Team: Bob Bell (TD), Norbert Haug (VP of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport), Nick Fry (CEO), Ross Brawn (TP), Geoff Willis (Technology Director), Also Costa (Engineering Director)
Drivers: Michael Schumacher (7), Nico Rosberg (8)
If you are talking about the q2 lap of schumy, then you should know that the video overlay and the actual video are out of syncnacho wrote:Did anyone else notice that Mercs were quite early deactivating DRS, am I just imagining things?
Umm... Yes it can. Not by a viewer watching the TV, but the teams can easily find out if there is an advantage or not by testing it in their tunnels.hardingfv32 wrote:You can not isolate the F-duct performance from the rest of this car's overall performance. It simply can not be demonstrated there it is of any benefit from this system. This car is at best in third place in the performance standings after all.
Brian
As far as I am aware, the DRS is not deactivated by the driver, but by a touch on the brakes.nacho wrote:Did anyone else notice that Mercs were quite early deactivating DRS, am I just imagining things?
If this is from the on board of Schumacher's Q2 lap we've already discussed the sync issues between the graphics and video/sound.gilgen wrote:As far as I am aware, the DRS is not deactivated by the driver, but by a touch on the brakes.nacho wrote:Did anyone else notice that Mercs were quite early deactivating DRS, am I just imagining things?
gilgen wrote:As far as I am aware, the DRS is not deactivated by the driver, but by a touch on the brakes.
Before the drivers fully apply the brakes don't they tap them to prime them or is that not done in F1 ?gilgen wrote:As far as I am aware, the DRS is not deactivated by the driver, but by a touch on the brakes.nacho wrote:Did anyone else notice that Mercs were quite early deactivating DRS, am I just imagining things?
It is possible to set it up to deactivate by other means. Hamilton did it with a button push before the schumacher S at the nurburgring last year in qualifying.gilgen wrote:As far as I am aware, the DRS is not deactivated by the driver, but by a touch on the brakes.nacho wrote:Did anyone else notice that Mercs were quite early deactivating DRS, am I just imagining things?
It is hard to imagine that it could be that dramatic. The system only works when DRS is a activated; along one straight and only when behind another car by 1 second or less. Once they are in front, the system is useless.Just_a_fan wrote:Yes, but if the system gives you 0.2s laptime, every lap, then it's well worth developing the system straight away. That could be the difference between Q2 and Q3 for example. And for circuits such as Spa, China and Monza the ability to carry a touch more d/f on the corners and lose it on the straights might mean more than a third of a second per lap advantage. No team can afford not to chase that sort of performance gain.
It's probably as easy to develop as finding the same amount of extra downforce required to give the same lap time benefit. And it also means that you use less fuel over the race distance than merely adding downforce would allow because you're carrying a lot less drag at high speed and high speed drag is a big issue for fuel use.
yener wrote:MGP has brought a tweaked front wing today.
Heard it over sky as well. Apparently it's something small-ish in the endplates. It was apparently fitted to Nico's car. Didn't see it myself, but brundle saw them unpack and fit it.Ferraripilot wrote:yener wrote:MGP has brought a tweaked front wing today.
Looks the same to me. What's different?
I really don't think MGP would have missed something that straight forward, they know what they are doing.Robbobnob wrote:Well if that nose duct isnt primarily for driver cooling, then it must be in breach of the regulations!!
