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Originally Posted by GuidoK
Have you watched them using the DAS?
The point is that if you can adjust toe, you can adjust it to higer top speed on the straights (less toe angle=less tyre friction=more efficiency) and more grip in the corner (more toe angle) (especially during braking). You saw them mostly changing their toe at the end of a straight before entering the corner. THey change their toe from staightline setting to corner setting. They do that with only one intent, that the one setting works better in a straight line and the other in corners/during braking. The setting in a straight line has only one goal (there is only one goal in the straight: top speed)
Fact of the matter is that for now it looks like the supremacy of the MERC's is partly gone and to me all rule changes effect all cars except the banning of DAS.
As the chassis have been carried over from last year due to covid, the changes on the cars are very very little compared to normal season changes, so that RB has made such a gain on MERC shows something. Merc has lost it's edge (and 'coincidentally' also their very controverisal DAS system)
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Not sure that makes sense.
Firstly, if the point of DAS was for a significant improvement in straight line speed then all teams would have developed and fitted the device...they didn't because that wasn't the point.
DAS had one main benefit, to momentarily adjust the front tyres to toe-in, to add heat evenly to the front tyres during safety car periods and other times when the front tyres had dropped out of the optimum temperature window.
DAS was presented to the FIA before the start of the season and cleared for use.
Even though it was not against the rules it was only allowed for use for one season before being excluded, under rules specifically set out to cover new innovations.
The ban on DAS didn't reduce the Merc cars performance except where front tyre warm up was critical.
The changes to the rear floor area for 2021 however was specifically introduced to reduce performance of cars who used a low rake design such as Mercedes.