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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
The best aero tweak this year is on the Mercedes cars (Schumacher and Rosberg). When their DRS activates, the end plate of the moveable wing element exposes an air inlet on the main wing end plate. They have ducts going all the way through the car to the front wing. Everyone else's DRS reduces the area of the rear wing, but the Mercedes also stalls out the front wing, reducing drag even further. They get an even bigger benefit in qualifying, where they can use it whenever they want.
Touching the brakes disables the DRS, bringing the downforce back at the end of the straight to help with braking and cornering.
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Schumacher was forced out of the race when the system failed on him.The crew did everything they could with compressed air to unclog the system,but to no avail.
Another car had a wad of tire rubber stuck to the leading edge of it's rear lower spoiler and the announcers said that the wing performance would be severely compromised with this excrescence fouling the airflow.
Pretty high strung mounts!