In the sensitive world of aerodynamics, 15mm is all it takes to send you to the back of the pack. Just ask McLaren. 😦
Last summer the teams and the FIA agreed to a rise of 15mm in floor edge height as part of an attempt to address porpoising.decided that it would be difficult to recover performance with the 2023 car given the package it was running.
"That sounds very small, but these floors are huge and incredibly sensitive. Look at how much downforce it generates, massive. So when we did it on our car, it actually gave us a much bigger loss than anticipated. It seems to have affected different teams in different ways. "If you look at last year, there were two camps beginning to develop. One which we were in, and one which probably the majority of teams were in," he explained."And when we took that [15mm] step, it was a really big knock for us.
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