Well they said, they went with underfloor because it's more resistant to dirty air. Reversing this can only have the opposite effect of increasing sensitivity. If it's untrue, take it up with Ross Brawn.jjn9128 wrote: ↑21 Jul 2025, 20:38It's quite a simplified way of thinking to say "flat floor =/= ground effect" or "contoured floor is low drag". Also massively oversimplifying things to say that shaped floor and small wings is better for following easily.mzso wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025, 22:22I wonder why the great stepback. The floor essentially regressed to pre-2022 flatness. The whole point for having ground-effect floors was their insensitivity to turbulence. So that's gone now.
So did they just give up on close following alltogether?
Since they wanted low drag anyway, it would have made sense to increase shaped floors and drastically downsize wings, and gain in both aspects.
Instead we have constantd drs, a recipe for disaster. And close racing apparently thrown away.
Low drag seems even more set in stone. Ground effect cars arose precisely for the reason that they generated a lot of downforce without creating massive drag like wings do.