Originally posted by rage2
They could've if Mercedes gave them the heads up. Apparently, that didn't happen, and now that the chassis is homologated, they won't be able to take advantage of that till next year.
It's bizarre that it's news now because this was no secret at all. Early pics of a Magneti-Marelli MGU-H + Turbo setup shown that *someone* was doing this over a year ago. A couple of us were talking about it again when the cars launched and pictures were revealed, but we couldn't tell who adopted that setup. We knew that Renault, first to reveal their PU press pics, did not do this, and in fact went with a really fucked up method where the incoming air is disturbed with a 45 degree bend into the compressor inlet.
Ferrari didn't reveal pics at all, and Mercedes revealed press pics that DIDN'T show this setup either to troll us haha.
You mean this Mercedes pic? Yeah they trolled...
You can see the trolling MGU+H in the middle between the turbine/compressor w/ cut wires stickin' out of it. Hahaha sweet.
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