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Originally Posted by M5Rick
With the power Merc has this was on the back burner all the time for this year in case they needed it and now they have implemented it (the intercooler and plenum chamber cooling) not to mention the tailored rear tyres.
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Firstly they've been running with the plenum design all year long - fully legal as per the fia. Maybe they're getting more performance now because they have enough engines in the pool to run party mode at all times - which doesn't break the new rules about engine modes.
Tailored rear tires? Really? That's a pretty big conspiracy.
It's harder to imagine pirelli going through all the calculations to determine what side wall stifness would suit mercedes more than redbull. That's insanely difficult vs. the FIA create a scale model of a car and seeing if floor regulations would hurt low rake vs. high rake cars, then creating regulations that suit mercedes.
So in essence if you believe in all those conspiracies why didn't the FIA make floor regulations that favored mercedes in the first place?
If anything the new tire introduction was because of red bull playing with tire pressure tricks, and measuring tire pressure while the tires were extremely hot in order to get a higher than nominal tire pressure reading. This way during testing they would be on the minimum pressure limit and then during the race they would actually be at a lower pressure resulting in more grip. But this back fired when the tires ruptured binning one of the RB's - forcing pirelli into developing new tires. I believe AM also did something similar but red bull's crash was alot more high profile so it really brought more attention.