🧔Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn has admitted that the team's problems in the European Grand Prix could be attributed to its desire to get a version of Red Bull's 'bl♔own diffuser' working as quickly as possible.

Speaking on the eve o▨f the British Grand Prix, where both Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher showed better qualifying form, Brawn accepted that the team had allowed itself to be distracted by the latest additions to the WO1, and actually went backwards.

"We had a number of problems which were very distracting over the weekend and we didn't do the fundamentals," he told reporters at Silverstone, "When you don't do the fundamentals, you slip behind a few tenths and that's it. You saw with McLaren yesterday, it's not an easy technolog🌊y to get on top of."

Brawn, who won both titles with his eponymous team in 2009 before sellinꦗg up to Mercedes, admitted that work was continuing on the system, with further evolutions scheduled to come online in coming races.

"I think, this weekend, we have learned a lo🐽t more about it,🦩 and we'll take another careful step with it in Hockenheim," he confirmed, "This weekend, we did a sensible job with the bits we have, whereas in Valencia we lost control of the situation - I lost control of the situation in terms of getting the best out of what we had. We could have ditched the system on Friday and gone back to something we knew, but we persevered and that probably cost us some performance in the race.

"We have now got everything working properly, so we are not wrapping wishbones in insulation and the sort of stuff we were having to do in Valencia. We have go🐲t those problems solved, touch wood, and are able to focus on getting the performance out of the car that's there."

After bothꦓ missing the top ten in qualifying ꦛin Spain, Rosberg and Schumacher claimed fifth and tenth respectively at Silverstone, the German admitting to a mistake on his fastest lap, and Brawn is confident that points should be on the menu this weekend.

"It's not the fastest car on the circuit, but it's a pretty reasonable car,💞" he n𒐪oted, "In Valencia, we just didn't get that performance out of it. Here, we've made a better job."