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Originally Posted by F87source
If you don't understand a car, you won't be able to effectively engineer and optimal solution. That's logical, and how engineering is done in the real world.... Literally tell me how else engineers devleop products or improve designs, not by just smashing new designs on it without knowing if the old parts needed to be replaced or not. This is especially true with capped wind tunnel runs and budget, you literally need to make the most of every single upgrade. Same goes with car setup for track days with reduced practice times.
Also don't forget how good Mercedes have been at implementing solutions: hot tires - vented wheel spacers and rims with ribs for additional cooling surface area, need to warm up tires das, split compressor turbo, suspension architecture to optimize aero, narrow nose concept etc etc etc. What has red bull done in the turbo hybrid area except copy Mercedes in almost all of the areas I listed? So don't be surprised when a team that doesn't bring many innovations gets caught out by a team that is used to pushing the limits all the time.
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Someone at Ferrari needs to read and understand your first paragraph
For the second at least Red Bull is smart enough to copy! Ferrari still think they are smarter than everyone else
Or they cheat and make no attempt to cover their tracks