Ahead of the Australian leg of the championship, experts talked a lot about the difficult situation the Mercedes team found itself in at the start of the season, whose car is clearly inferior to Ferrari and Red Bull in terms of speed.
In particular, it was said that the W13 had two different versions of the rear wing during the first two stages in Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia, but both caused too much drag, but for the Australian Grand Prix the team is preparing a different version of the rear wing in front. it, on which the main plane of the wing will be noticeably smaller.
However, today, when the Mercedes car was in line of sight of the press in the pits of the Albert Park circuit, the wing on it still turned out to be the same.
“Mercedes did not ultimately bring a lower-downforce rear wing to Melbourne as originally planned,” writes Mark Hughes, technical expert for The Race. “Now it can show up on their car, either in Imola or Miami.”
However, it can be assumed that the team is simply not in a hurry to install an updated version of the wing on the car, and this may happen a little later. But on Friday everything will finally become clear during training.
Source: F1 News
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