organic wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:46 am
I'm back on the hopium. They'll be reverting to old specs to gather more data at Baku and Singapore and feed back into the factory, and from Austin onwards they will bring parts that primarily aim to reduce instability . So from Austin they
can try to reduce the issues.
See that's the thing that I dont concur with.
"reverting to old specs" is not like floor, sidepods, engine cover, the three wings ; that it is for other teams.
Remember they changed the cooling architecture with Japan update. That's a huge change (at significant cost) because it not only might involve things like heat exchangers and plumbing, but also fixing points to the tub, housings and wiring for the MGUs, electronics etc. A big 'packaging revolution' like that must involve a large chunk of the hardware-budget.
So I don't think 'going back to launch spec' is that easy with the RB20, I have a feeling the car has gone forward in an irreversible direction. To me, Redbull now look like 2022 Mercedes, going through the Thomas Alva Edison school of engineering - experiment randomly, till something shows up.