Ferraripilot wrote:Mr.S wrote:ROFL JET. They nailed the EBD when the could not during the full second. They are running light compared to others (atleast no reason for RBR to do a Light fuel run now).
That & EBD constitues around 1-1.5s of time. Even with a SWB Mercedes with their EBD & hot blowing gained 1 FULL Second atleast. Not as much Mclaren or RBR but even then quite a lot. I doubt if any of the 2012 cars will be able to cross last season's lap times anyway.
BTW Mercedes with EBD is only 0.6s faster than RBR. LOL. Still a long way to go
Mercedes EBD never saw 1-1.5 seconds. If you remember, when the changed from their side blown exhaust to the EBD late in the '11 season the car was just barely any quicker let alone half a second. Mercedes was in the same boat as everyone else except RB and Mclaren in that they didn't see even half the benefit the top two teams did. EBD aside, I believe testing today confirms just how powerful the EBD was for Red Bull yet not for others. If W02 is .6 quicker than RB8 at this point then I'm wondering how much quicker W03 might be considering Bell has been buried in the sand developing in Brackley for a year now lol.
Mercedes were running their engine mapping & their how blowing even with the sideways exhaust. They were more than 2s behind in Australia & most of the top teams bought tons of upgrades unlike Mercedes.
How did that gap magically shrink to 1-1.5 odd seconds when Mercedes rate of upgrade was nothing compared to the top running teams.
Every team gained atleast 1 FULL second as far as I know. Some even more than 1.5s. And more from fancy qualifying maps which were banned.
Mclaren gained more than RBR as Silverstone demonstrated. They were nowhere without EBD. Their whole octopus exhaust was going to blow the diffuser. And their U-pods & LWB was suited for that.
How did Mclaren magically gain the 1s odd in Australia. And that Seb did not have Kers in Australia which would have given them another 0.4 of a second.
