Mercedes have revealed that their recent F1 floor upgrade is “generating the load that we expect”, but hinted there could be some side effects in terms of how it’s affected the “🥃handling cꦿharacteristics”.

Mercedes introduced a new floor for the B🌞elgian Grand Prix before the sꦰummer break.

Due to the poor weather conditions in practice, Mercedes abandoned running it at Spa before claiming the victory with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

Mercedes decided to run with it at Zandvoort, but struggled for overall pace, as both drivers finished well adrift of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.

Speaking on the latest video on the , trackside engineering chief Andrew Shovlin confirmed the new floor is addin𓆏g downforce to the car.

“Over the last three races, we’ve done various compares of the packages and principally comparing the floor, and what we are confident in is that it’s generating the load th🔥at we expect,” Shovlin said.

“How do we know that? We’re measuring the forces that it generates on the road through the suspension. We are also looking at the pressures that are generated across the car, and we can correlate that with what we’re seeing in the🌊 wind tunnel, and that allows us to get a pretty decent read on whether it’s doing what we expect.

“It’s important to note this was not a very large gain that we were expecting,🦄 it was quite a small package that we introduced, but we’re confident that it is generating that load.”

While the new floor is adding load to the car, one theme of these regulations has been how more downforce can upset the han﷽dling of a car.

Ferrari ran in𒁃to thi😼s problem with their Spain upgrade as more “load” resulted in more bouncing in high-speed corners.

Shovlin conceded that this is a “more difficult question” that Mercede✨s need to answer.

"The more difficult question t꧑hat we need to answer is: Is there anything subtle in the handling characteristics that this package might be doing that we haven’t anticipated?” he added.

“That’s quite difficult to assess, because the car will perform differently track-to-track, some tracksಞ it’s been working very well. Other circuits we’ve struggled with the balance of the car regardless of the aerodynamic spec, and yes, the last two races haven’t been as good as some of the one’s that preceded it.

"It may well be that’s just the normal variation from track-to-track, but that’s what we’re going to be looking at over thဣe next few days, and on top of that t👍here are other updates that we’re bringing into the system.

“There’s quite a lot for us to consider, but we do have a lot of data now, and we can go off and use the nexꦰt few days to learn what we can from that.”