The Brackley-based outfit has faced a challenge in dialling out its car bouncing on the straights without compromising performance, with Lewis Hamilton lauding his third place in last weekend’s Bahrain season-opener as the “the best result we could have gotten”.
Mercedes is adamant that once it has a better understanding of what it needs to do to sort the porpoising issue, then it will be able to unlock the full potential of its W13 car.
But despite extensive work in the two practice sessions at the Jeddah circuit on Friday, Mercedes still does not think it has found an answer to eradicate the phenomenon completely.
Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said: “We tried a few more experiments to understand the bouncing issue here, some which made it worse, some which helped, but we don’t yet have a solution to make the problem go away.
“We can reduce this slightly for [Saturday] as it’s affecting the drivers in a few of the corners and costing time.”
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