New car reveals

[Moley RUFC]

Hmm looks too small to be one of Hamilton’s dummies.

Perhaps measuring ride height movement?

[HardtopManual]

CardShark said:

Could anyone shine some light on what this is? There are two of them on the Merc W09, one either side of the cockpit.

You press them down to lock the doors.

[CardShark]

HardtopManual said:

You press them down to lock the doors.

I knew it would be obvious

[thegreenhell]

It looks like a mechanic has lost a screw so instead has stuck a pencil in the hole.

[Kraken]

Most striking thing about that video and what is mainly wrong with F1 is the comment about well over a thousand people working on producing that car for a year.

I'm all for employment but how sustainable is that long term and how on earth can a new team coming in compete with investment on that sort of scale?

[CraigyMc]

Kraken said:

Most striking thing about that video and what is mainly wrong with F1 is the comment about well over a thousand people working on producing that car for a year.

I'm all for employment but how sustainable is that long term and how on earth can a new team coming in compete with investment on that sort of scale?

That doesn't include the motor, which for Merc is about another 600 people.

It's sustainable as long as the money supports it - bear in mind that while Mercedes are winning a lot, they are also getting a lot in prize money, so it offsets the budget and makes the F1 team quite cheap compared to funding it entirely out of a marketing budget.

[MitchT]

[FourWheelDrift]

Teams complaining about Renault's blown rear wing not being in the spirit of the regulations, translated means "we didn't think of doing it so ban it, until you give us enough time to make our own then allow them".

[carl_w]

FourWheelDrift said:

Teams complaining about Renault's blown rear wing not being in the spirit of the regulations,

Of course there is no spirit of the regulations, there are only the regulations.

[Kraken]

They might get them on the basis that the only reason to have the exhaust that way it is is to blow the rear wing and there's already precedent been set in previous seasons that using exhaust gases in that way counts as a movable aerodynamic device.

[anonymous-user]

Kraken said:

They might get them on the basis that the only reason to have the exhaust that way it is is to blow the rear wing and there's already precedent been set in previous seasons that using exhaust gases in that way counts as a movable aerodynamic device.

I cant think of a single time that argument has been made that exhaust gases are movable aero devices.