Mercedes reveal impact of new floor on lost pace at Zandvoort
James Allison admits c💛onfusion surr🐼ounds Mercedes floor

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes have debated whether theiꦿr new floor impacted a sub-par weekend at Zandvoort.
Toto Wolff’s F1 team arrive at Monza for this weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Pꦐrix h⛎oping to quickly forget what went wrong a week ago.
In the Netherlands, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton declared his weekend was “done” after a poor qualifying before finishing eighth in the grand prix. George Russell was six🐬th and struggl🅘ed with grip.
It ended ꩵa remarkable run of three victories in four grand🐓s prix.
Technical director James Allison said: “It won’t be as s﷽imple as ‘the track doesn’t suit the car’.
“Whether you have a good weekend or not💦, it’s dependant on a huge am✃ount of things. They all need to be nearly dead-on right to get what you’d call the true pace of the car.
“In the run-up to shutdown, we manage🌜d to hit our stride at pretty much e🍸very track.
“In Zandvoort with the weather on Fridღay and the decisions we took overnight, we didn’t get into the groove to get the best from the car.
“Small m♔istakes, small errors in set-up will turn you from competitive to mediocre. It’s tight at the top.
“We didn’t get it right, and had a me😼dio🅘cre result as a consequence.”
Allison was a🌊sked i🅘f Mercedes’ new floor played a role in their lack of pace.
🎉The floor was introduced in Spa then withdrawn after confusing results. It was reintroduced for the🎃 race at Zandvoort.
“The ♚simple answer is: we don’t fully knౠow,” he admitted.
“You can take straightforward measurements - the downforce was there. On 🙈one level, you could take comfort that it worked as expected.
“But a🔜 lot ♚of the pace of the cars this year is how well they handle.
“It’s not just ‘does yo𝐆ur aero package deliver downforce?’ It is ‘does it deliver the balanced car that you need through corners, the balꦍanced car you need from high speed to low speed’.
“We didn’t have a balanced ca♏r. That’s where the pace went.
“Whether it was theไ floor or the aero package? We need to keep an open mind.
“Right now, we know it me🥃asured the downforce. But we don’t know if it delivered balance.”
Mercedes, entering Monza, are fourth i🎃n the constructors’ championship behind Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports 🔜for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.