wuzak wrote:bhall II wrote:djos wrote:Good point, the slanted rear wing is still ugly but I'd forgotten how good the McLaren looked with those barge boards. The Ferrari does look good too but I'm not convinced yet that the 2017 solutions with be as nice. Happy to be wrong tho.
Would it make things easier if I told you that the shapes of the components - not just the increased size - will bring performance gains? That it's entirely possible, if not probable, that the new rules are going to make the cars significantly quicker than anyone bargained for?
It is the usual way of things that the teams will find more downforce than the regulators expect them to have. It has happened every time they reduced downforce, so I expect it to be the same with increased downforce.
Good point.
I´m looking forward to see how fast are 2017 cars, but I´m afraid with current modifications, cars might be too fast!
Wings, floor, diffusers, tires, PU.... there are too many changes for anyone (let alone FIA) to guess what will be the real improvement. Engineers always go much further than legislators and that´s with simple modifications, but 2017 modifications will be massive.
Take 2016 times as an example. No rule modifications, and laptimes have been reduced significantly. Now imagine without development restrictions for the PU, add to that higher diffusers, wider tires, wider and lower RW, wider FW....
Knowing FIA, FOM, etc. I´d bet they will understimate the modifications dramatically, and cars will be much much faster than they expect. But that would be great for us, so for first time I´m hoping they really mess it up