Toto Wolff says Mercedes avoided ‘nasty surprises’ with Monaco GP F1 upgrades
A heavily-revised W14 - featuring a new sidepod design - made its first appearance in Monaco after the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, where the package was originally mean🌃t to be introduced, was cancelled due to deadly flooding in the rꦦegion.
Monaco 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 package in Monaco, he ♑was pleased the team did not experience any unforeseen troubles.&nb🌼sp;
“It is impossibꦆle to evaluate our upgrades on a circuit 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 Barcelona, where Mercedes hope to properly ev𒆙aluate their updated 2023 challenger at a more conventional track.
“Spain will provide an opportunity for us to establish a new baseline with the W14,” Wolff continued.💛
“It 🉐is a track that we are familiar with, although the removal of the final chicane will make it a much quicker lap.
“It comprises a wide 💫range of corner types; that provides a good opportunity for us to learn about the new package.
“We don’t expect♑ to see a step change in performance, but we’r♛e hopeful it will provide a more stable platform.”
Me🐟rcedes technical director James Allison confirmed the team will c🉐ontinue their aggressive upgrade push by bringing new parts to Barcelona.
“We certainly will settle back and look at what the Monaco upgrade package has brought us𒉰 at a more normal track, but we will also push on in parallel wiꦰth a whole bunch more things,” Allison said in Mercedes’ post-Monaco debrief.
“So, there will be a ܫlittle bit we’re bringing to Barcelona and many more thing🍎s 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’s jusꦺt too slow a way of going ahead, so the upgrades 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 summer break and beyond.🌠”
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