Toto Wolff says Mercedes avoided ‘nasty surprises’ with Monaco GP F1 upgrades
A heavily-🃏revised W14 - featuring a ne🌌w sidepod design - made its first appearance in Monaco after the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, where the package was originally meant to be introduced, was cancelled due to deadly flooding in the region.
Monaco is not normall✤y a track where teams would debut major upgrades and the circuit’s unique nature and layout provided an additional challenge for Mercedes.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton finished fourth in Sunday's grand prix, one place ahead of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell.
Although Wolff conceded it was “impossibl🍒e” to get a true read on the package in Monaco, he was pleased the team did not experience any unforeseen troubles.&nbܫsp;
“It is impossible to evaluate our upgrades on a circuit like Monaco, but at least we didn’t have any nasty surprises,” Wolff said🅺.
The focus now turns to this weekend’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona, where Mercedes hope to properly evaluate their upda𝓀ted 2023 challenger at a more conventional tꦯrack.
“Spain will provide an opportunity for us to establish💃 a new baseline with the W14,” Wolff continue🐬d.
“It is a t♛rack that we are familiar with, although the removal of the final chicane will make it a much quicker lap.
“It comprises a wide r🐈ange of corner types; that provides a gooꦉd opportunity for us to learn about the new package.
“We don’t ꦅexpect to see a step change in per✱formance, but we’re hopeful it will provide a more stable platform.”
Mercedes technical director James Allison confirmed the team will continue their aggressive upgrade push by bringing new pa🍨rts to Barcelona.
“We certainly will settle back and look at what the Monaco upgrade package has brought us at a more normal track, but we will also push on in parallel with a whole ℱbunch more things,” Allison said in Mercedes’ post-Monaco debrief.
“So, there will be a little bit we’re bringing t😼o Barcelona and many more things in the races that follow.
“We can’t afford just to do everything sequentially. Alth🐈ough there’s a sort of academic purity to that, it’s just too slow a way of going ahead, so the upgrades will ke🦩ep coming.
“Hopefully a decent package to build upon what we put on the track in in Monaco, and then we just step forward from ꦬhere up to the summer break and beyond.”
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