In the round-up: Toto Wolff says that Mercedes are changing their entire car for 2024
In brief
Mercedes changing ‘literally almost every component’
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says that his team will change almost every part of their car for the 2024 season.
The team finished second in the constructors’ championship last year, far behind rivals Red Bull, after sticking with their ‘zero sidepods’ aerodynamic concept
We are completely moving away from how we laid out the chassis, the weight distribution, the airflow. Literally, there’s almost every component that’s been changed, because only by doing that I think we have a chance. We could get it wrong also.
FIA “pretty strict” on wind tunnel compliance
Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough says that there are robust systems in place to prevent wind tunnel data transfer between them and Mercedes as they used the Mercedes facility during construction of their new wind tunnel.
“The FIA are pretty strict and do a lot of inspections and all that stuff,” McCullough said. “Dominic Harlow comes and visits the teams.
“For us with Mercedes, it is absolutely shut down to one, open to the other. Different access doors, different people running the sessions. So I think from confidentiality things, obviously with the relationship we have with Mercedes it’s very robust from that side. And the FIA, that’s their job to police all that.”
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