Mercedes admit they nonetheless aren’t positive the brand new ground they launched on the Belgian Grand Prix is working as meant.
The workforce’s automobiles completed seventh and eighth at Zandvoort, the primary time they ran the brand new ground in a race. The drivers described the automobile’s dealing with as troublesome and after the race Lewis Hamilton stated they wanted to look into “whether or not our improve is definitely delivering or not.”
Mercedes’ technical director James Allison admitted they nonetheless “don’t absolutely know” whether or not the ground is performing because it ought to.
“You possibly can take some simple measurements and say the downforce it was speculated to ship appeared prefer it was there,” he stated in a video launched by the workforce. “So at one degree you possibly can take consolation that it labored as anticipated.
“However numerous the tempo of the automobiles, on this 12 months significantly, is right down to how nicely they deal with. So it’s not only a query of does your aero bundle ship you downforce, however is it delivering you the balanced automobile that you just want by the corners? Is it delivering you the balanced automobile you want from high-speed to low-speed?
“We positively know that we didn’t have a well-balanced automobile this weekend. That’s the place most of our tempo went. Whether or not that was the brand new ground, the brand new aero bundle or not, we have to preserve an open thoughts and it’s one thing we might want to revisit in future races.
“So proper now, we all know it measured the downforce, however we’re not sure that it delivered good steadiness. One thing we have to examine as we go on by the 12 months.”
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Mercedes gained three of the 4 rounds earlier than they raced with the brand new ground. Allison stated the workforce hadn’t bought the set-up proper at Zandvoort.
“It gained’t be so simple as the observe doesn’t go well with the automobile. Whether or not or not you might have an excellent weekend depends on an enormous variety of issues and all of them need to be just about close to dead-on proper to get what you name the true tempo of the automobile out.
“Within the run as much as the shutdown, we managed to hit our stride just about at each observe. We form of went a bit of bit off the rails in Spa, however managed to tug it again simply in time.
“This weekend in Zandvoort, with the climate the best way it was on the Friday and the choices we took in a single day, we simply didn’t handle to get into the groove that we would have liked to get the very best from the automobile. And small errors, small errors in set-up will flip you from being actually fairly aggressive into fairly mediocre. It’s tight on the prime and we didn’t get it proper this weekend and had a mediocre end result as a consequence.”
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