SmallSoldier wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:00 pm
AeroDynamic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:13 pm
Good points, and I agree about last season.
Where I was coming from with my comment though, is how easy and straight forward can it be to redesign the engine to gain that much more performance and durability? If it’s straight forward then why did they get themselves in such a vulnerable position in the first place? That’s why I’m sceptical. I expect they will solve the wear and tear issue and it durable. But to also achieve a sustained aggressive engine map without incurring penalties? I’ll be surprised.. that would indicate that they have been napping on pursuing engine power, and the plenum innovation really casts Doubt on that for me.
I don’t think I fully understand your thought process and there are a lot of assumptions in your comment.
I don’t think anyone has said that it was “easy and straight forward” to redesign the engine, I don’t know where you are getting that from… They are improving their engine, apparently through the design of a new turbo and potentially addressing some reliability issues.
In regards to durability, the previous engine was “durable”, as a matter of fact every engine in the grid (Ferrari, Honda, Renault) could be run harder at the expense of additional wear, those teams simply decided that it wasn’t worth the benefit to drop places in the grid for the additional performance… There was no “wear and tear issue” with the 2021 engine, that engine was capable or running the expected 7 races.
Jambier suggested they will ‘basically run the special engine’ all year. The special engine was an all out effort to turn the volume up to 11 right? This is an assumption I don’t agree with. The base platform or the engine map where it could run 7 races, is obviously pretty far off the ‘special engine’ map. So to re engineer the whole engine to perform at the ‘special’ level all year with no wear, I’m doubtful. Not impossible of course, but doubtful.
They pushed bloody hard for the 2020 engine for which Cowell apparently found stressful according to his video, a lot of long hours, and pressure from Toto at the top.. which was suggested it may have played a role in cowell’s decision to move on.
They improved with the plenum last year for the ‘21 season, and they have a new innovation coming next year according to rumour. But how are they going to leap so much from what was an all out effort in 2020 already? Particularly on the ICE side.
To say ‘he will have the special engine’ all year, that’s alot of assumptions to blow through to be sure, and I for one think that’s very far from a given.
I’m not sure about the engines wear last season, I was under the impression the wear and tear issue was already a problem without the aggressive engine map they employed. When exactly did they start doing that? Is there any source that make that factual because I’m not familiar with it, I would appreciate some verified information that makes it clear, the wear and tear issue one the ICE was only after they turned the engine up to catch Honda.. which is weird because I thought they were on par to start with but that suggests they were a leap ahead of Mercedes’ day 1 which nobody mentioned in the early season that I recall.