
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Novel idea. This is a more useful application than Mclaren's on the rear wing.
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