The first two stages were unsuccessful for Mercedes, but in a video after the race in Jeddah, chief race engineer Andrew Shovlin said the team is doing everything it can…
Andrew Shovlin: “We have gathered information during the tests in Bahrain and during the last two Grand Prix. After analyzing this, a plan was developed for the free training in Melbourne.
A lot of work is being done in the chassis and aerodynamics departments. We will be conducting some experiments in Australia and hope they will help provide a direction for future work.
There are several problems. One of them is oversteer in fast corners, which robs riders of confidence, especially when there are walls nearby. In qualifying the car suffered from rocking. During a race there is more fuel in the tanks and this effect is not so noticeable. And most importantly: the car lacks grip on the road. We will try to sort this all out.
We use different settings for the two machines to compare their telemetry. But problems arose in both, which means the question is more fundamental in nature – and we need to find an answer to it.”
Source: F1 News
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