Toto Wolff says another difficult weekend for Mercedes in Miami still gave them “answers and indications” about where to go with the W13.
And that the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona, scene of the opening unofficial pre-season test, is an ideal place to now try out those potential solutions.
Although Mercedes finished a respectable fifth and sixth in Miami, not for the first time this season they scored more points than perhaps they should have done given their struggles with the car.
Wolff, however, still thinks the eight-time consecutive Constructors’ champions deserved to have only Ferrari and Red Bull ahead of them and that contrasting bouts of fortune had contributed to George Russell and Lewis Hamilton finishing P5 and P6 respectively.
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“With the third quickest car underneath us, we extracted the maximum points possible in Miami,” said Wolff in the team’s Spanish Grand Prix preview.
“Considering George’s start position (P12), it was a great recovery drive helped by when the Safety Car was deployed. But the timing was unfortunate for Lewis, who was strong all weekend and on course to score P5 without the neutralisation of the race. I’ve no doubt over the course of the season, a little luck will eventually go his way.
“During Friday practice, the car showed flashes of its true potential. We continued experimenting with set-up, fitted some new components and that’s provided us with answers and indications of which direction to go in.”
There have been suggestions that if things do not improve, Mercedes may have to abandon their zero-pod design of the W13 as they try to eliminate the ‘porpoising’ that has been such a feature of their campaign so far.
“A huge amount of hard work has been going on in the factories to unpick the data from Miami and turn it into improvements…
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