PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑04 Oct 2017, 00:31
f1316 wrote: ↑01 Oct 2017, 19:51
Everything does look very good from a Mercedes perspective - looking at that constructors championships graph alone, you'd be sure they had completely out developed Ferrari during the season.
More worryingly for them,
their update package really didn't work and I can't remember the last time I said that. Why didn't it work, will be the question they'll need to solve to ensure they don't find themselves dropping points to two team/four drivers in some of the upcoming races.
The package worked. Your expectations were too high for Malaysia that's all. Data showed higher downforce and good aerobalance.. problem was uneven heating of the tyres which they say is in the DNA of the car. No way to fix that this year no matter which aero package they introduce. Knowing this I feel the package will show it's true performance in Suzuka.
They ran one car in one spec one in another, neither sure if they had done they right thing and the one running the new parts performing a lot worse than the guy not running them; if that's 'working' then Mercedes have an interesting development path...
In seriousness, you can say it was generating the downforce but it's due to overheating tyres or whatever - ultimately they put a package on the car and had to take it off the lead car; absolutely no way that's what they intended so it ain't an upgrade.