The FIA may well have just bailed out Merc:
I want them to legit win the titleS too cuz they infinity % didn't last year!!! All that let them race bollox from Horner is the killing note. They'd raced for ?? Laps previous to the safety and Lewis was 20 approx secs ahead. The race, championship came down purely to Massi arsing it.Not sure how you've come to that conclusion. If anything it strongly favours Red Bull as they built a successful car under the current regulations so lifting their ride height won't be neccessary, but everyone else will. By raising the height of the car, they will all lose pace. This directive which is completely justified, effectively hands RB the title (which they deserve on current merit as they didn't design a shitbox)
Yeah. In fairness I sort of commented without really digging/understanding the changes. I just took it as face value that the FIA removing porpoising = Mercedes improvement. Evidently not the case.Not sure how you've come to that conclusion. If anything it strongly favours Red Bull as they built a successful car under the current regulations so lifting their ride height won't be neccessary, but everyone else will. By raising the height of the car, they will all lose pace. This directive which is completely justified, effectively hands RB the title (which they deserve on current merit as they didn't design a shitbox)
I think the detail will be in the detail, but I don't see this benefiting anyone except Red Bull really, but if the FIA set a minimu height, then it might impact RB as well. I think Merc have binned this year with the aim of closing the gap on ferrari. I see RB winning it comfortably this year. All this hype about new regs has sort of blown up in their facesYeah. In fairness I sort of commented without really digging/understanding the changes. I just took it as face value that the FIA removing porpoising = Mercedes improvement. Evidently not the case.
As I understand it - FIA can, and will, measure both the frequency and force of the vertical acceleration of the cars - i.e. how frequently it bounces, and how hard it bounces.Guys, sorry to break up a well developing conversation, but just to go back over one minor thing; Can someone explain what literally all of that tweet means, like you're explaining it to a ten year old kid?
The definition of a metric, based on the car's vertical acceleration, that will give a quantitative limit for acceptable what the shit? I've run it through google translate, got nothin', sounds like a line you'd hear from a cheap fast & furious knockoff that when you break it down is nonsense. Is it nonsense?
Wonder if Merc can challenge for the win at Silverstone?... they were quick at Barcelona and Silverstone with newly laid tarmac and high speed corners and not being a street circuit is about as good a track as Merc can hope for all year.
I feel that the gap to RB and Ferrari is just too big this year but if there is any chance for them to get a race win surely Silverstone has to be right up there.
Can't enjoying Nelson Piquet being chewed out for being a bigot. What I did not expect is the rest of his family coming out in support.
It is nice to see the people Max surrounds himself with. He opens himself up to people questioning him on whether he tolerates these views. I'm sure he will enjoy his press conference this coming Thursday.