These rear diffusers do not efficiently increase airflow out the back of the vehicle from under the vehicle. They simply just add dead weight to the car and in some cases even increase turbulent air under the car thus reducing efficiency by increasing drag.

The diffuser acts as an expansion chamber to manage the air as it exits from underneath the car and reintegrates it with higher-pressure ambient air. Smoothing this transition reduces turbulence and drag in the car’s wake and improves airflow under the car.

A diffuser, in an automotive context, is a shaped section of the car rear which improves the car’s aerodynamic properties by enhancing the transition between the high-velocity airflow underneath the car and the much slower freestream airflow of the ambient atmosphere.

As already mentioned, the double diffuser raised the height of the diffuser by 125 mm. This may not seem like much, but it increased downforce by a huge amount. However, it wasn’t easy to integrate into the car.

The rules introduced for 2009 had set about limiting the dimensions of the diffuser to 1000mm wide, 175mm tall and 350mm long. The use of the double diffuser arrangement hinged on the wording on article 3.12. In this case, the politics failed them, as they were unable to lobby for the double diffuser’s removal.

The former Mercedes team principal Brawn, the man who brought Hamilton to the Silver Arrows, says he left three years ago because he could not trust Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda. Meanwhile Hamilton himself will take part in Thursday’s official FIA press conference with drivers, the traditional launch of the race weekend.

“I flew to Stuttgart with only my helmet, got in that car and just went for it.” On a one-year contract, she raced for the team for seven years. While doing so, she met her husband, Toto Wolff, a major F1 investor who also sat on the Williams board.

Why Wolff didn’t leave Mercedes F1 when he could have. The anticipation around Lewis Hamilton’s new contract, and it only being a one-year deal, meant another key element of uncertainty around Mercedes’ Formula 1 team from 2020 has been swiftly forgotten.

It leaves one free seat at Mercedes for 2022, with Bottas out of contract and facing competition from Mercedes junior George Russell to be Hamilton’s team-mate next year. Mercedes has indicated it would look to make a decision over the summer.

Mercedes parent company Daimler has confirmed it never considered withdrawing from Formula One, despite rumours earlier this year that it was weighing up its options.

Mercedes have been dominant in Formula 1 for a number of years now due to the fact that the other competition can not get up to their standard, it then transforms into some very boring racing in fact its only been the last 2 races that sky sports have really focused on the front 2 racing cars so much that Hamilton was …