tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Is there an article discussing this? Sounds interesting. I always thought that the home team has an engine advantage, but in case of e.g. Ferrari, it was always negated. I am also not quite sure what you mean by layout, as I guess that the regulations basically fix all that and make it quite different. I also heard that they not only use the same engine but also the same gear and other engine related stuff?
Futhermore, I still think that the Merc car is very efficient wrt tyre wear and aerodynamics. I can only speculate about the RB...it just gets overshadowed at the moment and it is difficult to classify the different parts of a car. It could be that RB has the best aerodynamics because of Adrian Newey :smile:
That was probably the case in the days when teams could use multiple engines per weekend and do all the testing they liked. With limited production the works teams would obviously get the latest specs first.
The current engines all have to be homoligated and with no testing or development you want all your engines to be the same to collect as much relevant data as possible.