In the final stage of the year, Mercedes has been content with its pace of development, and will fight for victories. But could they even get a chance against Red Bull in the next races?
Mercedes debuted their revamped car at the Monaco Grand Prix, and ever since then their team has been optimistic and confident. At the Barcelona weekend, they proved that they had made progress with a change of direction with a double podium, and in Canada they confirmed that they managed to finish third on a track that was not favorable to them and stay relatively close. Close to the still dominant Red Bull.
Mike Elliott, who has gone on to become the team’s technical director and become chief technology officer for the entire company, confirmed in his team’s race evaluation video that they were satisfied with the development of the W14 and noted that with more innovations coming in the future, I hope the second half of their season will be similar to last year, when it was not Still a race at the end of the year, they also managed to beat the dominant Red Bull.
“It’s great that we can at least compete for podium places and prove that we can. Hopefully with more improvements we can do even better in the next races, and we are confident that by the end of the season we will be in contention for two wins.”
Elliott said of their team’s goals.
Team boss Toto Wolff announced over the Canadian weekend that two more development packages will arrive over the remaining Grand Prix weekends before the summer break. The one in Silverstone. According to the Austrian, these innovations promise another major advance based on simulations.
In this light, Lewis Hamilton’s statement in Montreal on Thursday took on new meaning. When asked about his home race, the British Grand Prix, in reference to their strong result in Spain, he indicated that he was optimistic about their chances at the Silverstone circuit, which is faster than the one in Barcelona. “I am very optimistic about our performance in the last competition. We were only three tenths behind, and we were three to four tenths behind Max every lap, which is the smallest difference so far this year.”
“And I hope we’ll take it one step further by then. So I’m really hopeful. Maybe it could be a contest where we can really compete with them. But we’ll find out.”
He said about the British Grand Prix.
Elliott confirmed that depending on their form at Barcelona, their car could benefit from and be competitive on the English track. “We have already talked about how difficult Canada is for us, but now it is difficult to speculate, because we also speculated about Canada…” – They hinted that they did not expect such a result in Montreal.
“Anyway, our car is more troubled in slow corners, and it does better on medium-fast and fast cornering tracks. Silverstone can be a good example of this, but Austria doesn’t promise to be that bad either. Let’s hope things work out well.” Alright on both tracks.” – said the specialist in advance.
