Mercedes is confident the revised aerodyna🌄mic package it debuted during the second Formula 1 pre-season test is an “improvement”, despite facing a disrupted day of running. 

The reigning world champions 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:brought a major bodywork update to the start of the second week of winter testing in Barcelona, as Lewis Hamilꦦton emerged from the garage on Tuesday in a new-look Mercedes W10 sporting a host of new aerodynamic elements, including a bulbous nose and front wing, and revisions to the floor, side pods and endplates. 

Mercedes delayed the initial introduct💎ion of the package it intends to use at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix next month in order to capitalise on enhanced development time, with five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton reporting an instant “good step”. 

“We got through our run programme and the car was ꩵfeeling relaꦜtively good,” Hamilton said. 

“It was an improvement from last week which is a good step. The tyres are also workiღng a better now that the track temperature is a bit higher. 

“We have t👍o continue to analyse everything and keep pushiℱng.”

Valtꦯteri Bottas’ afternoon running was truncated due to an oil pressure issue that caused him to stop on-track on his out lap following the lunch break. 

After Mꦿercedes completed a power unit swap, the Finn was able to rejoin the action for the closing stages of the session as he completed just seven laps.

“Unfortunately, after four day🍌s of flawless reliability last week, I spent most of the day waiting as we had an oil pressure issue on my firstཧ outlap and had to change the power unit,” Bottas said. 

“But I'm glad I still got to do a few laps, the team did a really good job to get🎃 the car out again; it was important to get a bit of a feel for the new aero packไage. 

“My running was obviously very limited, but it seems like we've made improvements. We ne👍ed to review everything in more detail tonight and I'm looking forward to continuing our programme tomorrow morning.” 

Mercedes had originally sent Bottas out with some old-spec elements from its previous aero package to complete ꦫa comprehensive back-to-back analysis, although his early problems curtailed that plan.

“It was not exact✨ly the day we hoped 🌜for, running for the first time with the bodywork kit that we expect to use in Melbourne, with a large part of the day lost to an oil pressure issue at lunchtime,” technical director James Allison explained. 

“Nevertheless, either side of that proble꧙m we did do some useful things, finding that the car behaves a little differently with the new package. 

“We're looking forward very much to have a trou🐬ble-free day tomorrow to get a better feel for what it can do.”