F1 | Mercedes, Wolff: “We now have more downforce in high-speed corners”

Looking at the performance, the Mercedes doesn't seem to improve much: even in China, Russell e Hamilton they did not do better than sixth and ninth position, and we must also consider the somewhat similar strategy implemented byAston Martin with Alonso and the damage suffered by Plates, otherwise the two W15s would probably have been at the bottom of the top group. TO Shanghai However, he found himself back in the top positions, even if only in the Sprint, the good Lewis, second behind Verstappen. The car is still difficult to understand, but some improvements, according to the words of the team principal Toto wolff there seems to have been, especially in certain curves with particular characteristics.

“We have more downforce in high-speed corners, this objective has been achieved – Toto told media in China. We were also super competitive in Suzuka in the fast Ss: we went from day to night, the drivers said it was the best car of the last two and a half years. However, we didn't have a great performance in the low mileage corners here in Shanghai. We gained about half a second in the fast corners and lost as much time in the slow ones, and this means that we are back to zero."

“It's something we need to improve, we're beyond the point of understanding. The data is there, we know what it was like to go faster in high-speed corners and we know much more about the W15. Now we just need to have a car that does both, but at the moment we're still not competitive enough."