Mercedes will continue their recent upgrade push over the coming races after gaining “a tenth or two” of a second per lap to their rivals at Imola.
The team introduced the first part of its latest upgrade in Miami two weeks ago and the rest at Imola last weekend. Technical director James Allison confirmed that will be followed by more parts at this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix and again in Montreal two weeks later.
“This weekend’s stuff was ‘part two’ of a ‘part one’ that arrived in the previous race, and we completed that step in Imola,” he said in a video published by the team.
“I would say based on the race pace that we saw in Imola that we took a gentle step forward. We are several tenths of a second now nearer the front than we were at the start of the year and in Imola itself, we moved a tenth or two nearer to the front. We are pretty happy with that.”
Mercedes made a significant change to the design philosophy behind its new car for the 2024 season. Since introducing it, the team’s priority has been to build on that platform. Allison says further steps will come over the next races.
“It certainly has been a push,” he said. “The factory is really on a war footing at the moment and the reason that upgrade package came in two parts is originally it was slated to arrive in one slab, but we brought forward what we could to get it a little bit quicker. It has been a big old push, and our challenge now is just to keep that momentum coming.
“We have some more pieces for the car, aerodynamic and others parts that will arrive for Monaco, again for Canada and again in the races to follow. We will keep on slogging the assets back in the factory that find the lap time to design them, build them, get them out on the car and hopefully just force our way up the grid.”
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