The underfloor of Hamilton's Mercedes was captured on camera following his crash in final MonacoGP practice. Wolff joked that circuit act “Cirque du Soleil” were involved in craning his F1 car.
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has joked that famed circus act “Cirque du Soleil” was responsible for craning Lewis Hamilton’s car in Monaco to reveal its ground-effect floor design.Hamilton hit the barriers late in final practice on Saturday to trigger a red flag. As his W14 was recovered, it was raised several storeys high to allow photographers to capture the underbody design.
With engineers estimating that 60% of car performance is owed to the floor, following the 2022 shift to ground-effects, the underbody aerodynamics have been a particularly closely guarded secret. Teams have specially fitted covers that cloak the floor of the car when they are recovered and hoisted onto flatbed trucks., which has been heavily updated for Monaco, Wolff joked that circus company “Cirque du Soleil” must have been in town.“Honestly, that I don’t even comprehend. The car was on the road.“That was suboptimum for us, to say the least.”Wolff did underline that he was making the comment in jest and praised the principality marshals, saying that “everybody is doing their best”.
Wolff noted that the RB19 had stayed flat when craned as opposed to the W14, which fell rearwards due to its weight bias from the point it was tethered.The revised W14 clocked sixth and eighth in qualifying, with Hamilton pipping team-mateWolff reckoned the performance of the upgrades had not thrown any surprises with how they ran in real-world conditions but acknowledged the team showing was “not good”.] with both drivers having less than positive Q3s is solid. It’s actually OK.
“With Lewis and George, if you would have put the last lap together, we would have played the top six. Maybe the top four. That’s OK.”
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