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Post by wilmywood8455 on Jul 24, 2018 5:08:01 GMT -8
Both Renault and Williams brought new front wings to Germany. But the development direction shown by each couldn’t have been starker: while the former were focused purely on adding performance, the latter were simply looking to get back on track, as Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola explain… Fourth place in the constructors’ standings is indication enough that Renault have performed respectably since the start of the season. Since testing they have steadily added performance to the R.S.18, a generally vice-less car that has vied with Haas as ‘best of the rest’ after the big three teams. In the early part of the year the Renault was qualifying only marginally quicker than the identically-powered McLaren MCL33, but as the season has progressed so the Enstone team’s development programme has proven much more fruitful.
McLaren found their development stalled around an aerodynamic imbalance in medium-speed corners that wasn’t showing up in the wind tunnel. Similarly, the Williams team have struggled with a lack of correlation between tunnel and track – though the FW41’s problems were greater than the McLaren’s and it has generally found itself towards the back of the grid. Again, the problem was aerodynamic, but in this case the airflow to the underfloor from beneath the nose was not doing what was predicted in the tunnel. Consequently the floor has not been generating anything like the downforce suggested in simulation and has even been prone to stall completely.
For both McLaren and Williams therefore, the season has been not so much about development progress as trying to trace and eradicate a specific problem. This can be seen in the direction followed by both teams with their revised front wings.
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Post by jmjgt on Jul 24, 2018 16:56:32 GMT -8
Team Willy seems to be going rack to fundamentals since the rest of the aero package is lacking. The Sky boys were saying there's a problem with the floor re-energizing quickly after the DRS closes, the drivers may have to close the flap manually before the braking zones into fast corners.
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Post by mmi16 on Jul 24, 2018 17:53:25 GMT -8
Team Willy seems to be going rack to fundamentals since the rest of the aero package is lacking. The Sky boys were saying there's a problem with the floor re-energizing quickly after the DRS closes, the drivers may have to close the flap manually before the braking zones into fast corners. When closed manually - does the DRS element close slower that when being closed account braking?
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Post by jmjgt on Jul 25, 2018 4:50:22 GMT -8
Team Willy seems to be going rack to fundamentals since the rest of the aero package is lacking. The Sky boys were saying there's a problem with the floor re-energizing quickly after the DRS closes, the drivers may have to close the flap manually before the braking zones into fast corners. When closed manually - does the DRS element close slower that when being closed account braking? I'm pretty sure they close at the same rate.
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