GPR-A wrote:turbof1 wrote:I find your low regard for Matt and his work at Motorsport disturbing. He and Piola put quite a bit of effort in studying the available material on the matter and doing that article. Either you truly have low regard towards it, or you trying to discredit on purpose the article to desparately prove Hamilton is not at fault here. Either way, Matt has more experience and more resources then you. You are not in a position to discredit him.
You are assuming too many things that are not there, when you say I am discrediting him to prove Hamilton is not at fault. The fact that Hamilton went to the factory and simulator says, he is missing something and wants to correct it. That is given.
Now let's just focus on the article and not the author. Here is the topic of the article.
There is nothing against Matt and I am just being critical of misleading title, or the information in the article not doing justice to the title of the article.
In my view Matt is in a good position to have his work presented with Piola's. He is on the big stage now. He is a hard worker but sometimes he extrapolates a bit too much the facts. For the F1 neophyte he can get away with it too but not with us seasoned readers. I used to challenge Scarbs a lot over his tech theories, but the thing with Scarb is, if he doesn't have a direct source, he at least tells you how his theories are derived, so his work tends to feel grounded. I like Matt's drawings but I try to avoid reading his articles as they only make me angry at how he twirls the techical stuff around. All those walls of text but I come away from the table feeling hungry just the same.
I too have the same exact sentiments about that article on the clutch. I was hoping for more insight into how Mercedes found the issue and how the wedge shape helps the release. It is obvious now that the bad launches were because of poor ergonomics of the clutch pedal. It was like eating a burger with chopsticks. Nico just happens to have those big fred flintstone hands that he ends up somehow smashing his fist into it then some bits of the burger get stuck between the sticks so he can gnaw off the globs. Lewis has more slender fingers so he is finger tip style of driver on the controls. He doesn't have those built in ramps of leathery finger flesh that Nico has. This wedge seems to adress that.
