Vanja #66 wrote: ↑12 May 2017, 08:05
SR71 wrote: ↑12 May 2017, 06:40
I'm no stranger to making counterintuitive statements here on F1T, so here goes my latest
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Again, not saying it's a dirty air solution - my gut just tells me they handle dirty air better than most commentators first impressions.
It is counter intuitive, but here's my view on why. In dirty air you don't loose vortices, they just don't work as expected (their strength decreases) so when you have 15 of them (as you say) all 15 of them will suffer. Some more, some less, but all will suffer. It's not like 3 will fail to work and others will be OK...
In that sense, for me, this is Mercedes trying to get back their previous full advantage in qualy and their previous full advantage in first laps of the race. That's how they dominated previous 3 seasons and it makes much more sense to try and achieve that again than going into the unknown and develop the car to be less sensitive to dirty air...
Agree of course that they will not develop a car to be less sensitive to dirty air on purpose. I feel it is a knock on effect of this biological theme.
Additionally, it's not the sheer number of points creating or stimulating vertices, but the distance between them that I believe makes them less susceptible to dirty air.
In my opinion they carry each-other better, one will pick up where another looses efficacy. They all may loose a bit in dirty air but it will be fractional compared to the loss 3 points would lose.