Mercedes was forced to postpone plans to modernize the car and the team brought to Australia almost the same W13 they worked with during the podium in Saudi Arabia.
The car lacks speed, it is very sensitive to pitching at high speeds, and the chassis turned out to be too heavy and the air resistance leaves something to be desired. At the same time, the team is convinced that the W13 has quite a bit of potential, but it will take time to unlock it.
“We are way behind Ferrari and Red Bull. We were probably even more inferior to them in Jeddah than in Bahrain, and we know what this has to do with, – George Russell admitted at a press conference in Melbourne. – But if we manage to handle the car or find a more correct approach to the settings, as in Sakhir, we still lose about half a second or even more. We need to catch up, but this weekend we don’t have any significant new products that would allow us to do that.
This kind of work takes time and I think we need patience and discipline. The backlog is too big and on a budget we can’t just lay around with money and go through trial and error during the race weekends.
We should only deploy updates that we are confident will work exactly as we expect. But before we can be sure of that, there will be several races.
So for now we should aim to show the highest possible results and try not to let any of the rivals from the middle group of teams go through, because now Mercedes is the third fastest. We just need to earn points, but this is the task we will see in the coming races.”
Source: F1 News
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