How Racing Point is gambling on a Mercedes-inspired design
Racing Point has seemingly looked at last year's title-winning Mercedes concept for its new RP20. Eschewing a design philosophy that it's familiar with has its risks, but gambling in the last year of the current F1 ruleset also could reap big rewards
Back in 1996, mankind finally broke the boundaries between science fiction and reality. A group of scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland took the nucleus from a sheep's mammary gland cell, transferred it into an egg cell and implanted it into a surrogate mother. And so began the birth of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal.
Some 24 years later, a group of engineers based at Racing Point's facilities presumably took inspiration from Dolly's manufactured birth. They took the nucleus of Mercedes' 2019 W10 design, transferred it into the team's factory at Silverstone, then implanted it into its own design ethos and development process. Thus began the birth of the new Racing Point RP20.
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Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.
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