The first part of Mercedes’ significant upgrade package has been introduced ꦿat this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.

Headlining their upgrades for the event is a brand new f💛loor.

Listed in the FIA document as “changes to the floor𒅌 roof volume and floo🎀r edge detail” Mercedes are hopeful their new floor increases more load but also to improve airflow to the rear of the car.

Mercedes are enduring their worst start to a campaign since 2011, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s P5 in Bahrain their best result so far.

Since the start of this set of regulations, Mercedes have struggled to get to grips with the a🐭irflow around the floor.

Trackside engineering director And൲rew Shovlin i🎉s hopeful the addition of the floor gives the team a notable step in terms of improving the car’s handling.

"This is mainly just general development," Shovlin said. "We'd originally planned to bring this to Imola, which also has some revisions arꦉound the rear w♉ing and beam wing area.

"But we've done a good job to pull it forward and managed to get two here. We've got one on each c𝔍ar, which is a reasonable step. We've had the same car since the start of the season more or less, so it's good that we can start to bring some more performance.

"Over the next fℱour or five races, there are other developments that we're looking at to try and get the car handling a bit more consistently, and a bit less tricky to work with. But that's all coming in the next few [races].

"We are just behind on development, which is one of the areas we need to improve. Butꦦ also just getting the car to be a bit more versatile across a r♋ange of tracks will be a very important focus for us."

Giving his view on the upgr♎ades, Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz commented: "We do have some more upgrades on the W15.

"They are looking for more downforce from a new floor. They als🌌o have new cooling louvres like the McLaren for the local conditions here in Miami.

"Significantly, they also have a new front wing. It reduces the front-wing downforce load and that is allowing them to run a lower-down📖force rear wing, which is especially important on this Miami circuit and its long straights."