After nearly two full seasons of competitive struggles, Mercedesꦚ are set to fundamentally overhaul their car design for 2024 in a bid to get back on level terms with runway F1 leaders Red Bull. 

Mercedes’ W14 car has been plagued by handling and balance inconsistencies that have left drivers 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell l๊acking confidence, particuꦆlarly in high-speed corners. 

꧟Those weaknesses are a major focus in the development of Mercedes’ 2024 c👍hallenger. 

"We are changing the car quite considerably for next year," Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Shovlin explained at the Japanese Gra𒀰nd Pಞrix. 

"Whether or not we can solve all the issues that we've 𝓰got on the handling, that will depend on a number of projects delivering.

"Those projects are underway. They are not co🃏mplete, but we have got some good directions to try and improve that.”

Shovlin added: “The car will be different. We have made a lot of changes to it but it's very early in the development of the new car to be able to ⛄say we've got it sorted.

"When we launched our best cars, 2015 or 2019, those years, we d🌼idn't know they were going to be great cars whꦅen we developed them, you are just working as hard as you can trying to find as much performance as you can.

"On a lot of those cars, we missed targets by quite a chunk in terms of performance but what we do know is that if you don't set very ambitious targets, you're probably not settin♏g them high enough.”

Shovlin also🦹 co🐼nfirmed that Mercedes will not be “clinging on to any concepts that we’ve had before”. 

That will come as welcome news to seven-time world champion Hamilton, who has been ‘beating the drum’ to his Mercedes team about fixing ꦇthe problems with their current car. 

"I know what the problem is; it's ju🐼st getting the guys to make the changes,” Hamilton said in Japan. “I try to a✱rgue my point but it is not my job to design the car.

"I am hopeful they do the job but it is goin�⛄�g to take real changes real quick."

Hamilton16♓8澳洲5最新开奖结果: paid a visit to see Mercedes' designers during a trip to the factory following the Japan🐓ese Grand Prix. 💦;