Mercedes believes it has finally found the ride height sweet spot for its 2024 F1 car after two years of failing to get it right.
Mercedes thinks it has finally unlocked a ride height sweet spot for its 2024 Formula 1 car, after failing to get in the right window for the past two seasons.The German manufacturer has endured a challenging time since the switch to ground-effect cars at the start of the 2022 campaign.
For this year's W14, the team aimed at delivering downforce over a much wider range of ride heights, which it felt would be helped by the FIA lifting the edge of the floors by 15mm. "Although we made great strides last year, 2023 presented all the Teams with a rule change that offered some protection against bouncing," he said."Over the winter we faced a choice. Go aggressive and trade the bouncing protection in the rule change for performance, or take a more cautious route and steer clear of the sort of porpoising that wrecked our season last year.
Instead, it is something that Mercedes feels can only be addressed over the winter as it looks to its new car. Motorsport Images "If you go down the route of saying I want to develop a car for high ride height or low ride height, and I want to be able to cover all my bases, then suddenly you'd be doing like three runs a week on each one and going nowhere.
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