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Login to replyBtwnDitches
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Someone besides Massa needs to evaluate the data and report the performance differences between Williams and Mercedes cars on the track. A difference of 1.4 seconds sounds pretty high for "same PU's" if one believes (as I do) that Williams is also pretty astute in wind-tunneling & integrating wheel and chassis appointments and the overall aerodynamics packaging of its 2015 cars. If those studies confirm that the difference is high, then a difference betwen Mercedes and "customer" motors begins to re-appear despite the "logic" of the points argues by Mercedes in the last paragraph.
Just because some ways of doing things sounds most efficient, economical or feasible doesn't mean that they are practiced. Mercedes has enough secrets built into its new PUs to go to exceptional lengths to shield them.
khasmir
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I find it hard to believe that. It has been done many times in the past, one works engine and a customer version. The works version using a more aggressive development path but with more risk of problems. Something that a works team can handle but would otherwise be too much of a risk to piss off your customers.
And I don't buy the logistics excuse. They don't need a whole warehouse with parts, all parts are stored digitally as CAD drawings. If they need a certain part they just pull up the plans, and send it to the C&C machine.
But even if they are mechanically the same, I'm sure Mercedes has some tricks up their sleeves that they are not sharing with their customers.