Mercedes new steering approach

[jaykay]

Well i think Ferrari can't complain. They usually get away with things too. Just take the fuel sensor saga of last season...

[59hrld]

As far as i know the red team has not been found guilty of breaking and rule in 2019.
Other teams have come up with ideas of how to get probebly the same power out put as the red engine...
Al of these ideas haven geven a no go from FIA, if the red cars had such ways of tempering with the fuelflow they did not go by FIA behoren putting it on their cars.
So as long as your stewards don’t fined anything illegal they were clear to race!

So don’t say the red team could not have done what Mercedes has done.!
Not so long ago i remember that FIA stond for Ferrari international Asistant.....

Just my thinking...

Richard

[whatisdeletrazdoing]

I really don't see how the team that gets a special $70 million bonus for existing and has a veto on technical regulations could possibly be seen as being unfairly singled out. I am a Ferrari fan but cannot deny that they have been given every advantage they could possibly need.

[Alex_Kung]

Interesting concept and I would not think Mercedes would have put it on their car without clearing it with the FIA first.

What I find interesting about this if it is allowed to race is that other teams will have to develop the same thing to keep up and drivers will have to learn some new skills if they want to keep up.

I don't know how much this will improve the lap times but the fact that it can save on tire wear is where it can change race strategies.

This might be one of those things that everyone will say it seems so obvious (if it is deemed legal)

[stubeck]

Its already been banned for 2021.

[AJP01]

"No adjustment may be made to any suspension system while the car is in motion," states Article 10.2.3 of F1's technical regulations.

I actually don't see how it's legal right now given this regulation. Mercedes is stating that the FIA considers the steering to not be a part of the car's suspension. Huh? To me this is caught by the "any suspension system" statement. Steering, dampers, pushrod/pullrods, uprights, heck it's all suspension unless steering is somehow exempted from that.

I remember when Renault was forced to take their tuned mass damper weight out of the nosecone area because it was considered a "movable aerodynamic device". Just because it stabilized the car's ride over kerbs. Not a single part of that mass damper touched the airstream, but it's a movable aerodynamic device? Buh.

If steering isn't part of suspension, then the world is flat. I'm just sayin'....

Cheers,
AJ

[Manu]

banned for 2021...i regret that lack of creativity nowadays. Everything it under scrutiny and if it kills the show, it's forbidden. To the other team to react and adapt too !!!

[petrov27]

I got a bad feeling Mercedes may just destroy the competition this year worse than ever then leave (despite what they have said to the contrary)

[allnie]

To make a long story short. Mercedes are just much smarter and much more clever than all the other teams. They have the talent to always come up with new brilliant ideas - then afterwards the other teams try to ban it. Instead they should use their 100-200-300's of engineers to come up with similar brilliant ideas. So they had the upper hand when the season did start.

[turboF1]

Maybe they got a pass for this year because they are changing toe in and not camber? Technically toe in is in the steering plane.