Mercedes have made fundamental changes to their 2025 F1 car in🐬 a bid to iron out the inconsistencies which have afflicted their r𒀰ecent performance.

All of the Silver Arrows ground-effect cars since new refutations were introduced in 2022 have been dogged 🍨by persistent troubles. The W13 was plagued by porpoising and bouncing while the W14 suffered from rear-end handling instabilities.

Mercedes changed design concept for 2024 but despite winning four races, their W15 challenger still proved to✅ be temperamental and suffered from performance fluctuation꧟s which left both drivers and the team baffled.

Mercedes explain changes to W16

💖With the W16, Mercedes say they have changed “every aerodynamic surfa𝓡ce” of the car for the upcoming 2025 season.

The W16 features a new front suspension and further changes under the skin to🍎 “remedy” some of the challenging characteristics of i🤪ts predecessor, the team have explained.

“Being the fourth year of these regulations on the chassis side, the cars are in the more mature phase,” Mercedes technical director James Al﷽lison said.

“Big gains in lap time are hard😼er to come by but we’ve been concentrating on making improvements in the areas that held us back last year.

“Our primary focus has been o꧅n dialling out the W15’s slight reluctance to turn in slow corners, along with the imbalance in tyre temperatures that made 𓆉the car inconsistent from session to session.

“We are pleased with our progress over t🎉he winter and we’re looking forward to finding out where we stack up against everyone else.”

With stable engine regulations in place for 2025 before a major rules rese🐎t in 2026, Meꦚrcedes have placed much of their focus on finding reliability improvements.

“We have been looking at reliability updates, and some calibration upgrades, to deliver robustness, squeeze the last little bits of performance out of the Power Unit and give ourselves the best opportunity this season,” po🅰wer unit boss Hywel Thomas added.

“We’ve made good progress and hopeไfully that can add performance on track.”

George Russell confident Mercedes won’t ‘fall into a trap’

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who has become the team’s de facto team leader following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari, told media including at last week’s F1 season launch event that he is confident Mercedes are “not going to🥂 fall into a trap” wi🎃th their new car.

“I think it’s going to be a significant change this y🔴ear, to be ho🍰nest,” he explained.

“Every year we’ve uncovered a problem, we’ve solve🌠d it and it’s created a new one.

“We’ve probably been a lot more disciplined with every change we’ve 🌠made. We’ve been more thorough than ever in terms of the simulator running, just to ensure that we’re not going t🌃o fall into a new trap.

“And so far it’s a reasonable step. Obviously, you have no idea what everyone else is doing and it’s going ꦬto be quite an interesting season with how people deploy the resource between 2025 and 2026.”

Russell and new teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Antonelli will drive the W16♈ for 💙the first time during a filming day in Bahrain on Tuesday.