Although in the first two races of this season, the Maybun team was two cars at the same time to get points, but from the competitiveness shown by W13 on the track, today's Maybun team has completely lost the king's style, not to mention that it can not catch up with the two top two Red Bull and Ferrari, and now even teams such as Alfa Romeo and Haas can bully The Messpen on the track. For the loss of competitiveness of their own cars, Mei Ben's two drivers Hamilton and Russell also expressed disappointment and helplessness in an interview, and the two drivers obviously lost confidence in their own cars.
Seeing that the two teams of Red Bull and Ferrari are about to become the protagonists of this season's F1, the reluctant Maybent Team announced that it will bring a major upgrade to its car in Australia this weekend.
It is reported that the Mayben team will bring a new tail wing and bottom plate to the Australian station. The new rear wing with the change of the base plate is a major upgrade brought by Mei Ben. Judging from the first two Bahrain and Saudi Grand Prix races, MeiBen racing did expose a lot of problems in the race, such as the problem of the bottom plate of the car, the problem of "dolphin jumping", and the problem of insufficient power unit. In particular, the dolphin jump problem that plagued Mei Ben racing has not been effectively solved, which makes its fans look both funny and helpless. In order to be able to solve the "dolphin jump" problem, Mei Ben chose a new tail wing in the Australian station, rather than directly on the car box, hoping to solve the imbalance caused by extreme downforce, and it is indeed painstaking (after all, everyone knows that the upper side box may be able to solve the problem, but mei ben racing will also completely lose the advantage on the straight, I believe this Mei Ben team has calculated the time). Coupled with the downforce (high resistance) of the tail used in the first two stops of Mei Ben, it also caused a certain loss of Mei Ben's speed, so at the Australian station, the Mei Ben team brought a new tail wing, which can be said to be an innovation.
Even if the Mayben team brings a major upgrade in Australia, it is obviously impractical for the W13 to immediately regain its competitiveness on the track and even compete with the bulls and horses. Even if the "dolphin jump" problem that plagues Mei Ben can be solved, as long as the most critical problems that plague Mei Ben racing are not really solved, Mei Ben racing may still not be able to look forward to it.
The most critical problem is that Meiben's power unit lacks competitiveness. Compared with the absolute speed of Red Bull and Ferrari, the W13 gives people the most intuitive feeling on the track, that is, no matter how it runs, it just can't catch up with the pace of "cows and horses". According to estimates, the speed of the May Ben car is now at least 0.2 seconds behind the Red Bull and Ferrari cars. Many of the problems that plagued itself were not solved, the engine of the car was not powerful enough, and if the Meben team could not find a new breakthrough in the power unit, all major upgrades would probably be in vain. So the Maybun team can't raise the speed to a level with Red Bull and Ferrari, and really can't expect much!