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I'd be interested to know what that means really - all cars have used 'chemical' cooling for decades because plain water is rubbish at transferring heat in comparison.

who came up with those Mercedes sidepods

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Even my streetcar has chemical coolant but it also has a relative big radiator in the front. And up until this season most cars had relative big radiators in the sidepods.

If they can make it this small, they found a better chemical coolant. I'm by no means an expert but if this small area is enough it potentially is some nasty stuff out in the open.
Normal garages cant leak your coolant in the environment. So what about this stuff?

After seeing the new Merc and the great variation of car designs, I want to say thank you to all the designers who have basically said fuck you to Ross Brawn and his and the FIA's desire to basically create a spec series. He has just admitted on Sky Sports F1 that they outlawed 100's of design possibilities, and is still surprised at what the outcomes are.

So thank you to the designers who have proven that they are way smarter than the FIA.

That makes sense, yeah - some kind of new fluid that allows for smaller radiators. A lot of teams have also been using the roll hoop inlet more.

you can't expect a bunch of clever engineers to produce a spec series just because the rule makers say so

engineers in secret rooms have been producing magic ever since the Brabham Fan Car

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The sneaky bastards, I love it. Thought it was a photoshopped meme at first.

It looks really weird from the front. You can also notice that they bulged up the part behind the driver's head. The total volume is clearly lower than other teams, but it's also reorganized differently which makes it seem even more radical.

Ah, ok! It looks like they have moved more of the cooling apparatus above and around the engine, which is the most extreme version of what a lot of teams have been doing.

An interesting comment from Ross Brawn, though:


I wonder if they will be taking a closer look at the now-exposed side impact spars, which now look a little too capable of punching into other cars in a side impact.

Merc saw Red Bull's and Ferrari's crazy sidepods and decided they weren't going to be outdone. Looking forward to a year of constant protests

hah so Mercedes is going for a tight fit

but again, the main issue regarding "chemical coolants" is: are they different from our regular pink coolants we usually have on cooling systems?

Because you know, is the cheapest way to deal with rodents in grain silos, you just mix a bit of grain with that sweet antifreeze and see the silo clustered with dead rats by the morning, something that can make Sir Lewis quite disturbed

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I'm sure Lewis is already aware that F1 isn't powered by warm hugs and gentle kisses

and nothing there is tested on animals

although there are some animals driving once in a while

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That Merc looks insane. Will probably lap the field in Bahrain.

Funny that Brawn didn´t anticipate this. He won the 2009 championship because he outsmarted the rulemakers, and now he´s surprised that he is outsmarted himself

If you actually read the full interview instead of a tweet of one quote, seems like Ross was very much expecting creative interpretation of the new rules.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/braw ... s/8867148/







Christ this season needs to get underway so we can stop imagining controversy.

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I'm getting a bit of a Newey McLaren vibe from it, but right now more MP4-18 than MP4-13. It looked squirrely af when Lewis was driving this morning.

Stroll has a broken aero rake on the back of his car. It seems to have wedged between the rear-left wheel and the chassis.

The aerorake on the Aston broke and fell off...

It also porpoises more than most so I guess the FIA aren't going to do anything about that and just tell the drivers to live with it?

I fully expect there to be more crashes late race due to driver fatigue caused by nearly 2 hours of constant bumping around like you're driving at speed on a road full of potholes.....on a tractor

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