Could a small rule change hurt Mercedes in F1 2023?
Mercedes endured their worst year inꦉ F1 since 2012, registering💝 just one victory and one pole position in the entire season.
They finished🐭 third in the constructors’ championship, well behind eventual winners Red Bull.
Mercedes were caught out by the new regulations at the start of the season, struggling with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising phenomenon.
Eventually, Mercedes got on top of it and reduced th🦹e deficit t𒀰o Red Bull and Ferrari significantly by the end of the year.
However, for 2023, a new regulation chan♏ge could set back their hopes of progressing and re-emerging as a dominant force.
In a bid to reduce the teams’ ability to run their cars as close to the track as possible, the FIA has increased the outer floor edges by 15 millimet🦂res with no more than five millimetres vertical deflection when a 250N lᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoad is applied downwards as well as 5 millimetre vertically when the same load is applied upwards.
Mercedes stru💯ggled to get their W13 working when running a higher ride height in 2022 - something that could catch them out.
"There's a regulation change next year, which is small but not insignificant in terms of the right height and tꩵhe cars have all got to run at a higher ride height," Chandhok said.
"Which is the one team historically that hasn't run at a high ride height? The brain power th𓂃at won all those world championships is still there in Brackley and Brixworth. But I don't think it's as easy to fix yet as you might think."
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