Ferraripilot wrote:JET, I remain unconvinced of the RB, Mcl, Sauber exhaust. The Lotus is a quick car and it does not use that exhaust strategy. The benefit from the light diffuser blowing is at an academic level compared to Mercedes who are in essence not trying to enlarge the diffuser, but trying to simply make it operate more efficiently all the while yielding greater benefit from laminar flow around the sidepods. The car is a very quick car in mechanical sectors (just look at Malaysia S1) meaning the low speed traction advantage in blowing the diffuser is a non issue wth W03. We will see, but I would not be surprised if we saw other teams copying the the MB format.
I don't think that the car has good mechanical grip, S1 in Malaysia isn't mechanical at all.
Only corners 1+2 need some mechanical grip, everything else is "straight" and drs open.
They open the DRS before the start/finish line and again right after the second corner (slightly after "2" in the pic).
Sector 2 is in my opinion the mechanical one.