Mercedes believes it is no longer stuck in a vicious cycle with its car development afteꦏr an encouraging start to the 2025 Formu꧑la 1 season.

Mercedes has fail🌼ed to mount a title challe🤡nge in the new ground-effect era of F1, having previously been the series’ dominant force between 2014-2021.

In each of the last three years, the German manufacturer started the season on the back foot, and any improvement ඣ♉it made on one side of the car over the course of the campaign compromised its performance in another area.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell previously described the situation as “falling into a trap”, as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mercedes kept chasing speed from different parts of the car 💃without making enough improvements to the overall package.

However, after scoring two podiums in the opening two rounds of the seaso🍒n, the Bඣrackley-based squad is now confident that it has found a fix for the recurring problem in 2025.

“It is rea🐟lly quite like [Russell] describes, where we would get a bit fixated on one t♏hing and then inadvertently introduce a new problem,” the team’s trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin said.

“Well, these regulations are quite difficult to make a car that’s nicely balanced over a range of circuits, a range of different corner speeds — a♚nd being in control of that through your development is the key. As you change one area, you can affect another.

“It was really just 🍸about having much tighter control on that loop. That meant the car that rolled out in Bahrain was what we were hoไping to see.”

Mercedes’ 2024 campaign was plagued by inconsistency, with Russell and teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton failing to race regularl🌸y at the fro🉐nt against Red Bull and McLaren.

The Brackley-based squad scored three victories in four races just before the summer break, plus a 1-2 finish at th🌌e Las Vegas GP later in the year. But there were also several occasions where the Brackley-based team failed to finish inside the top five.

The team eventually finished fourth in the constructors’ championship, more than 100 points adrift of third-placed Red Bull.

The💙 W15 was also very sensitive to temperature, with its performance dropping in hotter condition🔥s and improving when the track was cooler.

Shovlin explained that Mercedes spent a lot of time on the simulato🍷r during the off-season to build a car that is consistent across a wide variety of tracks.

“Where we’ve definitely done a better job is with the simulator work over the course🥀 of the winter, tracking the development of the car, making sure that the solutions we’re bringing to balance problems are appropriate for the balance problems we’re going to end up with,♑” he said.

“T🐟hat whole process has been much more together than we’ve had in recent ye🌱ars. There were no surprises with winter testing.

“As we’re going through these early races, it’s encouraging that we’re seeing what we expect to see. As I said, there’s still work to do to catch McLaren, but that’ll just b🦩e the normal development work.”

Mercedes, which has signed rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andrea Kimi Antonelli to partner Russell this year, currently sits second in the constructors' championship behind runnaway leader McLaren.