dans79 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 18:00
Zynerji wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 16:43
The only reason any of this is done is to secure an advantage. So, it is literally impossible for a Merc customer car to compete with a Merc factory car.
How do you explain RBR (3rd) wiping the mat with Renault (6th) ?
RBR - 3 wins, 13 podiums, 13 retirements, 368 points
Reanult - 0 wins, 0 podiums, 11 retirements, 57 points
Hint, it's not because the engine manufactures are doing anything to hinder their clients, it's about who can best optimize the total package!
Yeah and it's because Renault and RBR did NOT have the same workeforce/budget/development time for the 2017 cars/infrastructures at all.
Merc is atleast twice as big as its customers so even if merc gives them the same PU, their chassis will allways be far better; on paper...
Same for RB today: The RB13 conception started earlier than the RS17, more than 700 people worked on it; with a stable long standing technical team in well established facilities... while the Renault 2017 project started 1 month after Renault took over Lotus and less than 500 people worked on it at the beginning (470 to 520 all in all), in a factory that was quite dusty and rusty in many areas especially during the first half of 2016.
And if RB spends 90% of their money chasing performance, Renault must also focus on the factories and buy dozens of people and machines
That's why the Renault team that produced the 2017 car, is a smaller team compared to RB/Merc etc and even Williams. That means the gap between them in lap time is completely logical today...
AMuS says:
Merc 949 PS. Ferrari 934 PS, Renault 907 PS und Honda 881 PS.
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... 20003.html