In the round-up: Mercedes say a key goal for their future development is addressing their poor performance in slow corners.
In brief
Mercedes focused on slow-corner gains
Mercedes’ head of trackside engineering said “the issues that we are struggling with [in] this update are the same as the ones we were struggling with before,” in a video released by the team. “Where we tend to be weak is in the slow speed corners, particularly the ones where you have got one corner following into another.”
He said the team will prioritise this area of development as their focus shifts to their 2025 car, the W16. “The big focus in these remaining races for us is learning what we can,” he said.
“We are in a position in the championship where we cannot challenge in front of us. It is very unlikely we are going to see any challenge from behind. Our focus has very much shifted to learning what we need to this year to apply to next year in order to get on top of those issues.”
Rovanpera samples F1 car
Red Bull gave World Rally Championship star Kalle Rovanpera the opportunity to drive one of its cars yesterday. After practice laps in a Formula 4 car at the Red Bull Ring the 24-year-old got behind the wheel of a 2012-specification RB8.
World Rally Championship ace Kalle Rovanpera sampled a Red Bull Formula 1 car at the home of the Austrian Grand Prix today.#F1 #WRC pic.twitter.com/SybTGApLkZ
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Hughes leads FE test
Jake Hughes was quickest for Maserati on the second day of Formula E’s test session in Madrid. His fastest time of of 1’28.604 put him less than a tenth of a second ahead of Kiro’s Dan Ticktum.
The event was relocated from Valencia due to the serious flooding in that region last week which claimed over 200 lives.
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