Receipt
“The updates have not satisfied the engineers, not so much in terms of numbers as in terms of the car's behaviour on the track.”
AutoRacer, read out by Rab, at 14:43 of “Mercedes SCRAP Upgrade, Russell Penalty Leaked! 😭💥” on TacticalRab’s channel.
Around it
- 14:32 talk about sandbagging, like what's going on? What about this new upgrade? Why isn't it working?
- 14:37 Are they just spending some time getting it dialed in? They've made some quite radical changes to the
- 14:43 car, and this is what auto racers say about what that has done to the car. The updates have not
- 14:48 satisfied the engineers, not so much in terms of numbers as in terms of the car's behaviour on the
- 14:54 track. The aerodynamic load has increased as expected. The drivers feel it, especially in the
- 14:59 fast sections, where the car performs significantly better. The problem is in the slow sections.
- 15:05 The balance seems to be too rearward, with a lot of understeer, as if the aerodynamic shifted much
In the paper
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