Mercedes are cautious over their chances of replicating their Silverstone performance at this weekend’s F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Merced꧃es have enjoyed a remarkable upturn in form in recent weeks, ta🐷king two victories.

At the British Grand Prix last time out, Mercedes locked the front row ou💟𝓀t on merit and led a 1-2 during the dry phase of the race.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton converted that into his first F1 victory since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, confirming Mercedes’ progress i♕s genui♍ne.

However, with the Hungaroring track layout completely different to Silverstone’s - and track conditions expected to be s💯ignificantly warmer, Mercedes are unsure whether they will be able to compete with Red Bull and McLaren.

Speaking on the , Mercedes trackside engineering chief Andrew Shovlin said: “Well we certai🐻nly don’t think we won the last👍 one, let’s win the next one. It almost makes you a bit more nervous that maintaining that performance we had in Silverstone is going to be very difficult.

“If you look at what is the big difference for Hungary is probably this is the test of whether or not we have got on top of our long run performance in hot conditions because in Barcelona and in Austria, we couldn’t match Lando or Max on the long run - both those two cars were well ahead of us. We🦂 hopefully have made a bit of progress.”

Mercedes were comfortably behind the top two teams in Spaꦅin and♛ Austria - where conditions were much warmer.

While George Russell was able to win at the Red Bull Ring, thanks to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s clash with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris, there was a clear deficit.

Shovlin is unsu♔re Mercedes have reduced that g🍬ap just yet.

“If you look at the size of the gap at tho🎀se two previous races, I’d be surprised if we can pull it in that significantly but then 🐭again, we were surprised by the first stint at Silverstone,” he added.

“We didn’t think in that dry bit of the race we’d be able to break away. We thought that it🍌 would be like Barcelona where George got into the lead and the🃏n he’s got the two of them in his gearbox.

“That track throws up different demands. We can simulate some of those problems. We know the type of issues it will thro🐲w our way. We will just put our effort into the preparation side and make sure we can start with the best setup that we can. How do we develop it from there?”