2 reasons.strad wrote:??????
WHY would you want the whole car to rise up?
Its normal to see them fiddling with brake bias a lot. Between launch and the first corner? a bit odd but I would think not too unusual. you would normally adjust that while you're waiting for the rest of the grid to assemble which can be quite a long time if you're sitting in P3.Gridlock wrote:Is it normal to see drivers adjusting brake bias between their launch and the first corner? Schuey did, and he spends a lot of his lap fiddling with it. If indeed its brake bias that's being adjusted down by his left knee...
He also definitely deactivates DRS early into mid-speed corners, before the braking point, presumably to re-attach airflow somewhere. This kind of messes with my assumption that the FW stalling is designed solely to allow more progressive and earlier activation of DRS out of corners and suggests it bestows a straight line advantage too, no?
It's a fascinating system, and I'm not convinced its just MB running it already.
What if the start is with a lot of rear wheel spin and the driver thinks stopping for the first corner will not be as expected?Lycoming wrote: Its normal to see them fiddling with brake bias a lot. Between launch and the first corner? a bit odd but I would think not too unusual. you would normally adjust that while you're waiting for the rest of the grid to assemble which can be quite a long time if you're sitting in P3.
Shouldnt they then have problems during QF's?siskue2005 wrote:I think this is quite interesting, but at the same time quite a funny thing to happen....
Nico Rosberg baffled by tyre problems in the Malaysian Grand Prix
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98407
"I was P4 after the red flag and pitstop, and from then on I thought I could do something good this time. But then I started going backwards - and big time.
"[With] the first inters I had to come into the pits because I thought my rear tyre was game over completely. So I come into the pits, put a new set of inters on and the pit crew said to me that my inters were brand new still, so I thought, what is going on? They felt completely destroyed. It was strange.
I know it was mentioned here before
So now we can safely say that its not tyre degradation, The car is under working the tyres
Like ferrari 2011
So imagine how much faster times they could do in qualy if they switch it onaduka11 wrote:Shouldnt they then have problems during QF's?siskue2005 wrote:I think this is quite interesting, but at the same time quite a funny thing to happen....
Nico Rosberg baffled by tyre problems in the Malaysian Grand Prix
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98407
"I was P4 after the red flag and pitstop, and from then on I thought I could do something good this time. But then I started going backwards - and big time.
"[With] the first inters I had to come into the pits because I thought my rear tyre was game over completely. So I come into the pits, put a new set of inters on and the pit crew said to me that my inters were brand new still, so I thought, what is going on? They felt completely destroyed. It was strange.
I know it was mentioned here before
So now we can safely say that its not tyre degradation, The car is under working the tyres
Like ferrari 2011
If they cant get their tires work over long distance...how can they do it over 1,2 and 3 laps stint?
Lycoming wrote:Its normal to see them fiddling with brake bias a lot. Between launch and the first corner? a bit odd but I would think not too unusual. you would normally adjust that while you're waiting for the rest of the grid to assemble which can be quite a long time if you're sitting in P3.
Stalling the front wing will definitely give you a straight line advantage, albeit a smaller one than if you were to do it with the rear wing.
There's no reason why he couldn't have done that at any point during the lap to the start or in the grid box. It was weird that he only decided to mess about with the brake balance at the most hectic of times possible.1158 wrote:Lycoming wrote:Its normal to see them fiddling with brake bias a lot. Between launch and the first corner? a bit odd but I would think not too unusual. you would normally adjust that while you're waiting for the rest of the grid to assemble which can be quite a long time if you're sitting in P3.
Stalling the front wing will definitely give you a straight line advantage, albeit a smaller one than if you were to do it with the rear wing.
Could it be that the last time he was in the car the track was dry? With a wet track he wanted different bias for the first corner.
Or a combination of slower start/entry speed as was previously suggested and the wet conditions?
Yeah just look at Hamilton, 2 poles, but no wins so far.aduka11 wrote:Im starting to think that F-duct is not even worth of developing..
It will consume too much time...for not much performance gain.
Umm... How about from now on you stop talking complete crap and back up everything you say with facts. They started the season ~1s down (if not more) and ended it ~1s down.Mestrades wrote:Probably in China, the top teams will have developed the new FDuck. For this reason, our disadvantage about the other teams will increase. I insist that the situation of Mercedes AMG F1 is very critical now. They have a problem they do not know what exactly it is and the fact of to have run under non-representative conditions (Melbourne & rain) implies that all data collected will be unrepresentative.
For me the problem is not the degradation. The problem is that when the car is loaded, it just does not work (On Friday I put some charts which revealed precisely this)
Obviously, I do not know how to fix an issue that sank an entire team (Ferrari, last year), but the problem looks bad. I do not believe in Mercedes, these two years have shown me that they are not prepared for the fight of the development.
Sorry, but I can not be optimistic. It's impossible!