Mercedes detail ‘very ambitious targets’ for 2024 F1 car with big changes coming
After nearly twℱo full seasons of competitive struggles, Mercedes are set to fundamentally overhaul their car design for 2024 in a💖 bid to get back on level terms with runway F1 leaders Red Bull.
Mercedes’ W14 car has been plagued by handling and balance inconsistencies that have left drivers 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell lacking confidenceꦬ, particularly in high-spe🧸ed corners.
Those weakness🌳es are a major focus in the development of Mercedes’ 2024 challenger.
"We are cha✤nging the car quite considerably for next year," Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Shovlin explained at the Japanese Grand Prౠix.
"Whether or not we can solve all the issues that we've got on the handling, that will depend on𒆙 a number of projects delivering.
"Those projects are underway. They are not complete, but we have got some good directions 𒆙to try and improve that.𒅌”
Shovlin added: “The car will be different. We have made a lot of changes to it but it's very early in the development of th🎃e new car to be able to say we've got it sorte♛d.
"When we launched our best🦹 cars, 2015 or 🐻2019, those years, we didn't know they were going to be great cars when we developed them, you are just working as hard as you can trying to find as much performance as you can.
"On a lot of those cars, we missed targets by quite a chunk in ജterms of performance but what we do know is that if you don't set very ambitious targets, you're prob🔜ably not setting them high enough.”
Shovlin also confirmed that Mercedes will not be “clinging on t൩o any concepts that we’ve had befo꧅re”.
That will come as welcome news to seven-time world champion Hamilton, who has been ‘beating the drum’ to his Mercedes team abo♏ut fixing the problems with their cur🎃rent car.
"I know what ℱthe problem is; it's just getting the guys to make the changes,” Hamilton said in Japan. “I try to argue my point but it is not my job to desig💫n the car.
"I am hopeful they do the job but it is going to take real ꧑changes real quick."
Hamilton168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: paid a visit to s🌟ee Mercedes' design🍒ers during a trip to the factory following the Japanese Grand Prixꦑ.
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