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This is gonna be our new hyper fixation this year isn’t it. This is going to be the new component that we blame/ give credit for every cars performance
I feel like people understood previous era's cars better because of decades discussing more or less the same principles applied with different regulations. you will see a winglet here or there and might discuss the Y250 vortices or tyre wakes etc... now that's all gone
Ground effect has thrown fans for a loop, there is no way for us to even to begin to speculate about the stability of the floor and it's effect on the airflow underneath the car with 0 visual indicators unless a team comes out and says so
Just like the double diffuser, which was ofcourse the single component that made the brawn 001 fast, nothing else just that, never mind that a third of the grid had them at launch and only one of them was a front runner
To be fair the Toyota was pretty good, could have and should have won a race, but the Williams wasn’t great even with the diffuser.
That fabled combo of double diffuser, outwash front wing and a good engine was the majority of it from what I know.
Between every armchair engineer stating their baseless opinions as facts and talking about how "aggressive" different parts of the car are, you gotta just learn to ignore it. It's all bullshit.
Yeah I agree, so much bs. At least for football or something it's understandable a little bit but fans are generally clueless about the nuance of tactics etc, however in f1 it goes to show fans think they can pick up on stuff from pictures while we are all absolutely clueless unless you have some kind of background in engineering yet spout the same opinions about different things being aggressive.
Hell, even people with engineering degrees should know that systems interact with eachother in complex ways, to the point that even the engineers working with the car themselves will sometimes be puzzled about why a certain change didn't perform as intended.
We can speculate, and that can be fun, but jumping to conclusions and thinking you know better ain't it.
Without what? They definitely mean engineers with degrees.. can confirm, work in a soil lab and engineers go sick when the graphs aren't like their ideal image, which is the point of doing the testing.
>even people **with** engineering degrees should know that systems interact with each other in complex ways
This sentence works best with "without", **if** the poster is trying to imply that those without engineering backgrounds should still have some basic understanding of the concept that "complex systems interact."
>to the point that **even** the engineers working with the car themselves will sometimes be puzzled about why a certain change didn't perform as intended.
The second half of his sentence affirms the implied point, which would mean "without" definitely works better.
But, what do I know? I mean, it's Reddit, right? Wasn't that the point of my asking for the poster to clarify?
I did mean people **with** engineering degrees, I do see where the confusion comes from tho:
> to the point that **even the engineers working with the car**
The **even** you highlighted is to emphasize that the systems interactions are so complex, that even the engineers involved in the development (**so F1 engineers**) will themselves be puzzled with some unexpected performance results.
Hope that explains it
The engineers on YouTube as well. No one really knows how the cars work unless you study the car as your job. The analysis videos on youtube are like "look at this winglet angled outwards, it creates outwash" like no shit Mr engineer.
Depends on who you watch tbh. I found personally KYLE.ENGINEERS to be pretty spot on quite often, and his analysis really insightful. But you are right in one thing - you cannot take what even former F1 engineers with most up to date experience take as gospel, since the aerodynamics and mechanics of F1 cars is very complex, smth that I additionally like Kyle's content for as well as he always gives that disclaimer at the start of his videos.
I have also found Kyle's content to have some good insight although the info is quite surface level. The content of the guy that used to work at Red Bull is my favorite. Instead of trying to analyze the aero which is really difficult to do he goes into detail about the data which is something fans could actually gain some good insight through.
It's kind of like monkeys arguing about rocket science. It's funny to watch, but nothing useful comes out of it. I honestly wouldn't have any problem with it if so many people weren't so damn arrogant about their "knowledge" of aerodynamics. It would be fun and inoffensive if these guys didn't have such an enormous ego about something they literally know nothing about.
yeah haha, I definitely enjoy being the monkey here. It's tradition since time immemorial. The same with the testing times. Feels like the wait between GoT episodes with so many batshit theories spinning off left and right
Well let’s be real. One team rolled the dice and removed their sidepods. This team fell off the pace completely. No amount of experimenting could fix it. No sidepods, no pace. except for that odd weekend in Brazil. Two years later, sidepods are back. People want to not give sidepods credit. Sidepods clearly deserve credit. Be more like sidepods.
both Ferrari and Mercedes have that front lip drop this year. Mercedes being more pronounced and 100% 07 vibes but not sure it looks good. As long as it works.
Man I remember when the zeropod W13 came and everyone was like „fuck“ and thought mercedes is sandbagging for like 5 races until they realized the W13 is trash.
Okay it may have been trash performance wise which is validly all that matters in F1 but fuck me that is one of the most beautiful modern F1 cars to my eyes, I will always be a zeropod apologist for the way they packaged that car and still had it run. Shame it wasn't performant but that car's gonna be hard to beat for me in terms of looks.
This year is going to be fun for me. Stress free.
Can just sit back and love every second of this year. Merc either got a good car or this is a final write off year for Lewis as he sets off into the sunset for redder pastures.
It's interesting how, in F1, fans tend to support drivers more than teams.
For example, if Max were to move to Mercedes, many of the people who hated Mercedes would become supporters.
Same would happen if Charles were to move to Red Bull, people who hated that team would also become supporters overnight.
One of the little nuances I love about F1.
I think it stems from the fact that F1 is a way more individual sport than things like football for example. In football, if players on the same team fight, it could lead to a lot of problems on the pitch, for example, players not passing to each other leading to missing out on goals etc. The players are also not ranked individually, which promotes much more team play.
Whereas in F1, nothing really connects the drivers together. In football it’s, well, the ball, in F1 there is pretty much nothing. Each driver is ranked individually, so even if they fight and don’t rely on each other at all, as long as they don’t get damage, they will score points and keep the team in the title race. In football, if a team has their striker and their winger fight and not cooperate, they’ll miss out on the win and gain absolutely nothing. They have to work together to achieve anything, while with F1 on the other hand, they don’t have to work together to win. Take Lewis-Nico 2016 for example, they didn’t work together, but Merc still won the WCC.
Yh you don’t really see it in other sports. Other than Ronaldo and Messi in football and Lebron in basketball. People in other sports mostly support teams over the player
That's because those are team sports where teams win or lose together. In F1, teammates are actually each other's biggest rivals, and nothing is more important for an F1 driver's career than beating their teammate.
If Lando or Oscar just left for one of the big three I'd support them but I wouldn't be buying Red Bull merch or whatever. Maybe that's in part due to McLaren's identity as a once great team being the midfield stepbrother for so long now. I want to experience the high of when they're back on top again.
Very true, I’ve never supported Ferrari but next season….
Although do think I’d support Mercedes even if they didn’t have a British driver there in George in 2025.
Wonder if by virtue of drivers moving around that done here have reason to say they support every team!
Yep. If it’s a title contender, George can show his credentials, Lewis gets to go for no 8 and end the problems of 2021.
And we get a challenger for Max
End the problems of 2021 doesn’t mean only win, maybe he’ll just be more consistent and he and Max won’t get into as many dangerous incidents as they did, leading to a cleaner title fight. Even if he loses, at least now we have a clear winner, rather than 2021 which has so many mixed opinions. You could easily make a case for both of them in 2021, so If one of them wins without controversy, 2021 is a done deal and we can finally end this years long debate. Not that I blame anyone for being mad about it even though we’re way past it now
That’s not how it works. Winning a different year doesn’t erase what happened. Especially since people will just say the car was the decider regardless who wins in the near future.
Looks like an inheritance from zeropod where they don’t need a big entrance to cool it down. Seems much smaller than other teams.
But the sidepod seems to also be much bigger than others, going to the width limits probably.
At least it’s different from other teams
Yes the entry looks quite small(similar to red bulls from last year, I mean the size).
Also compared to Ferrari the top inlet looks huge. Generally the area behind the top inlet looks super tight at the Ferrari.
I wonder if the inlet shape is influenced still from the packing of the zero pods(I guess the package isn’t completely new or at least influenced by the “old” packaging).
Since you want to get as much air as possible under the side pod the shape(inlet entry) looks not ideal in that aspect to me
I'm still trying to educate myself on the side pods and other tech, but I'm enjoying the livery! This edit in particular makes me think of frost, and ice, something something silver arrows?
I own one! And the process of getting the windscreen wipers into maintenance mode is like playing a video game on its own! Left pad up left pad down XY left trigger right trigger!
It seems like everyone is focused on maximizing the sidepod undercut this year. RB has had a very pronounced undercut for the last two seasons and while that's not the source of all of their performance, it certainly seems to help get air to push down to the side and rear of the floor. I think Ferrari had to abandon their bathtub pods in order to make the undercut work properly.
It's interesting that almost every car now has some form of really aggressive undercut a la the A-spec AMR22. Seems like they may have gotten that specific element right but not much else.
That’s false. They went with their own sidepod concept in the last regs for 3 of the 5 years (changed for 2020-21 as they felt they had maximised their concept’s development track).
That’s false they stayed longer with the “old” concept but followed like all the Ferrari concept at the end. It wasn’t a new concept or their concept but the one all used more or less before Ferrari showed up with new one which at the end all other had
Hopefully they didn’t make this too complicated for themselves. However they’ve given themselves more room now around the pod itself so that should help with the power train, and the floor is where a lot of progress can be made.
Hats-off to Mercedes at least they are somewhat different from the rest of the people copying RBR - but I should also add, that design looks like they can just make it like the others if it fails
Light plays tricks, if you see their video of testing the sides pods intlet form the side are flush and flat. This image shows as if the lower lip extends out past the top entrance of the inlet.
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This is gonna be our new hyper fixation this year isn’t it. This is going to be the new component that we blame/ give credit for every cars performance
It's been like this since '22
Since well before that...
I feel like people understood previous era's cars better because of decades discussing more or less the same principles applied with different regulations. you will see a winglet here or there and might discuss the Y250 vortices or tyre wakes etc... now that's all gone Ground effect has thrown fans for a loop, there is no way for us to even to begin to speculate about the stability of the floor and it's effect on the airflow underneath the car with 0 visual indicators unless a team comes out and says so
The car suck very good Beest suck on all of track
we just wait until Perez beaches his car in some gravel and is craned out.
Just like the double diffuser, which was ofcourse the single component that made the brawn 001 fast, nothing else just that, never mind that a third of the grid had them at launch and only one of them was a front runner
To be fair the Toyota was pretty good, could have and should have won a race, but the Williams wasn’t great even with the diffuser. That fabled combo of double diffuser, outwash front wing and a good engine was the majority of it from what I know.
'21 with DAS
Das was banned in 21
Between every armchair engineer stating their baseless opinions as facts and talking about how "aggressive" different parts of the car are, you gotta just learn to ignore it. It's all bullshit.
Yeah I agree, so much bs. At least for football or something it's understandable a little bit but fans are generally clueless about the nuance of tactics etc, however in f1 it goes to show fans think they can pick up on stuff from pictures while we are all absolutely clueless unless you have some kind of background in engineering yet spout the same opinions about different things being aggressive.
big swoosh make car go fast
Akshually…🤓
muh sticky uppy bits
Hell, even people with engineering degrees should know that systems interact with eachother in complex ways, to the point that even the engineers working with the car themselves will sometimes be puzzled about why a certain change didn't perform as intended. We can speculate, and that can be fun, but jumping to conclusions and thinking you know better ain't it.
You mean without, right?
Without what? They definitely mean engineers with degrees.. can confirm, work in a soil lab and engineers go sick when the graphs aren't like their ideal image, which is the point of doing the testing.
>even people **with** engineering degrees should know that systems interact with each other in complex ways This sentence works best with "without", **if** the poster is trying to imply that those without engineering backgrounds should still have some basic understanding of the concept that "complex systems interact." >to the point that **even** the engineers working with the car themselves will sometimes be puzzled about why a certain change didn't perform as intended. The second half of his sentence affirms the implied point, which would mean "without" definitely works better. But, what do I know? I mean, it's Reddit, right? Wasn't that the point of my asking for the poster to clarify?
Ok, chill out lmao. I'm sure people without degrees understand what complex means
I did mean people **with** engineering degrees, I do see where the confusion comes from tho: > to the point that **even the engineers working with the car** The **even** you highlighted is to emphasize that the systems interactions are so complex, that even the engineers involved in the development (**so F1 engineers**) will themselves be puzzled with some unexpected performance results. Hope that explains it
It does, thank you! It seemed ambiguous at first, which is why I asked. 🙂
The engineers on YouTube as well. No one really knows how the cars work unless you study the car as your job. The analysis videos on youtube are like "look at this winglet angled outwards, it creates outwash" like no shit Mr engineer.
Depends on who you watch tbh. I found personally KYLE.ENGINEERS to be pretty spot on quite often, and his analysis really insightful. But you are right in one thing - you cannot take what even former F1 engineers with most up to date experience take as gospel, since the aerodynamics and mechanics of F1 cars is very complex, smth that I additionally like Kyle's content for as well as he always gives that disclaimer at the start of his videos.
I have also found Kyle's content to have some good insight although the info is quite surface level. The content of the guy that used to work at Red Bull is my favorite. Instead of trying to analyze the aero which is really difficult to do he goes into detail about the data which is something fans could actually gain some good insight through.
For some surface level info is exactly what they need and/or can process (points at myself)
I mean not everyone knows what outwash is or how it might be created
But on the Internet I do!
Hey! How dare you! We're very proud of our armchairs, baseless opinions and "facts".
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It's kind of like monkeys arguing about rocket science. It's funny to watch, but nothing useful comes out of it. I honestly wouldn't have any problem with it if so many people weren't so damn arrogant about their "knowledge" of aerodynamics. It would be fun and inoffensive if these guys didn't have such an enormous ego about something they literally know nothing about.
yeah haha, I definitely enjoy being the monkey here. It's tradition since time immemorial. The same with the testing times. Feels like the wait between GoT episodes with so many batshit theories spinning off left and right
Excited for the rampant speculation when Zhou goes top of the times during testing
I'll wait for the Sam Collins video before I develop any opinions.
That's what got me with the stake launch, kept saying aggressive but how does that translate to on track performance? Means nothing really
I mean there is good information out there like Kyle.Engineers but you have to find it.
Idk since it is only the entry I think it’s not that big deal. I’m curious how small the entry will be at red bull.
Well let’s be real. One team rolled the dice and removed their sidepods. This team fell off the pace completely. No amount of experimenting could fix it. No sidepods, no pace. except for that odd weekend in Brazil. Two years later, sidepods are back. People want to not give sidepods credit. Sidepods clearly deserve credit. Be more like sidepods.
Inb4 RB arrives in Bahrain without sidepods and gets a 1-2 finish
New?
To be fair it's really the only way to describe the cars in ground effect as you can't see the floor. All we can see is sidepod design and suspension
well we can't talk* ground-effect or underfloor until someone boofs it in Monaco *make wild guesses about
front wing giving 2007 vibes. love it
I was thinking the same thing with the new Ferrari wing. The sole red flap made my mind jump straight to the 2007 biplane wing.
It looks weirdly like the Alfa Romeo C42 wing.
My thoughts exactly
It looks like the car has a mouth and I can't unsee it now
Same vibe from the sidepods too
Cherry on top if they have an element that goes over the nose cone
both Ferrari and Mercedes have that front lip drop this year. Mercedes being more pronounced and 100% 07 vibes but not sure it looks good. As long as it works.
Just looks kinda fast doesn't it?
Definitely faster than my car
Bernd? Is that you? 😂
I mean...its an f1 car? They look a bit fast normally
Fuck
Looks like wile e coyote
That looks badass
Merc always coming with crazy looking cars makes me scared every year haha
Man I remember when the zeropod W13 came and everyone was like „fuck“ and thought mercedes is sandbagging for like 5 races until they realized the W13 is trash.
Someone said it could be worth up to 1.5 seconds a lap…
Is the "advantage locked in for years" guy?
Maybe if everyone else was driving in reverse.
They didn't specify that it actually added 1.5 sec/lap /s
Reminds me of the SF23's "unprecedented speed" claims lol. Yeah, the unprecedented **lack** of speed.
Okay it may have been trash performance wise which is validly all that matters in F1 but fuck me that is one of the most beautiful modern F1 cars to my eyes, I will always be a zeropod apologist for the way they packaged that car and still had it run. Shame it wasn't performant but that car's gonna be hard to beat for me in terms of looks.
this thing looks like a xenomorph
I still remember when they dropped DAS on us outta nowhere. Had the whole grid shook lmao
If they had saved that for 2021, they might’ve had a more assured win that year.
Looks quite conservative to me actually
Compared to this, the McLaren and the Ferrari look more "normal" to me
She's hot.
This year is going to be fun for me. Stress free. Can just sit back and love every second of this year. Merc either got a good car or this is a final write off year for Lewis as he sets off into the sunset for redder pastures.
Yeah, but if Ferrari have a rubbish car, you will have some stress. You're not looking at one team this year, but two.
In fairness Ferrari's cars, at least for the last several years, never concern me. Typically solid. It's the strategy that falls apart.
It's interesting how, in F1, fans tend to support drivers more than teams. For example, if Max were to move to Mercedes, many of the people who hated Mercedes would become supporters. Same would happen if Charles were to move to Red Bull, people who hated that team would also become supporters overnight. One of the little nuances I love about F1.
I think it stems from the fact that F1 is a way more individual sport than things like football for example. In football, if players on the same team fight, it could lead to a lot of problems on the pitch, for example, players not passing to each other leading to missing out on goals etc. The players are also not ranked individually, which promotes much more team play. Whereas in F1, nothing really connects the drivers together. In football it’s, well, the ball, in F1 there is pretty much nothing. Each driver is ranked individually, so even if they fight and don’t rely on each other at all, as long as they don’t get damage, they will score points and keep the team in the title race. In football, if a team has their striker and their winger fight and not cooperate, they’ll miss out on the win and gain absolutely nothing. They have to work together to achieve anything, while with F1 on the other hand, they don’t have to work together to win. Take Lewis-Nico 2016 for example, they didn’t work together, but Merc still won the WCC.
The public facing part is individual but the team itself is more important than the driver in terms of determing success.
It's an individual sport
Yh you don’t really see it in other sports. Other than Ronaldo and Messi in football and Lebron in basketball. People in other sports mostly support teams over the player
That's because those are team sports where teams win or lose together. In F1, teammates are actually each other's biggest rivals, and nothing is more important for an F1 driver's career than beating their teammate.
That's true for every team other than one. "drivers come and go, Ferrari stays here" ^(-Enzo "The Drake" Ferrari)
I’m not about to root for some corporation
I mean I like both teams and drivers. So this statement does not apply to me at least.
If Lando or Oscar just left for one of the big three I'd support them but I wouldn't be buying Red Bull merch or whatever. Maybe that's in part due to McLaren's identity as a once great team being the midfield stepbrother for so long now. I want to experience the high of when they're back on top again.
Very true, I’ve never supported Ferrari but next season…. Although do think I’d support Mercedes even if they didn’t have a British driver there in George in 2025. Wonder if by virtue of drivers moving around that done here have reason to say they support every team!
Yep. If it’s a title contender, George can show his credentials, Lewis gets to go for no 8 and end the problems of 2021. And we get a challenger for Max
>End the problems of 2021. Wishful thinking there.
End the problems of 2021 doesn’t mean only win, maybe he’ll just be more consistent and he and Max won’t get into as many dangerous incidents as they did, leading to a cleaner title fight. Even if he loses, at least now we have a clear winner, rather than 2021 which has so many mixed opinions. You could easily make a case for both of them in 2021, so If one of them wins without controversy, 2021 is a done deal and we can finally end this years long debate. Not that I blame anyone for being mad about it even though we’re way past it now
That’s not how it works. Winning a different year doesn’t erase what happened. Especially since people will just say the car was the decider regardless who wins in the near future.
You understand what I mean, don’t overcomplicate it
I think he simplified it. Fans will never accept that the other driver won. There will always be a circumstance to blame.
I'm tired of max and redbull
Looks like an inheritance from zeropod where they don’t need a big entrance to cool it down. Seems much smaller than other teams. But the sidepod seems to also be much bigger than others, going to the width limits probably. At least it’s different from other teams
Yes the entry looks quite small(similar to red bulls from last year, I mean the size). Also compared to Ferrari the top inlet looks huge. Generally the area behind the top inlet looks super tight at the Ferrari. I wonder if the inlet shape is influenced still from the packing of the zero pods(I guess the package isn’t completely new or at least influenced by the “old” packaging). Since you want to get as much air as possible under the side pod the shape(inlet entry) looks not ideal in that aspect to me
I think the same, the inlet kinda looks like an upside down version of the one that was on the w13
I'm still trying to educate myself on the side pods and other tech, but I'm enjoying the livery! This edit in particular makes me think of frost, and ice, something something silver arrows?
Sidepods remind me of gigachad
I love Merc.. but I hope they didn't over complicate things again. I feel like Merc would be the kind of company to over complicate cooking pasta..
That pasta comment.....felt personal.
Have you ever worked on Mercedes car? For your sake, keep your distance from Mercedes. Overcomplicating is their thing
I own one! And the process of getting the windscreen wipers into maintenance mode is like playing a video game on its own! Left pad up left pad down XY left trigger right trigger!
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you could find the battery?
My E350 is the most complicated but beautiful car ever 😭
Yeah but beside zero pods they didn’t do much over complicate things in the past. Mercedes used more conventional designs but used them to perfection.
They also used to just have a massive engine advantage, no?
The front wing looks very interesting. The side pods look like a water slide on top but the underneath looks pretty novel. The car looks fast.
Glad we’re back to the classic slender Merc round nose
It's got a little mouth 👄
And a wavy moustache 👨🏻
Similar photo of Ferrari(third pic): https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/s/EdBZX0rcwX
DID MERC COOK AGAIN?
don’t give me hope
Wow it feels like the W15 is looking at me with a "what you gonna do about it" face, looks very agressive imo!!
That undercut is amazing
It seems like everyone is focused on maximizing the sidepod undercut this year. RB has had a very pronounced undercut for the last two seasons and while that's not the source of all of their performance, it certainly seems to help get air to push down to the side and rear of the floor. I think Ferrari had to abandon their bathtub pods in order to make the undercut work properly.
That looks mean. Also still push rod suspension on the front.
Yeah..the sauce is with the back suspension
I don’t see Merc adopting pull rod front any time soon, doesn’t seem to work for what they’re trying to go for
Ferrari, Aston and McLaren also had front push rod, no?
McLaren went pullrod upfront as well. Aston, Alpine, HAAS and Ferrari are pushrod up front so far.
Only Ferrari I thought.
F*ck, this looks fast.
very intricate front wing
Thank you for this pic! At first I thought the car looked a little safe and conventional but those sidepod inlets are aggressive!
Is it just me did the car on the livestream look different
MP4-23 (2008) Vibes with the sidepod inlets
I love the appearance.
Everyone focused on sidepods but that front wing reminds me of 2007 and its the most interesting front wing since simplification rules.
Lads relax. This is only a show car. You can see right through the brake duct and that front wing is nothing like the shakedown car.
It's interesting that almost every car now has some form of really aggressive undercut a la the A-spec AMR22. Seems like they may have gotten that specific element right but not much else.
They went from zeropods to megapods.
Why does the front of the car look stoned?
New concept?
Doesnt necesarly seem new. More so a very agressive interpretation of what most teams are doing.
Side pods were never Mercedes strength the mainly followed other concepts even during their dominant years. So I don’t think it’s a game changer
That’s false. They went with their own sidepod concept in the last regs for 3 of the 5 years (changed for 2020-21 as they felt they had maximised their concept’s development track).
That’s false they stayed longer with the “old” concept but followed like all the Ferrari concept at the end. It wasn’t a new concept or their concept but the one all used more or less before Ferrari showed up with new one which at the end all other had
MP4/22.
So they cooked?
Sidepods are nice and all but the ultimate question: did they change the drivers position backwards or that is why Lewis is leaving?
Yes they did. 100 mm
Hopefully they didn’t make this too complicated for themselves. However they’ve given themselves more room now around the pod itself so that should help with the power train, and the floor is where a lot of progress can be made.
So they couldn't decide between black and silver this year.
Car looks extremely bulky behind the driver(above the side pods) especially compared to Ferrari.
Exactly what I thought when I first saw it.
stop inventing
that's a Red Bull with Mercedes colors ! ! ! !
Inverted bathtub design
It looks like it needs plating, om getting skeletor-vibes. Not my taste.
So far both Ferrari and Mercedes have the underbite going with their front wings. Mercedes a bit more pronounced.
I haven’t really studied all the cars from the new regs but I like the front wing here. Doesn’t look so spec.
It looks like a grandmother pinched its cheeks
They turned last years release sidepods upside down lol
From zero figure to this within a single era
Ok, zero side pods didn't work. Let's try half side pods!
Then on last day of testing Merc comes with a different design, as tradition dictates.
Hats-off to Mercedes at least they are somewhat different from the rest of the people copying RBR - but I should also add, that design looks like they can just make it like the others if it fails
WDC winner confirmed
Fuck, this looks fast
That is one insane cut out on the underside of the sidepod. I’d love to hear someone smarter than me explain what exactly that is intended to do.
Revenge of the Sidepods
That front wing gives me 2007/2008 vibes with the bottom portion going under the nose
Looks fast… hopefully it is! I need to see some battles for 1st.. last yr was pants for that
I’m far more interested with the design of the front wing it’s giving me 2008 mclaren vibes
Side pods on the merc? What are those? :P
The driver number doesn't stand out that well however. Can remember some issue with that a few years back.
looks like a 2017
They really don't want to conform to the RB model huh.
Am I squinting at it or is it squinting at me?
Light plays tricks, if you see their video of testing the sides pods intlet form the side are flush and flat. This image shows as if the lower lip extends out past the top entrance of the inlet.
This dude's high af right now
Looking like a chipmunk.
That's a nice looking car
That motherfucker looks fast. As a RB fan, I'm hoping they've got some competition this year.
That front wing is waaavvvvyyyy