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Post by wilmywood8455 on Sept 23, 2018 2:30:41 GMT -8
After trying to make their cars as slippery as possible for Monza, the Formula 1 teams desperately threw drag back onto the cars for the tight street-circuit layout in Singapore. Here, our tech team of Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola explore the different approaches of Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari, while assessing the updates that Force India were finally able to put on their VJM11 at Marina Bay... Singapore’s multiple corner sequence means that it is particularly downforce-sensitive to lap time. As at Monaco, teams even add relatively ‘dirty’ downforce here – i.e. wing levels and add-ons that could not justify themselves on more conventional tracks because of the cost in drag. They still add drag here, but the relative lack of straights means that is less punishing to lap time than elsewhere. Force India and Red Bull, for example, each ran with their Monaco double T-wing arrangements.
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