Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says the team have identified some quick fixes to their car which can be delivered in the coming races to improve their performance.
The team made an unpromising start to the first race weekend of the new season in practice yesterday. Lewis Hamilton believes they are as much as nine tenths of a second per lap slower than pace-setters Red Bull.
The team is examining every aspect of the W13 to improve its performance and has already identified short-term gains it can make with the car, according to Wolff.
“We need to look at every single area on the car – aero, weight, power unit – all of that. In Formula 1 there is never one solution.
“But I think there is low-hanging fruit that we need to tackle for the next races which will improve our overall performance. And then there’s more complex things and we are tackling each of those.”
Mercedes headed one day of testing in the first session at the Circuit de Catalunya. But since the team…