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Its obvious that Red Bull have some kind of extraordinary short term performance boost trick.
This is likely to be related to the aggressive off throttle blowing of the 5 cm gap in their floor in 2 places. Apparently the normal starter motor gap is blown via channeling normal airflow. Although the Ferrari and Mclaren are said to have similar engine maps to do the same, the Red Bulls floor must be the best designed and engineered as an integral part of the design philosophy that has evolved over the last few years.
Mclaren are not using their all singing all dancing pre season octo exhaust and floor and so their current setup cannot be as important for their design philosophy as Red Bulls version is.
As the engine mapping uses about 10% more fuel per lap, it is only used in Q3. However I suspect that Red Bull and Vettel in particular have been using it a few times during the race itself as a trump card over the Mclarens. The Renault engine was always said to be more economical anyway.
Lets say Vettel has had extra speed above the Mclarens of 1 second a lap available in Q3 and during the race say 3 times this would explain why the Mclarens are not able to beat them yet on race pace.
You might say, but Mclaren and Ferrari have similar engine maps, however the Red Bulls are much much faster in those 3 laps or so. We have seen Vettel able to pull astonishing gaps in Q3 over the rest at will. I think they have even more available over a single lap and have been sandbagging, the gap could be 2 seconds.
This weekend is the last weekend that Red Bull might be able to pull their trick, once the off throttle blowing is reduced to 10% we might see Mclaren and maybe Ferrari up against a Red Bull without a nitro type boost advantage.
This is likely to be related to the aggressive off throttle blowing of the 5 cm gap in their floor in 2 places. Apparently the normal starter motor gap is blown via channeling normal airflow. Although the Ferrari and Mclaren are said to have similar engine maps to do the same, the Red Bulls floor must be the best designed and engineered as an integral part of the design philosophy that has evolved over the last few years.
Mclaren are not using their all singing all dancing pre season octo exhaust and floor and so their current setup cannot be as important for their design philosophy as Red Bulls version is.
As the engine mapping uses about 10% more fuel per lap, it is only used in Q3. However I suspect that Red Bull and Vettel in particular have been using it a few times during the race itself as a trump card over the Mclarens. The Renault engine was always said to be more economical anyway.
Lets say Vettel has had extra speed above the Mclarens of 1 second a lap available in Q3 and during the race say 3 times this would explain why the Mclarens are not able to beat them yet on race pace.
You might say, but Mclaren and Ferrari have similar engine maps, however the Red Bulls are much much faster in those 3 laps or so. We have seen Vettel able to pull astonishing gaps in Q3 over the rest at will. I think they have even more available over a single lap and have been sandbagging, the gap could be 2 seconds.
This weekend is the last weekend that Red Bull might be able to pull their trick, once the off throttle blowing is reduced to 10% we might see Mclaren and maybe Ferrari up against a Red Bull without a nitro type boost advantage.