Why rival teams think it will be ‘impossible’ to copy Red Bull’s F1 floor design
The paddock was given a rare glimpse at thꦬe seldom-seen ground-effect floor designs of ಞtwo of F1’s top teams last weekend in Monaco with both Red Bull’s RB19 and Mercedes’ W14 cars being shown off.
Crashes for168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton in final practice and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez in qualifying resulted in both their cars being craned high into the Monaco skyline, enabling photographers to capture images o♛🍨f the undersides.
Although rival teams have analysed the photos to unearth potential secrets from the most aerodynamicallyﷺ sensitive area of the current generation of F1 cars, the ability to copy such an intricate innovation has been ruled out.
“I think we all have a lot of pictures of the other cars,” Ferrari team principꦿa✤l Fred Vasseur said on Friday at the Spanish Grand Prix.
"But then it’s quite difficult,💮 or even impossible, to try to copy something, because it’s more a global concept than something else.&nbsꩲp;
“You can’t copy just one part of the car.”
Mercedes’ Andrew Shovlin admitted the images will have little use other tha👍n providing the c🌠hasing pack with “a little bit of inspiration”.
“All teams will be looking at the photos and I suspect they will be lo🦄oking a bit more at the Red Bull ones than the Mercedes or the Ferraℱri ones,” Shovlin told Sky.
“You can certainly get ideas about what they are trying to do with flow structures and where they might be going with the dev🎃elopment direction. If you look at last year, you look at this year, you can understand a little bit about what they are doing there.
“But the reality is, while those pictur🌸es give you a bit of an idea, it’s not as simple as ‘let’s copy that, put it on our car and we’ll be as quick as they are’. It’s definitely not a case of that.
"The reality is you’ve got to spend a vast amount of your effort understanding your own car and developing from there. So I think a little bit of🍌 inspiration, but not much more than꧒ that.”
After admiring the sophistication of Red Bull’s floor layout, McLaren team boss Andrea Stella said he couꦗld understand why the RB19 is the class of the 2023 field.
“Person♛ally, I spent some time [analysing the pi🉐ctures], but the 100 aerodynamicists at McLaren will be spending a little bit more time,” Stella said.
“It’s very interesting indeed and also shows the complexity and the quality of the developm♊ents.
“To be honest, when I saw it I said ‘hats off to Red Bull’. I can underst𓂃and why they have this kind of performance.”
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