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Hmmmmm...
"GPS data from Singapore & Sochi shows Ferrari doesn't deploy that exceptional power "boost" on the straights anymore. According to our information FIA fitted a 2nd sensor to monitor battery energy output. Is there a connection?"
https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/1047045724628815872
Vai uma confusão para aqueles lados, porque também se alega as suspensões dos Mercedes:
These days we talk a lot about the rear suspension of the Mercedes, with systems at the limit of legality, which would have pushed the Silver Arrows to take the upper hand over rivals in the last two GPs. From Germany, however, come via Auto Motor und Sport, rumors about the installation of a second sensor to control the flow of energy output from the batteries of Ferrari engines. Because we use the plural, because the power unit of the Cavallino is the only one that uses in this context a specific split on the accumulators. The FIA has long been engaged in monitoring this particular architecture and would have adopted a more precise method for measuring the aforementioned flow.
All this even if the race director Charlie Whiting has repeatedly stated that the Italian power unit was regular regarding the use of the battery, because the production of electricity was part of the 4 Megajoules per lap allowed by the regulation and never exceeded 120Kw of maximum output power of the MGU-K. The controls of the sports governing body, however, continued, since according to the rumors it was not only the quantity of energy that was produced, but when and how. From Singapore, the advantage on the straight of the Ferrari has suddenly disappeared and the confirmation came also from the Renault team principal, Cyril Abiteboul: "We see it clearly in our GPS measurements". In qualifying at Sochi, surveys of sector speeds indicated a certain balance between the two leaders of the championship, whereas previously it was the Red to have something more. Obviously this is speculation, because both in Marina Bay and in Russia the Ferrari has been less performing even in the slow corners and from here the hypothesis arose that the new Mercedes suspension had produced the 'miracle'.
Despite this evidence and the undisputed progress of the Silver Arrow also in tire management, Abiteboul is always providing an interesting interpretation of the lack of traction that the SF71H suffered: "If they had less power, they could not be able to drive with the same adjustment of the wings before and therefore had to decrease the aerodynamic load "- added the transalpine engineer of Losanga. The boost advantage of the Ferrari power unit would have been between 180 and 260 kilometers per hour, while now it would not be like that anymore. Are the opponents to have recovered or is actually Ferrari to have lost its supremacy? From the FIA environments filters the indiscretion that the second sensor of energy flow detection of the battery has been installed on all the power units produced by the Maranello house. In this way there would be greater accuracy for what we intend to measure.
When asked by the same German media about the position of the second sensor, the FIA men gave no answer. Also from Renault we learn that Ferrari's competitors have actively pushed the case, because they were not able to understand where it came from that surplus of power that no one was able to replicate. It has been possible to demonstrate that with the old method the flow of energy produced by split batteries could not be measured without the benefit of the doubt. Consequently, to be safe from a regulatory point of view, the process has been further elaborated. If it was this or not to clip the wings of the Ferrari in comparison with the Mercedes is a fact to be demonstrated.
In Sochi, however, the W09 has been equipped with a new rear suspension, which, however, has little visible changes as they are incorporated by the gearbox. Recall that the car is equipped with a third hydraulic element, thanks to which you can control the height from the ground.
He discusses the fact that technicians have managed to "simulate a steering wheel effect", an idea taken up and developed by Benetton B193B. The effect of the steering wheels could be obtained by an excellent balance between differential, engine mapping and the brake-by-wire system of the hydraulic suspension.
The role of the third element on the W09 is extremely crucial, since being a car very sensitive to rolling, the more it manages to maintain a constant ground height, the more aerodynamic it can generate despite the lower rake angle among all rival cars.