Originally Posted by
Jay_
Now the car was sat there with a honda power plant with no more supplied ,so when Brawn got the merc engine deal they had redesign the rear end as the engine sat to high so they added 2 inched to the rear and fitted the deffuser which helped to stable the car and also see brawn in court
Technically the merc powerplant was a handicap to the chassis design, its COG was to high, cooling unoptimized and was was generally a bit of a hatchet job.
However the performance and reliability of the unit more than made up for this.