trinidefender wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 19:44
mwillems wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 09:29
trinidefender wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 02:37
Of course the drag is related to the wings. Bigger wings will equal more drag. Sounds like you're just referring to the balance of the car.
All cars have drag. "The drag" is not drag in general, "the drag" we refer to when we talk about the Mclaren for the past 2 months is the exceptional drag which causes the car to be a dog on the straights, apologies I thought this was clear.
The statement that we have only run high DF packages was not true as Baku had low DF wings. This did not stop the car being awful in a straight line therefore "The drag" is not caused by any need to run high DF wings.
In fact the car is pretty handy in corners.
The fact that the car is good in the corners but slow in the straights on typical low downforce tracks seems to indicate that the team can afford to use even smaller wings to bias lap time generated on straights instead of corners. This leads me to believe that they aren't doing it for another reason, the most likely coming to mind is tyre wear. Maybe they've discovered that tyre wear on their car goes up drastically with reduced downforce.
Baku requires a certain amount of wing, you can't run a very low downforce front or rear wing here as it will compromise the lap.
The rear in particular needs to be strong.
Whether the car needs more DF fir tyre wear or not I'm not sure, but one thing that the team have struggled to shake off is Landos 100 points of DF comment, despite the car not being that bad again.
Since then everyone assumes we are running wing to claw back DF when truth be told we seem OK now and actually handy in the corners, certainly after the brake package and the other upgrades.
What makes you think we struggle with tyres?
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