Not sure how is the time in the south, but up here it's been raining every day...well, just cloudy at the moment...i've just check the weather and looks like it will be sunny at portimão for the rest of the week, so no big chances of rain...
Isn't that a massive part, the floor? So they were busy in their autoclave and then had to rebuild the entire car on top of it from scratch? Right? Or is it the other way round and you attach/bolt on the floor to the monocoque?
You attach/bolt on the floor to the monocoque. Also, they did some mods to the rear diffuser area as well but no pics...yet. I've been waiting for those.
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So they’ve introduced the floor and diffuser designed to the 2021 rules—which are supposed to reduce downforce by 10%—and yet they expect to be faster?! So either these mods are just to get wind tunnel correlation and will be removed after Friday practice or the previous floor and diffuser was pretty bad!
So far, for me, the track is the star. It gives all the drivers lots of chances to make mistakes. The first lap in turns 1 and 4 should be exciting and might be a "Goldilocks" moments of finding the balance between too ambitious and too cautious.
