bar555 wrote:The larger fuel cells will force the 2010 F1 cars to have a longer wheelbase ( alongside with the thinner tyres ), which favors further a ballast movement to the rear .
This could be an advantage for teams that were running longer wheelbase cars this year, like Red Bull or Toyota. Problem for Red Bull is, they still don't know what engines they will be using. That will likely cause some delays with their car.
Callum wrote:De Jokke wrote:Hi, just read on another forum that someone read that the 25 has already about 25% more downforce than the 24. Dunno if it's true... but if it is: that's epic!
Some of this will be due to the larger car having a bigger undertray.. but 25% does seem a masssive amount.
Very possible. The MP4-24 is down quite a fair amount still on downforce compared to the Brawn, Red Bull, or Toyota.
Red Bull and Toyota are quite likely to improve the downforce levels for their new cars anywhere from 10% and higher.
If we roughly say the MP4-24 is down 10% on downforce to this year's top cars, then a 25% increase will really only put them on a roughly even level with what the top cars are projected to have next year.
As for the KERS teams having an advantage with carrying the KERS ballast, I don't think it will be that big of an advantage. The KERS ballast was always a static weight. The huge fuel tank; that will be a dynamically changing weight. With every lap, the fuel tank will get lighter and will have less volume of fuel in it, affecting the car and it's balance in a variety of ways.