Toto Wolff says Mercedes avoided ‘nasty surprises’ with Monaco GP F1 upgrades
A heavily-revised W14 - f🅷eaturing a new 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.
Moဣnaco is not normally a track where teams would debut major upgrades and the circuit’s unique nature and layout provided an additional challenge for Mercedes.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished fourth in Sunday's grand prix, one place ahead of teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.
Although Wolff conceded it was “impossible” to get a true read on the packag🍸e in Monaco, he was pleased the team did not experience any unforeseen troubles.🅷
“It i𓃲s impossible to evaluate our upgrades on a c😼ircuit like Monaco, but at least we didn’t have any nasty surprises,” Wolff said.
The focus now turns to this weekend’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Spanish Grand Prix at Barc🐽elona, where Mercedes hope to properly evaluate their updated 2023 challenger at a more conventional track.
“Spain will provide an opportunity for us to esꦉtablish a new baseline with the W14,” Wolff continued.
“It is a track that we are familiar with, althoug♋h the removal of the final chicane will make it a much quicker 𒐪lap.
“It comprises a wide range of corner t🐼ypes; that provides a good opportunity for us to lear💙n about the new package.
“We don’t expect to see a step change in performance, 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 parts to Bar🍰celona🧔.
“We certainly will settle back and look at what the Monaco upgrade pa🀅ckage has brought us at a more normal track, but we will also push on in parallel with a wಌhole bunch more things,” Allison said in Mercedes’ post-Monaco debrief.
“So, t⛦here will be a little bit we’re bringing to Bꦚarcelona and many more things in the races that follow.
“We can’t afford just to do everything sequentially. Although there’s a sort of academic purity to that, it’𒅌s just too slow a way of going ahead, so the uꦛpgrades will keep coming.
“Hopefully a decent package to build upon what we put on the track in in Monaco, 🅘and then we just step forward from here up to the summ♎er break and beyond.”
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