Did anyone who claims the RB wing is "inactive" or that one or the other FW on a competitor's car flexes more ever actually have a deeper look at them, ever did an analysis of them or compared them?
I did a comparison of the top3 during testing, there was no outlier:
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Sieper wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 13:46
Yep, that MB front wing simply has an inside part, and an outside part, that butt up to eachother via two steel plates that slide very easily against eachother.
I thought the elements were a mandated one piece this year, apparently not, so let’s copy that.
The cars have those connections in order to make the wings adjustable, all cars have them.
At the beginning of the season the RB was (and still is) one of those who have it further inwards, Merc is somewhere in the middle, Ferrari have them further outwards, some chose to have the adjustor on the inside and those connections on the outside - i don't know if any team really changed that but that's beside the point.
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Since the beginning of the season there have been some changes, the top3 seemingly increased the level of flex relative to their earlier FW versions (edit: for the RB18 see second gif), the RB arguably having the most flexible one of the three, I might go back and do a comprehensive comparison of all the wings i managed to record footage of so far but that wouldn't go in this thread [edit:
here it is], and i think that's enough of a detour to car comparison territory.
Coming back to the car in question ... this is from Canada, recorded in FP1
"two steel plates that slide very easily against eachother" at low and high speed:
Red is low speed (last frame of the gif below):
Green is roughly an average deflection:
Yellow is the extreme the wing is capable of bending to (frame 43):
In movement:
Comparison of the average deflection in Canada to what the wing was doing in testing, keeping in mind that it's a different design, different position of the elements etc etc - it's roughly x2:
From the newer gif, 1:05.2, showing it's at the green line, not the extreme yellow.
So in conclusion: Red Bull is not the disadvantaged party here, they do not have to copy any flexing or solutions from others since they're rather at the forefront of pushing what is possible and obviously still considered legal (not that anyone thinks i believe it's not) by the FIA.
aral wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022, 13:27
Any chance of some posts that are actually on topic? it would make a nice change.
Yes hello
p.s.:
This is the movement of their nose tip or probably rather the vanity cover on the nose tip
