For Mercedes, customers are a resource

The real secret of Mercedes it would lie in the emotional boost and not only provided by the role of reference engineer for Williams, Force India and Lotus.

The head of the power unit department is convinced of this Andy cowell. “Running with the same hardware specification allows us to accumulate more kilometers than the others and thanks to this to have a clear picture of the aspects to be approved and possibly modified during the season – he confided to Auto Motor und Sport – The enormous amount of The data you have can certainly be scary, but it also provides a great advantage. Furthermore, customers can discover problems unknown to us, allowing us to nip future recurrences in the bud."

Speaking instead of the 2015 unit, the engineer reiterated: “We will certainly assemble it in Australia – he explained – In recent months we have worked on combustion, internal friction and energy conversion, now we just have to decide which configuration to adopt to avoid problems in terms of reliability. With 32 tokens available, the most critical interventions can wait."