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Mercedes went for 'revolution' rather than 'evolution'!💡

🟡Completely different sidepods inlets, even vs their mid-season update
🟣Much more inclined upper wishbone
🔴Different nose-wing attachment point
⚪️Wing looks very elaborate

Will they make this concept work?🤔

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In 2023, Lewis Hamilton was critical about how much forward the Mercedes' cockpit was located...

The team seems to have followed his input for the W15💡

The cockpit seems to have moved backwards (by 100mm, according to @Giorgio_Piola).

Just an optical effect?🤔

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Stable rules➡️Convergence in design💡

The new Aston Martin AMR24 and Ferrari SF24 look much more similar than in the previous years 🔍

As sub-optimal design choices are discarded, engineers are left with fewer options❌

Will we see a tighter field this year?🤔

The new RB20 has… NO SIDEPODS INLETS?!?😜

Definitely a trolling act by their graphic designers…

What are we going to call this? The ‘no-pods’?🤔👀

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SF24 vs RB20🔎

Notable differences👇
🟢Push vs Pull-Rod
Carbon fibre's tensile strength is higher: look at how thin RedBull's rod is!➡️Lower mass and airflow disruption
🟣Different wishbone inclination
⚪️Underbite vs Overbite
🟠Different upper-plane load distribution
Not to mention each team's signature difference: smaller triangular vs larger circular airscope

The 🟠 McLaren MCL38 and 🔵Red Bull Racing RB20 share several traits💡

✅Downwashing sidepods
✅Early, deep undercut
✅Overbite (shorter on the McL)
✅Cannon shoulders
✅Round, large airscope

Main differences:
❌Sidepods inlets
❌Rear wing design

Can you spot a few more?😏

FRONT SUSPENSIONS COMPARISON

PULL-ROD:
🟠McL
🔵RB

PUSH-ROD:
🟢Aston
⚫️Mercedes
🔴Ferrari

No team changed architecture vs last year: they either thought they made the right choice OR that the costs and learning curve associated with a change weren't worth it.

Time will tell!

FRONT WINGS

💡Mercedes might have found a loophole!

By not structurally attaching the uppermost element to the nose, they might recreate the infamous 'Y250' vortex, which improves underbody efficiency👌

I can definitely see the other teams to get noisy about this🤬

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F1 2024 SIDEPODS INLETS💡

Teams are still opting for widely different designs after 2 years with stable regulations!

Merc, Aston and McL have way different shapes despite sharing the engine➡️There's probably no 'optimal' design

Do you think that I got RB's inlets right?🤔

RedBull’s ‘Shark Mouth’ Sidepods inlets!🦈

The inlet area looks minimal from the front due to the overbite (the part of bodywork that goes over it, partly covering from the front).

Never seen before💡

Not even one day into testing, and we already have the first photo of a 2024 floor!💡

Different angles, but the rear diffuser ramp seems quite similar to last year

[📸: Motorsport Images]
Bottom photo by @jiglesiash11

MINISECTORS - DAY 1

🔵VER: quickest in over 3/4 of the lap➡️1.1s gap over NOR! No clear weaknesses so far

🟠NOR: quickest braking into T4

🔴SAI had the best top speed into T14 (+1km/h vs VER, +4km/h vs NOR)

PUs turned way off: just 315km/h top speed (vs 323km/h in quali)

TOP SPEEDS - DAY 1
(On each car's fastest lap)

Top speeds are very low compared to last quali➡️Teams way down on power

⚪️Haas' top speed dropped the most (-18km/h)
🔵VCARB's (lol) the least (-6km/h), but RedBull is close, too (-8)... higher PU mode than most or improved drag?🤔

3 teams have already gone quicker than in 2023 quali!💡

LAPTIME CHANGE (s)
McL -0.40✅
Ferrari -0.08✅
VCARB -0.04✅
Merc +0.73
Sauber +0.78
RedBull +0.97
Alpine +1.08
Williams +1.12
Aston +1.69
Haas +5.80 (Tyre testing)

SAI was quickest (C4 tyres, softer than quali's C3)

Consider that the early-2023 McLaren had terrible performance, which explains part of the improvement. Same for the AlphaTauri

Ferrari instead was already a competitive car (on a single lap)