Mercedes were “too cautious” in performance v bouncing trade-off with 2023 F1 car
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Porpoising hampered Mercedes’ 2022 campaign and reappeared at the Belgian Grand Prix, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell bo𓃲th complaining about significant bouncing at Spa-Francorchamps.&nbs𝓀p;
🍎Tweaks were made to the 2023 regulations in order to reduce bouncing, including raising the floor edges and diffuser throat. Largely, the problem has been eradicated this year.
Mercedes techn🐟ical director James Allison has admitted the team were overly cautious in their bid to correct the severe bouncing they suffered in 2022 when developing the W14.
"Although we made great strides last year, 2023 presented all ✨the teams with a 🤪rule change that offered some protection against bouncing,” Allison explained in a Mercedes.
“Over the winter we faced a choice. Go aggressive and trade the bouncing protection in the rule change for performance, or take a more cautions route and steer clear of the sor𝔍t of porpoising that wrecked our season last year.
“We chose the cautious path, knowing that it would be less painful to correꦗct if we were wrong. The story of our year so far has been mostly about finding out that we had been too cautious and making the changes to correct that.”
Nevertheless, Allison saiꦅd Mercedes have still bee🌳n able to add more downforce to their 2023 challenger.
"Simply putting downforce on the ca🃏r in the medium to high-speed area of t🦹he aero map,” he said of Mercedes’ biggest gains.
"That downforce is found closer to the ground than ꩲwe had developed the car in the first instance.”
As well as making further downforce gains, Mercedes are targetiಌng handling and balan🥂ce improvements.
"Bread and butter downforce is always a good ꦜthing. We are also trying to make the car more reassu🐈ring for the drivers when they initially turn in,” Allison said.
“It feels too reactive. And then when they get to the apex th🔯ey have the opposite problem, where we want it to bite at the front and it doesn't.
“It's unstable when you first turn the wheel🔜 and then annoyingly dead when they get to the apex. We want it the other way around. That's w🌳hat we are working on."
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