Red Bull question Mercedes ‘B-spec’ progress
Red Bull question Mercedes ‘B-spec’ progress
"They've introduced pretty much a B-spec car" - Red Bull boss Christian Horner has questioned the progress made by Mercedes
Horner's gotta get the dig in somewhere, doesn't he?
What gets me is just how dominant Verstappen is. How is it possible that their car is THAT MUCH faster than everyone else's, even without DRS? It can't just be aerodynamics, can it?
Newey has history with ground effect. He studied it an uni, he implemented it in the Williams FW07, and recently the AM Valkyrie.
In a nutshell, he's the best for this current specification of F1 car.
But surely he doesn't have some secret... and we all got a real good look at Perez' floor at Monaco, didn't we?
it seems his preferred car setup (strong front, light back) and his driving style with it (he does many small corrections - super visible when you look on older F3 videos).
here is the video I took so this from ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9yP6BSyTUI did know that he prefers a other setup than Perez, but I didn't know to what extent and what difference that made. As this driving style is second nature for him by now, and it really seems to be faster, I don't think someone could learn this later on life - at least not as good.
edit: forgot to add, besides the floor of the RedBull, to which every other team said, that they are more than just a bit behind, they also managed to give their DRS more power than just reducing drag. they guide the air in some way, that, with the open flap, they get even more speed of of that - probably introducing done vortexes to destroy the air stream for other downforce elements, but I'm just guessing